Wearing a Piece of the Titanic
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 09.29.07
Not that you've probably ever given it any serious consideration, but how would you feel about owning a piece of the Titanic - to tell the time? Yes, taking the principles of reuse and recycling to new heights, a Switzerland-based watch company - Romain Jerome - is planning on using steel taken from the actual vessel to craft a set of 2,012 limited edition Titanic DNA Watches. Furthermore, the watches' dial faces will be coated with black lacquer paint - whose main ingredient consists of coal from the ship.
They will be made available on (conveniently enough) 2012 to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the Titanic's sinking on April 14, 1912. No pricing is as yet listed, but you can bet these watches won't come cheap. Talk about gimmicky... not to mention inefficient (just imagine the amount of energy it takes to extract the necessary components).
Via ::Groovy Green: Titanic Being Recycled, Turned Into Watches (blog)
See also: ::Dematerialized Designs: Make Your Own Watch, ::Fossil Kinetic Watches: Never Change a Battery Again
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Is it waterproof?
All reason and logic aside... there is probably some kind of curse that will be associated with those watches. None for me thanks.
This is not recycling, this is grave theft (and do you imagine how much CO2 is produced by sea vessels to get it from deep?).
Right.... because diving to the bottom of the Atlantic is more environmentally responsible than, you know, reusing the metal from a can of beans.
Come on treehugger. Don't try to sell me this crap.
Gravy robbery or total con job? You be the judge.
"Yeah, this black paint, made from real Titanic coal! We swear on their graves that we robbed. If you don't believe us, go check for yourself."
Next year you can add to your collection with a Bismark Braclet, make from recovered shell casings from that famous German Battleship. We will then complete the collections with Hood hoodies made from recovered blankets from the HMS Hood and her heroic final battle with the Germans.
Our next adventure is off to Norway to recoever material from the K-278 Komsomolets...
-Lego
"Is it waterproof?" And does it come with a lifeboat?
Come on guys, look at the post:
"Talk about gimmicky... not to mention inefficient (just imagine the amount of energy it takes to extract the necessary components)."
Treehugger knows quite well that this is a silly ploy to get people's hard earned $$$. I just can't beleive they had the cajones to do that.
is it icebergproof ?
haha waterproof then maybe theirs some watches that are still brand new lookin in that ship
haha waterproof then maybe theirs some watches that are still brand new lookin in that ship
Hope it' s a joke! It' s a tomb and a monument. No one can touch it!