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Mark Zuckerberg Wears ₹2.1 Crore De Bethune Tourbillon
Mark Zuckerberg was recently seen wearing a very expensive blue watch.
The watch is called the De Bethune DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon.
It costs about $225,000, or ₹2.1 crore.
Blue is meaningful to Zuckerberg because he has red-green colour blindness.
He has said that blue is the colour he sees most clearly.
The watch gets its blue colour by heating its metal parts, not by painting them.
Its special tourbillon rotates once every 30 seconds.
The watch is small but contains a complicated hand-wound mechanism.
It can keep running for five days when fully powered.
Mark Zuckerberg was seen wearing De Bethune’s DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon at an event discussing Meta’s Muse AI system.
The watch retails for $225,000, or approximately ₹2.1 crore.
Its blue appearance has a personal connection to Zuckerberg, who has red-green colour blindness and sees blue most vividly.
The watch uses heat-blued grade 5 titanium rather than chemical coatings to create its changing blue finish.
Its 38.7mm case houses a 30-second tourbillon, a 5Hz movement and a five-day power reserve.
- Who
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and independent Swiss watchmaker De Bethune.
- What
- Zuckerberg was seen wearing the $225,000 De Bethune DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon.
- Where
- When
- Recently, at an event where Zuckerberg discussed Meta’s Muse AI system.
- Why
- The watch’s blue colour has a personal connection to Zuckerberg because he has red-green colour blindness and sees blue most vividly.
Key facts
- Watch
- De Bethune DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon
- Price
- $225,000, approximately ₹2,15,85,487.50
- Case
- 38.7mm wide and 8mm thick
- Material and finish
- Grade 5 titanium with heat-blued metal components
- Tourbillon rotation
- One rotation every 30 seconds
- Movement
- Hand-wound DB2009V7 operating at 5Hz
- Power reserve
- Five days
Quotes
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder, quoted in a 2010 The New Yorker profile
“Blue is the richest colour for me; I can see all of blue,”
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Sources
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