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      10-31-2013, 11:39 PM   #9
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Saw this on kickstarter.com and I immediately ordered one. Thought it was really cool that they are incorporating stone with metal. Im getting the Granite one from the Infinity collection.

Anyway here is the link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...eel-w?ref=live

what do you guys think?
Not stone, mind you, but yet another concept sort of watch. Gustafasson & Sjogren do something to the metal to make it look like wood.








There's also a company that makes affordables using cement for the case and dial, but rubber for the strap.

Stone as a band material doesn't sound comfortable at all. Did you buy one? Is it pleasant to wear? My sense is that the more traditional take -- to use stone - for the dial is going to be more practical, but it's certainly not as innovative. Here are some examples. The case on these is 6.6 mm. (green = malachite; blue = lapis lazuli, which is just fun to say if nothing else. LOL)




And then there's the uber- traditional use of stone, or more appopriately, stones:



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