FOR WATCH FANS WHO ALSO LOVE JEWELLERY
SPARKLING PIECES THAT – HURRAH – ALSO TELL THE TIME
01 CHOPARD HAPPY PALM
Distinguished by diamonds that move freely around the dial, Chopard’s Happy Sport watches were launched 25 years ago, overseen by Chopard co-president Caroline Scheufele. One of the metiers d’art pieces marking this anniversary year is the 36mm watch, Happy Palm, which is made using Chopard’s sustainable Fairmined yellow gold. The watch’s key motif is the Palme d’Or, which was created by Scheufele for the Cannes Film Festival: A mini sculpture of the palm leaf, and diamonds move around against a backdrop of golden leaves created using traditional Japanese urushi lacquering and Fleurisanne engraving.
02 HARRY WINSTON PREMIER WINSTON CANDY
We have seen numerous jewellery watches covered with a rainbow of gemstones, and, trust us – the results are not always pretty. American jewellery brand Harry Winston shows how to do it right with the Premier Winston Candy, an automatic white-gold timepiece lit up by 244 diamonds and coloured gemstones – the latter comprises blue Paraiba tourmalines, green tsavorites, orange spessartites, dark blue and light blue sapphires, red spinels and pink sapphires. The stones are cut in three different sizes and snow-set to show as little underlying metal as possible. It’s defi nitely enough to make one feel like a grown-up kid in a candy store.
03 BULGARI SERPENTI TUBOGAS
Bulgari marks a hundred years of jewellery watchmaking in 2018, and over the century, the house has created some unmistakeable icons – such as the flexible Tubogas bracelet, which was inspired by domestic gas pipes. Updating its tricolour Tubogas bracelets from the 1960s, Bulgari masterfully brings together rose, white and yellow gold in its latest Serpenti timepiece – as well as 38 diamonds that frame the watch face.