Sprout Watches: Men's: Sprout: Sprout Watches: Women's: Sprout: Sprout Watches: When you combine the technical expertise of creating timepieces for over fifty years with the invaluable knowledge, passion and creativity its employees possess, you have a pretty special company on your hands. Take that and add a generous dose of environmental awareness and you have Sprout . With one simple question, How can we make a greener watch? Sprout was born. Well, that's the condensed version of the story. The countless hours of research and development, along with an arsenal of lunches eaten while hunched over keyboards was left out because that's not as triumphant sounding. Now, to be sure, there are a fair number of companies out there making claims to be the greenest this or the greenest that. Not so with Sprout. No outrageous claims or anything like that at all. The company simply does what it can to make the most sound and eco-friendly choices as consistently and as often as possible. From utilizing recyclable and recycled materials for packaging to simple things like turning lights and equipment off when not in use, the company seeks out ways to be kinder to the planet. So what about the watches themselves? Here's the eco-friendly fact lowdown: Corn resin is utilized in place of synthetic plastic. All diamonds used are certified and conflict free. Watches containing Mother of Pearl are all declared through the Dept. of Fish & Wildlife and will never be from forbidden or endangered species. Add some organically grown cotton, mineral crystal watch lenses and bamboo and what do you have? You've got a watch that is 80-86% eco-friendly by weight. In a nutshell (or stick of bamboo), that is why Sprout was developed to give you an eco-friendly choice.