This watch is seriously killer.
The new Humanium Metal wristwatch, by Swedish company Triwa, is made from melted-down illegal firearms, confiscated by police in El Salvador.
The watch, which launched Tuesday on Kickstarter, is part of an activist movement to “create fresh metal as a solution to gun-related problems,” Triwa co-founder Ludvig Scheja tells The Post. Fifteen to 20 percent of sales revenues will go to human rights organization IM Swedish Development Partners.
Although the melted-down gunmetal is 99 percent steel, Scheja likes to say the watches “are made from the most valuable metal in the world,” because they’re for a good cause and create jobs in a developing country.
Those jobs include working with the metal alloy, which Scheja describes as “super tricky.” First, firearms are melted down into steel bars in El Salvador. “Then, the bars need to be made into a powder and the powder is used to mold the actual watch.”
The watches are priced at $229 each for early backers on Kickstarter. They feature Japanese quartz movement, sapphire glass and bands of canvas or leather.
Scheja hopes that the mission-driven likes of Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama will one day wear the watch, for which he plans a more commercial production of 5,000 to 10,000.
But if you just want to wear a gun around your wrist, that’s fine, too.
“As long as [people] buy the watch,” he says, “no matter their beliefs, they will be contributing to a good cause.”