GPHG: the nomirated in the categories Metiers d’art and Petite Aiguille

By: Britta Rossander

The categories Metiers d’art and Petite Aiguille a blessed mix of most things. Romantic enough and then some from Dior and completely crazy from Jacob & Co. Absolutely incredibly well engraved from Bovet and a Muumin watch from Sarpeneva together a rainbow watch for our heroes from Breitling.

Category Metiers d’Art/Artisric Craft

Andersen Genève

“Jumping Hours” a watch for Andersen's 40th anniversary with a dial in 21 carat blue gold with

advanced guilloché decoration in ”Magical Losages” style. On the case back sits a blue gold ring with the engraving “40 years of independent timepiece creation”. The hours are shown in the window at 12 o'clock.

Case in red gold with an alligator strap. It is water resistant to 30 m and 38 mm in diameter. The movement is automatic with 60 hours power reserve.

Price 37 800 SFR.

Bovet 1822

Amadéo Tourbillon Squelette 7 days

In 2013 Bovet presented the Amadéo Fleurier 7-days Tourbillon Squelette. Now a limited edition is launched with an extra dial on the back in aventurine (the picture of it is not ready yet). The skeletonised movement has an extremely refined engraving on the different parts on both sides which can be seen if you turn the watch over, even the case ring and the strap attachments have outstanding engraving.

Case in red gold with a leather strap, water resistant to 30 m, diamater 45 mm, hand winding, 168 hours power reserve.

Limited edition of 50 pieces

Price 247 000 SFR

Dior

The Dior Grand Bal collection's new model Plym has a a surprising mix of precious noble materials and materials straight from nature. The combination of naturally colourful feathers on the oscillating weight against the white mother of pearl disc is fantastic. A proof that skill within Haute Couture, Haute Joallerie and Haute Horlogeri can be used in a lovely combination.

Case in steel and gold leather strap with diamonds 1.0 ct, the movement is automatic with 42 hours power reserve.

Limited series of 88 pieces.

Price 31 100 SFR

Hermès

Arceau into Canadian Wild brings nature into the dial. The motif, with a snowy owl (Quebec’s symbol) flying in the middle of the northern lights (aurora borealis), comes from the scarf from 2017 designed by the British artist Alice Shirley on the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary.

The base for the dial is glittering aventurine on which the different figures have been placed

The watch has an automatic movement, 50 hours power reserve, water resistant to 30 m, moon phase, diamonds 0.63 ct. And a leather strap of course made in-house

Limited edition of 24 pieces.

Price 68 000 SFR.

Jacob &Co

Astronomia sky Phoenix uses astronomical details to show unique sculptures integrated around the four arms in the astronomical movement. It has taken seven months for an artist to create them and the wealth of detail is outstanding.

Case (47 mm) in white gold with a leather strap. The watch has a skeletonised movement, 1 ct diamonds, a manual movement with 60 hours power reserve and a double axis tourbillon

1-piece limited series. Price 900 000 SFR.

Van Cleef & Arpels

Van Cleef & Arpels are known for extraordinary dials and the Lady Arpels Soleil Féerique is a tribute to what they call Astronomi Poétique®. The sky and the spectacle of the stars in a lovely combination where you can also see the passing of time. 

Case in white gold with diamonds (6.62 ct) enamel ”plique-à-jour”, yellow sapphires, lapis lazuli, onyx and grey as well as white mother of pearl. Manual movement with a 40-hour power reserve.

Numbered and limited edition of 3 pieces.

Price 342 000 SFR

Category Petite Aiguille

Bell & Ross

BR 05 Skeleton with an integrated bracelet, a skeletonised dial with indices filled with Superlunimova.

Black ribbed rubber strap, case 40 x 40 mm in steel with a satin brushed surface and a steel bracelet. Automatic movement, water resistant to 100 m 

Limited edition of 500 pieces

Price 6 400 SFR

Breitling

A rainbow in aid of our heroes. All the details about the watch are in an earlier longer post on Eqotime.com

Limited edition of 1 000 pieces.

Price 4 350 SFR.

Habring Chrono Felix Panda

Panda bears are not only the symbol for WWF but also the big attractions in large zoos and this ”Panda” is a new variant of the chronograph that was presented last year with the Habring² A11C-H1 (A stands for Austria and 11 stands for 2011 when the Kärnten family started the development of the movement).

The model has the classic ”Panda look” with two black horizontally placed smaller dials on a white background. Case in steel, strap in leather, manual movement with 48 hours power reserve, water resistant to 30 m.

Price 5 650 SFR

IWC Portugieser Automatic 40

Only a few models are timeless. With the Portugieser IWC created an icon at the end of the 1930s and I have previously described it in the category Icons.

Case in steel with a leather strap, automatic movement with 60 hours power reserve. The diameter is 40,4 and it is water resistant to 30 metres

Price 7 500 SFR

Sarpaneva X Moomin

This year the population of Moomin Valley celebrates 75 years. That it is Sarpaneva who makes a watch out of it is not so surprising. In Finland you can after all sell pretty much anything that has a picture of a Moomin on it, as they say. The Swedish-Finnish illustrator and author Tove Jansson really cemented all Finns' love for the chubby creatures.

Sarpaneva's watch has a skeletonised dial with a lattice ring inside the case ring. Case in steel with a canvas strap, automatic movement with 42 hours power reserve and water resistance to 100 m.

Limited edition of 75 pieces divided into 3 x 25

Price 5 380 SFR.

Trioble Secret

A bespoke watch with a sky where the stars are shown at a time decided by the customer from a decided place. In darkness the luminova-soaked stars shine exactly as they did then.

Three rotating rings show hours minutes and seconds. Case in steel, automatic movement with 48 hours power reserve, water resistant to 50 metres.

Price 9 800 SFR