Watches Made from Titanic's Hull Sell for $150,000

The watches made from the doomed Titanic are going up on sale for up to £75,000 (nearly $150,000), they are made from the hull of the Titanic. The coal which was recovered from the seabed has been mixed with ceramics to create black dials for the watches. Titanic lies 12,500 feet under the North Atlantic Ocean where it sank after it hit an iceberg killing 1,500 passengers. The metal from its hull was salvaged by divers and then blended with modern ship building steel to make the casing of these special watches.

The coals that were used in Titanic's furnaces were also salvaged from the seabed, which was then mixed with ceramics to create black dials for the watches. Romain Jerome SA, the Swiss company, is making these limited edition watches of 2,012 in numbers, a reference to the year 2012, and the 100th anniversary of Titanic's disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Swiss company also is giving the watches a unique rusted appearance using the Oxidization techniques at a lab in Switzerland. Significance is the new alloy; new steel and the old tarnished metal have been blended at the same shipping yard, Harland and Wolff shipyard at Belfast, where the original Titanic was built.

However, not everyone is happy with the Titanic watches; many of the Titanic enthusiasts have criticized them as a bad taste. The Titanic remains should be in the Museum not in the watches and sold for profit.

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Yvan Arpa, chief executive of Geneva-based Romain Jerome, said:

"We wanted to make a watch that had history and this is the rarest, most historical metal we could get hold of."

He said he got the idea, when he saw a piece of Berlin Wall on a mantle piece at a friend's home. He then decided to do the same with Titanic's parts in the form of watches.

Arpa said this watch will give people a chance to carry a piece of history with them in their wrist. Not everyone will be able to afford this because of its limited availability and the other reason, the prices of the watches, which ranges from £4,500 ($9,000) to £75,000 ($150,000) based on materials used, steel, silver or gold with diamonds in it.

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