Watchmaker Richard Mille and the Boucheron company have teamed up to create an alien gadget. A watch made from meteorite fragments and other rare rocks. The RM-018 Tourbillon. It's worth just $1,000,000 and only 30 pieces have been made.
The watch's wheels are from a chondrite meteorite, which arrived on Earth from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. According to Richard Mille, 90% of these stones were broken in their workshop, and the cost of breaking them is one of the reasons that push the price of the watch to $1,000,000.
The gemstones are visible thanks to a synthetic sapphire used to make the top and bottom of the watch transparent. It is eight times more scratch-resistant than stainless steel. The rest of the watch is made of 18-karat white gold.
