Prestigious timepieces

Time passes but not the desire to measure it, count it meticulously, because each moment is precious and meant to be experienced to the full. The great watch makers ingeniously craft their products with skill, technology and design, capturing time with increasing precision, producing pieces for every day, but above all evoking dreams and voyages. Making dreams come true is the timepiece from Van Cleef & Arpels, “Lady Arpels Heures Filantes Poetic Complication“, a limited edition which, with a shower of shooting stars, reveals to the wearer the number of shooting stars to see in the sky. The allure of this watch is its white gold case and manual-wind movement with Agenhor module and blue alligator strap with white gold and diamond buckle. The “Happy Sport Medium Automatic“by Chopard, instead, radiates light from the guilloché silver-toned centre, reflected in the mother-of-pearl dial, which is embellished with diamond markers and seven moving diamonds. These are echoed by the 18 carat white gold case covered in brilliant-cut diamonds. The refined artisan details of the special limited edition of 20 examples of the “Lange 1 Tourbillon Handwerkskunst“by A. Lange & Söhne are stunning. It has 38.5 mm platinum case and black enamelled main dial, which highlights the mirror-polished markers and hands in rhodium-plated gold. The tourbillon bridge, with black polished finish, is also striking, and the black sub-dial for the small seconds, made of solid silver, is slightly sunk into the main dial. Adventure lovers will not be able to resist the retro appeal of the “Royal Oak Offshore Chrono Safari“by Audemars Piguet, which is inspired by safaris and features a brown alligator leather strap with cream-coloured stitching, and an ivory dial. Dedicated to men of action, it has a robust stainless steel case with khaki-coloured tones, screw-down bezel, black ceramic buttons and is impermeable to 100 metres. Also dedicated to travel is the “Traveller Large Date, Moon Phase & GMT, Limited Edition Traveller John Harrison“by Girard-Perregaux, a tribute to John Harrison, which is produced in rose gold in a limited series of 50 pieces. This timepiece, with a diameter of 44 mm and crocodile strap, offers useful functions for travellers. The dial is engraved with a meridian which passes across the moon phase window. Vivid red is used to mark out Great Britain, John Harrison's mother country, which imposed the Greenwich Meridian as the standard time reference for the entire world. Another ideal travel watch is the Ralph Lauren Sporting Collection “Black Safari Flying Tourbillon“, 45 mm of black steel with hours and minutes function and flying tourbillon. Decorated with Côtes de Genève and other particular features, it has an automatic mechanical movement with 3N gold-plated rotor made in Switzerland and a RL167 calibre, 13

1 ⁄ 4’’ with 28 rubies, steel case with a diameter of 44.80 mm, crown bearing the logo and initials RL, dial with external decoration in brown elm burl wood, Roman numerals, black hands in the form of a sword and black alligator leather strap. Allowing travellers to pass from one time zone to another is “Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller“by Rolex, which features a dual time zone with simultaneous display of local time via centre watch hands and reference time via an off-centre disc. A fixed red disc points to the reference time of the wearer of the watch. The disc’s 24-hour display allows travellers to clearly distinguish daytime hours from night-time hours in the distant time, while the months are indicated inside twelve small windows on the edge of the dial. With a more retro design, instead, is “Venturer Tourbillon Dual Time“by H. Moser & Cie., which was inspired by traditional pocket