Some time over the rainbow…
Winter is over but Spring seems to have lost its way... Through our compilation of the most colorful timepieces we aim to bring you a little bit of sunshine.
By Eléonor Picciotto
April showers bring forth May flowers. Or at least we hope! Lacking of Vitamin D, colors are fun and at least make us happy.
A fireworks of colors…
The only visible edges of Jacob & Co.’s brilliant Flying Tourbillon timepiece are to be spotted on the stones…and only them. The rounded case is covered up with baguette-cut diamonds and multi-color sapphires. Same with the paved dial, invisibly set with 403 stones in a rainbow hue of colors. 47 millimeters of sparkle with deep blue thin hands indicating the hours and minutes under which we glimpse on a one-minute flying tourbillon with a 100 hours power reserve. A fireworks of horological colors!
Corum went crazy with a multi-color version of the Billionnaire tourbillon. The recipe of the concoction comprises three gem-setting techniques with 782 diamonds including 124 baguettes, 20 sapphires, 9 tsavorites, 7 amethystes, 5 rubies and 3 aquamarines representing the hours as roman numbers. Not to forget the minutes and small seconds with the tourbillon cage and of course, a tourbillon. The aerial movement with sapphires bridges and plate requires a high degree of precision the same degree required for the gem setting. A work of art in all transparency.
With colors, it’s never over!
Rolex spiced its reputation up and moved from being classic to bling! With a new 3235 caliber, the latest Oyster perpetual pearl master keeps a 39 mm diameter in yellow or white gold. The bezel is set with colorful baguettes cut sapphires named after the color of the dial : cognac, red grape or olive green respectively following an orange to yellow; purple and pink or blue to green gradient. The golden hours markers in addition to the 3, 6, an 9 are paved with diamonds. With a 70 hours of power reserve, the date and second-hand are the single complications of a shining piece.
Without stones, Louis Vuitton illuminated Baselworld 2015 with the Escale Time Zone- a more accessible version of the Escale World Time launched a year before. A traditionnal GMT function with a second timezone on a dial color-stamped by hand through a silicon coated rubber.
If you have a hard time choosing which one suits you best, pick them all (colors) and shine with one (timepiece)…