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Never heard of watches from dinosaur?s excrement"

Welcome to world of Yvan Arpa.
Yvan Arpa ? famous watchmaker, who has shaken up Swiss watch industry with crazy ideas. Sometimes he says that his ideas come from alcohol that?s why it is clear why Yvan Arpa earned the reputation of watchmaking hooligan. Yvan made his debut in the watch industry in 1995, but his name exploded upon the mind of connoisseurs a decade later when he became the CEO of Romain Jerome. Yvan was blessed with the risky and bold idea to transform rusted steel into a noble alloy and sell the corroded metal at the price of gold. It resulted with Romain Jerome Titanic DNA tourbillon watch at a price of three hundred thousand dollars. Yvan launched the “DNA” project after acquiring a 1.5 kilograms piece of the Titanic’s hull from an unnamed seller. According to watchmaker it was recovered in 1991 before the Titanic site was given protected status.
As Yvan was a mathematics teacher, he always thinks if there is a potential for sales when he d...