An exotic new watch made of dinosaur dung and toad skin offered by a Swiss luxury watchmaker comes with a whopping price tag: $11,290, according to the Associated Press.
"This dial is shit, isn't it?" asks the company's press materials for the watch, called the "Coprolite," which means fossilized animal dung.
"A relic of the Jurassic period, it has taken millions of years for this organic substance to embrace its present warm and matchless tints," states the press release from Artya, sounding like something out of a J. Peterman catalogue parody ala Seinfeld. "In its mineral aspect, it forcefully underscores the pristine strength emanating from the very dawn of life."
The coprolite used the make the watch dials came from a plant-eater that died about 100 million years ago in what is now the United States, designer Yvan Arpa told the Associated Press.
The strap for the Coprolite watches is made with the blackened skin of American cane toads. In live cane toads, the skin is toxic and can kill if ingested.
Coprolite in its natural state.
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Some people have waaay too much money, much more than brain cells.
So this watch is a bunch of cr*p. lol
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