The Jurassic Tourbillon watch contains dinosaur bones

18:33 March 10, 2010

Louis Moinet Jurassic Tourbillon

Selling watches is no doubt getting harder these days as their primary function, keeping track of time, is duplicated by another technological item that is becoming ubiquitous – the mobile telephone. In recent times we've seen watches given a point-of-difference by including artifacts from the Titanic and the Moon, and the Louis Moinet Jurassic Tourbillon will feature at Basel in Switzerland this month. The Jurassic Tourbillon's dial contains fragments of authentic fossilized dinosaur bones around 130 million years ago.

As well as this reminder of just how long time has been ticking away, the hand-wound watch sports an 18K white gold case with 56 Top Wesselton VVS baguette diamonds (3.46 cts) on the bezel, a tourbillon cage at 6 o’clock and an indicator for the 72 hour power reserve at 12 o’clock.

The winding mechanism has an “octopus” spring visible on the back and - though it's not the sort of timepiece you'd take swimming - it's water-resistant to 30 m.

Stay tuned for more highlights from Baselworld 2010 throughout the month.

Via Swisstime.

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User Comments (5)

Jean-Claude Biver, the CEO of the Swiss watchmaker Hublot, once said something interesting: he said that watchmakers are now as were the painters when photography was invented.

You are talking about the mobile phone, but quartz watches are also much more precise than mechanical watches, at a fraction of their cost. So watchmakers now make technological jewels where the precision is no longer the main objective ; which apparently works.

The same conspicuous precision can also be seen in other domains, for that matter ; who needs a 1000 HP car?

Gavrilo Bozovic

- March 10, 2010 @ 11:03 pm PST

You are right and a watch like this or a 1000 H.P. car was never about "need" it's just that you can afford it and want it, and I would buy these things too if I could. :-)

mrhuckfin

- March 11, 2010 @ 04:03 am PST

It's about quality and craftsmanship. If you want to wear a pair of Walmart tube-socks with your Italian silk suit that's your choice. I've never needed quartz accuracy in a watch since I'm not doing manual re entry burns or navigating the ocean.

I'll take a Zenith or Omega over a Casio every day of the week.

Robert Browne

- March 11, 2010 @ 11:03 am PST

Because you're going to look silly driving your Bugatti Veyron with a Casio on your wrist.

Robert Browne

- March 11, 2010 @ 11:03 am PST

It's a *MEN'S* watch with *DINOSAUR* bones in it with an *OCTOPUS* spring, sporting a *REPTILE* styled wristband, covered in *fruity* diamonds...

sheesh! Not very rugged or manly if you ask me!

But then again, someone who would spend the money on something like this, is, well...not too manly either!

- March 11, 2010 @ 01:03 pm PST