I am not a huge fan of Romain Jerome watches since their style isn’t to my liking but I do like the concept of their DNA series. The ones pictured above are part of the Romain Jerome Titanic DNA collection in which they’ve used steel from the actual Titanic wreck fused with steel from the shipyard in Belfast where the ship was built nearly a hundred years ago to create the rusted watch bezel. You’re literally wearing a part of history on your wrist. They have other DNA collections like the moon dust series in which the watch dial contains mineral dust from the moon while the steel contains fragments from the Apollo XI spacecraft. They even have a Eyjafjallajokull Volcano DNA watch!
Anyway while I was walking through Salhiya on my way to Leila for lunch I spotted the Titanic DNA series in the display window of a shop called Ghaddah in front of LV. I had only seen them in pictures before so it was cool seeing them live. I went in and asked their starting price and if anyone is interested they start at KD3,800 which isn’t too bad considering. Turns out Ghaddah is also the dealer for Richard Mille, now those are watches I really like…
4 replies on “Romain Jerome – Titanic DNA”
every time I hear the word Titanic, I always remember the clip from Ghostbusters 2 where the ship lands back in NY and the ghosts of the crew start unboarding the ship!
Classic!
Mark, 2 things you need to correct:
“part of history on your wrisy.” lol it rhymes at least.
“KD3,800 which isn’t too bad considering.” considering what?
And btw, you still haven’t responded to my emails over the past 2-3 days man, what’s going on?
Titanic DNA…
Now thats both intriguing and spooky… i would love LOVE LOVE to get a watch with some thing as historically amazing as steel from the wrecked Titanic retrieved fronm the depth of the ocean…
but again i would always be spooked since i would have the feeling that its cursed… so much pain and misery and the titanic itself was said to have been cursed… crazy? Maybe but i am not sure i would love having a piece of metal that had seen so much misery and loss of lives… stupid? You bet but still spooked… bad energy and all that…