luxury retailer creates $ 44K shows mammoths

  Here is the latest title-making luxury accessories is: $ 44,000 for a clock from the tusks of mammoths found frozen in permafrost made a real Russian.

Produced by top watchmakers German Lang & Heyne, "Calibre I" is in pink, yellow or white gold and comes in two different styles.

Ivory is used by the defense of a mammoth is said, more than 10,000 years to have lived for both exterior and interior of the Clock.

But if you want a snap, you must act quickly - only 25 of these watches will never be made for the race in a limited series.

Mammoth tusk, as might be expected, the supply is relatively short. Which raises the question: Is it ethical to use the remains of an extinct animal parts for luxury-fashion?

"Of course we mean no harm to elephants," the clock on their website. "The defense of the limited edition of 25 watches come from a mammoth that died more than 10,000 years, surviving on his defense of Russian soil in the permafrost."

What do you think? Would you buy a Clock mammoth tusk, if you could afford it? Who can do it?