When watchmakers and jewelers combine their talents, the watch becomes jewelry. Unless, deep down, it’s the opposite?
The passing of time is the only true luxury, and the watches that mark its passage constitute its best incarnation. Precious moments, rare timepieces. At the meeting between the art of watchmaking and that of exceptional jewelry, the Piaget house very early on merged the codes of these two worlds. Supported by the know-how of its manufacture, capable of assembling ultra-thin movements, the creativity and audacity of the house’s jewelers have conquered the world, and not just the wrists. Thus, Piaget’s high jewelry collections give pride of place to precious watches, both on necklaces and cuffs. As evidenced by this spectacular long necklace transformable watch in yellow gold set with a yellow sapphire and a cushion-cut aquamarine, diamonds and malachite and turquoise pearls, matching the dial.
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Likewise between a watch and a timeless piece of jewelry, the line is very thin when it comes to the Queen of Naples, named in honor of Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon and great lover of beautiful watchmaking, she who ordered the very first wristwatch to Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1810. With its soft green Roman numerals transferred onto a diamond-paved mother-of-pearl dial, the Queen of Naples retains the freshness and audacity of the woman who inspired her. What are the true colors of time? Eternal and immortal, diamonds adorn the extraordinary openwork bracelet of the Reflection de Cartier. At one of the two ends of this watch bracelet, the watch head set in an inverted setting is reflected in a mirror. Enough to offer a reverse reading, poetic and mysterious, of time passing….
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Moving pearls and living diamonds
-At Van Cleef & Arpels, we talk very nicely about “jewelry that tells the time “. We could also say that time is a well-hidden secret, which we keep against our heart sealed in a pendant, or even hidden behind a pattern set with precious stones. The Ludo Secret watch reinterprets the famous Ludo bracelet created in the 1930s. Its pink gold briquette links of the bracelet represent a braided belt, of which they have all the flexibility.
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But time is also movement. It took Chopard craftsmen more than eight hundred hours of work to assemble this dazzling flowing cuff made up of 102 gold cubes that seem to collide, enhanced by the brilliance of polished pink gold and 36 diamonds. princess size. Pressing a discreet pusher reveals the dial of the Ice Cube secret watch (5), hidden under a rose gold flap. Finally, time is seductive with the Serpenti Pallini from Bvlgari. Curled around the wrist, its body made of mobile gold pearls and diamonds seems to have a secret life. Hypnotic, the snake with emerald eyes holds time in its mouth, which it opens to reveal a watchmaking marvel, the Piccolissimo, one of the smallest mechanical movements in the world.
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