Turquoise Sterling Silver Inlaid Mens Watch.

This watch is just full of natural character! You'll be checking the time in style with this one on! This watch features a pair of watch tips that were hand cut out of shining sheets of Sterling Silver. The artist used hand cut stones of genuine Sleeping Beauty Turquoise to create a traditional inlaid geometric pattern. Each piece of this high quality Turquoise features a brilliant display of natural blue shades and it natural marbling. A complimentary watch face and an adjustable stretch band have been included for your convenience. These Sterling Silver and Turquoise watch tips are 1-1/8" by 1-5/8". Stamped Sterling. Complimentary watch faces and the marbling of Turquoise stones may slightly vary.

In Indian folklore it is said that there was once a chief with turquoise colored skin. One day he was running from his enemies in the hot desert. Whenever he stopped to rest, his perspiration ran onto the ground, collected in rocks and became turquoise.

There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit.