Luxury watch brands winding up for the holidays: Omega ambassador Nicole Kidman hosted a women in watchmaking party in Nashville while Cartier and Audemars Piguet launched limited-edition timepieces
- Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski, singer Julia Michaels, actor Rob Raco and models Lily Aldridge, Michael Yerger and Karen Elson all attended Omega’s party at the Marathon Music Works
- The Royal Oak Selfwinding is smothered in 800 baguette-cut gems per watch, while the unusually shaped Cartier Pebble uses just a single sapphire
It’s party season for watch collectors and enthusiasts, and two of the world’s most prominent luxury watch brands – Audemars Piguet and Cartier – are celebrating their 50th anniversary by not only releasing a collection of watches, but taking things up a notch with collectible timepieces and limited editions.
Double rainbow: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak
The new Royal Oak Selfwinding is available in not one but two sets of 10 – in 37mm and 41mm – each absolutely smothered in baguette-cut gemstones of a particular hue: about 800 of them per watch. With watches in each set in red, orange, yellow, pink, green, purple and blue, the stones used to decorate them took about a year to select, and include rubies, emeralds, blue sapphires, tanzanites, yellow chrysoberyls, pink tourmalines, amethysts, blue topaz, orange spessartites and tsavorites.
Rock on: Cartier Pebble
Most watches are predictably shaped. That has never been true, though, of the Cartier Pebble. A genuine exception among the codes of luxury watchmaking, it fits a square dial with rounded corners, offset at an angle of 45 degrees, inside a round case that, as the name suggests, takes its design cues from the curves of a pebble.