Dinosaur Watch Will Take a Bite Out of Your Wallet

For the dinosaur lover who has everything, watchmaker Louis Moinet recently debuted the "Jurassic Tourbillon" watch. Said to contain fragments of "authenticated dinosaur bones," this gold-cased, diamond-encrusted watch is meant for high-class buyers with cash to burn (it costs over $140,000!), but I don't find it to be that impressive. I would rather buy a cheap watch that can take a beating while fossil hunting than an overpriced piece of jewelry that may or may not contain actual dinosaur bones.

Not surprisingly, though, with the announcement of the Jurassic Tourbillon other designer watchmakers are jumping on the fossil bandwagon. Among the first of the copycat designs is a watch set in a piece of fossilized dinosaur dung produced by the Swiss company Artya which will retail for about $11,290. I guess coprolites just can't command the same price that dinosaur bone can.

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Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.