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- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted wearing a De Bethune DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon watch.
- This luxury timepiece features a heat-blued titanium finish that holds personal significance for Zuckerberg.
- The choice aligns with his red-green colour blindness, which makes blue the most vivid colour he perceives.
- Zuckerberg previously cited this visual perception as the reason behind the blue colour scheme of Facebook and Meta.
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“Blue is the richest colour for me; I can see all of blue”
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…to be due to his visual issues, other than just aesthetics. Zuckerberg once revealed in a 2010 The New Yorker profile that blue became Facebook’s primary palette because it is the colour he perceives most vividly. " Blue is the richest colour for me; I can see all of blue ," he said. Made by independent Swiss watchmaker De Bethune, the DB28xs Kind of Blue Tourbillon features heat-blued metal, one of its signature design elements, using thermal oxidation to create colour rather than…
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