This watch is made from melted down guns

The metal case on a new watch might have once been part of an AK-47 owned by a gang member in El Salvador The watch, made by the Swedish brand Triwa , is the first product to use a new material branded as Humanium –a metal made by melting down guns that have been confiscated by police . “The watch industry is very focused on precious metals and status, and we saw with this metal we could use the symbolic value of a watch for something bigger,” says Ludvig Scheja, cofounder and creative director of Triwa. The material is made by an international nonprofit called IM Swedish Development Partner, which collects government-confiscated guns, melts them down, and smelts them into steel bars While in the past the remnants of old guns might have been sold as low-value scrap metal, or even dumped in the ocean as waste, two Swedish creative agencies suggested. Source