There’s been greater than a bit of expectation round how Tiffany & Co would do males’s watches since its acquisition by LVMH. We received a glimpse into the longer term with the corporate’s preview at this 12 months’s LVMH Watch Week in Milan, with highlights together with the brand new 40mm chronograph Timer and the Eternity Baguette.
The Tiffany Timer, with baguette-cut diamonds as hour markers
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A 60-piece restricted version cased in platinum with an El Primero chronograph motion from Zenith, the Timer’s therapy blurs any sense of boundary with the jewelry watches, and never simply because the hour markers are baguette-cut diamonds. The dial is Tiffany blue, utilized in 15 layers of lacquer, and there different touches linking the watches to the jewelry collections, together with a faceted crown designed to recall the six-pronged Tiffany setting for solitaire rings. The winding rotor seen by the caseback, in the meantime, is a stylised Chook-on-a-Rock motif linking the watch to Jean Schlumberger’s iconic design for the home.
The small dimension of the version means that it’ll possible be snapped up quick by present purchasers.
The Sixteen Stone Mom-of-Pearl watch
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Extra immediately impressed by Schlumberger’s authentic design, the Sixteen Stone Mom-of-Pearl watch, additionally proven in Milan, references the cross-stitch motif, a nod to the designer’s heritage in textile manufacturing. The dial includes a central mother-of-pearl disc encircled by an outer ring crafted from yellow gold stitches and adorned with 24 spherical sensible diamonds that rotate freely in response to the wearer’s actions; making these stitches includes a meticulous course of spanning 25 hours, together with precision mould-making and hand-polishing every gold sew.
Housed in a 36mm white gold case, the watch is snow-set with 413 diamonds, whereas the caseback bears a sunburst engraving taken from the Schlumberger Floral Arrows brooch. It’s paired with a Tiffany Blue alligator strap, mounted with a diamond-set white gold buckle.
Tiffany’s precedence is firmly on the jewelry for now, however with a back-catalogue so stuffed with design gems, our watch expectations are excessive.
