The Tellurium J. Kepler Watch Is Out of This World - Too Bad It's Also $118,000

Although the psychological motives are not exactly clear, strange and extravagant-looking watches have always exerted somewhat of a strange fascination on the users, whether we're talking about the crazy Japanese binary or LED timepieces or about one of the things you're about to see as follows, namely the uber-classy (but also extremely expensive) Tellurium J. Kepler watch presented by the Ulysse Nardin company.

The time-telling device, whose name is inspired by Johannes Kepler, the 14th/15th-century astronomer who was among the first "scientists" to properly research and document the laws that govern the movement of the planets, works in quite a strange and unusual fashion. Thus, the watch rotates Earth in its true geographical shape seen from above the North Pole, with a flexible spring bending from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn to reveal the part of the Earth lit by the Sun and to indicate the time and place of sunrise and sunset.

Moreover, the moon rotates around the Earth in real time and the included dragon hand indicates the eclipses of the sun and the moon. This perpetual calendar completes one turn each year. The timepiece has a 43-mm diameter and sports a platinum case, with a genuine enamel cloisonn? dial. Moreover, the movement is assured by a built-in UN-87 unit and the device is powered by self-winding, providing users with a 42-hour reserve.

The users can also take a dive with it, as it's water resistant up to 30 meters, but I really don't think that the people who afford to purchase this item will actually do that, considering the fact that the Tellurium J. Kepler includes sapphire crystals and a very expensive (and good-looking) leather strap.

As mentioned earlier, this thing is manufactured in a very limited edition, as there are only 99 units available for the possible customers. However, what remains to be seen is whether the company will actually be able to sell all of the 99 units, considering the fact that the timepieces retail for a whopping $118,000 per unit (damn, one could buy a very nice house AND a car with that kind of money).

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