Take a look at these seven watches that stole the show at Watches and Wonders 2024
The Hindu
Discover the latest luxury watches showcased at Watches and Wonders 2024, featuring innovative designs and cutting-edge technology.
Horology enthusiasts were looking forward to this year’s edition of Watches and Wonders in Geneva. The fair was bigger in scale, with 54 participating maisons, their retailers, partners, and media. The week-long event, open to invitees only for four days, flung its doors open to the general public during the last three days. Compared to last year, it recorded a 14% rise in footfall, with nearly 49,000 visitors, including 5,700 retailers and 1,500 journalists.
On the Internet, #watchesandwonders2024 shot to popularity on many social-networking sites, clocking an estimated reach of over 600 million, states the event’s official closing report. Supermodel Gisele Bündchen attended the event for Swiss luxury watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen and French footballer Kylian Mbappé made an appearance there for luxury watchmaker from Nyon, Hublot.
We get the lowdown on the watches that are ticking all the boxes of style and functionality and are a hit among watch collectors and followers of the luxury watch industry.
Grand Seiko Caliber 9R 20th Anniversary Limited Edition is a new creation in the Grand Seiko Sport Collection, and it draws inspiration from Shinshu sunrise reflecting off Mount Hotaka, which is situated in Japan’s Hida Mountains and is home to all Grand Seiko Spring Drive creations. The scenery radiates ebullient colours, transforming from pink to orange early in the morning. Marking the 20th anniversary of the first Grand Seiko watches powered by the 9R Spring Drive movement series, the new Spring Drive Chronograph GMT inspired by the mountainous landscape has a new dial-processing technology — called Optical Multilayer Coating — that expresses the Japanese appreciation for the delicate transition of time as seen through the changing colours of summer mornings.
Price: Approximately ₹12,50,000
Paying tribute to Nature, the new creation of Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, the Lady Arpels Brise D’Été watch celebrates the freshness of a summer morning. In this new poetic expression, corollas bloom within the Van Cleef & Arpels garden. White and yellow-gold butterflies rendered in plique-à-jour enamel tell the time, but what adds playfulness to this creative timepiece is the fluttering of butterflies courtesy on-demand animation module, which also breathes life into the flowers and their stems.
Price: Approximately ₹1,35,48,970
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