保持Time in Fashion
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Photo courtesy of Rolex1/9Rolex
The Oyster Perpetual Day-Date, $127,850, from Rolex (www.rolex.com; 800-367-6539), has a bezel set with 52 diamonds and a pavé diamond dial.
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Photo courtesy of Cartier2/9Cartier
Animal motifs have figured heavily in the design vocabulary at Cartier (www.cartier.com; 800-227-8437). For a watch, $156,600, in its Le Cirque Animalier de Cartier Collection, a panda has been rendered in black sapphires and diamonds.
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Photo courtesy of Rolex3/9Rolex
The women’s Cellini Orchid, $67,550, has a total of 141 diamonds.
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Photo courtesy of Piaget4/9Piaget
Some of the 649 diamonds on the face of the Limelight Paris New York Altiplano Double Jeu, $209,100, from Piaget (www.piaget.com; 800-874-2438), compose an image of the Ferris wheel on Paris’s famed Place de la Concorde.
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Photo: Richard Pierce/courtesy of Tiffany & Co.5/9Tiffany Co.
From Tiffany & Co. (www.tiffany.com; 800-526-0649), a cocktail watch, $75,000, “is inspired by the sleek and stylish Tiffany watches of the 1920s and ’30s, with streamlined curves and a multitude of diamonds,” says John Loring, the company’s design director.
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Photo courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels6/9Van Cleef Arpels
Fox Trot, $225,000, from Van Cleef & Arpels (www.vancleef-arpels.com; 877-826-2533), incorporates dozens of diamonds—set in white gold—of varying sizes and cuts. The result is a delicate piece with echoes of the last century.
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Photo courtesy of Patek Philippe7/9Patek Phillippe
To produce one multiple-time-zone World Time, Ref. 5131J watch, $53,700, the artisans at Patek Philippe (www.patekusa.com; 212-218-1240) labor for 21 months, with three months alone spent on the extraordinary enamelwork.
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Photo courtesy of Breguet8/9Breguet
Watchmaker A.-L. Breguet began work on the No. 160—a commission for Marie Antoinette—in 1783 and completed it years after her death. Breguet (www.breguet.com; 41-21-841-90-84) has reproduced it and displays it in a box made with oak from Versailles.
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Photo courtesy of Jaeger-Lecoultre9/9Jaeger-LeCoultre
Jaeger-LeCoultre (www.jaeger-lecoultre.com; 800-552-8463) introduced the company’s first Reverso watch in 1931. The Reverso Grande Sun Moon watch, $20,000, in 18-karat rose gold, is one of its most recent incarnations.
