Luxury watch made from dinosaur crap

Yvan Arpa's coprolite watch is a US$11,290 timepiece with a face made from fossil dinosaur turds and a band made from black cane-toad skin (normally poisonous, rendered inert through processing).

The thing is, coprolites just aren't that valuable. Dinosaurs left behind a lot of crap. This site sells coprolite at $8 per pound (it makes a wicked gift!).

Swiss luxury watch made of fossilized dinosaur feces, toad skin costs $11,290 (Photo) (Thanks, Jonathan!)

• [Anonymous]

  just the thing im looking 4 to complte my set
  http://www.toadfactory.com/toadskincoinpurse.html

• [Beanolini]

  coprolites just aren’t that valuable

  Not that valuable? Have you never heard of the Cambridge coprolite rush?

• [ab3a]

  Working for a water and sewer company, one must maintain a sense of humor. Thus, it should come as no surprise that I have a few turds in my office. One of them is a very real looking plastic intestinal sculpture I reserve for the truly fresh, stupid consultant reports. And another is a coprolite, which I use for the unoriginal stupid reports.

  Most people have no idea what it is, until I point out that it’s a fossilized dinosaur turd. You can clearly see the intestinal ripples in the cross section…

• [dainel]

  If you dig out a something that looks like a lump of stone out of the ground, how do you know that it is coprolite, and not just a lump of stone?

• [Ugly Canuck]

  Now… if that toad-skin watch band were psychoactive (in a psychedelic way) when licked, then this watch would then be a truly weird artifact, instead of just the the strange thing it is now.
  IMHO.

• [mdh]

  apparently you can polish a turd!!!

  • [Anonymous]

    brilliant

• [Mitch]

  If it has a fossilized tomato seed in it I want one.

• [Anonymous]

  Hmm. Must be a Fossil watch.