I love the design of the original this collection – it is simply
beautiful. Not to mention its adaptation of Perrelet’s unique “double
rotor” system (see the video below) in which
the top-side rotor is in the shape of diamond-lined flower petals. Now,
with this year’s addition of a black and white ceramic bracelet/case
with a black mother-of-pearl dial, Perrelet is stepping it up a notch in
with an even more luxurious and mechanically sophisticated extension of
the collection.
More broadly, I am sensing that ceramic watches will be a hot item
this year, particularly in the ladies segment. While of course there’s
always been the Chanel J12 series setting the standard for the ladies
ceramic watch, not to mention its one-off limited edition pieces such as
the very beautiful and one-of-a-kind J12 Joaellerie as well as the
new and engimatic “concept watch” known as the Chanel J12 Tourbillon
Retrograde Mysterieuse Automatic (see the high res pics and video here),
other brands are emerging with their own and equally impressive ceramic
watches. Perrelet being one good example. Also, I think that the new TAG Heuer F1 ceramic ladies collection will be very well received – the watches look great – you should really take a look if you haven’t seen them yet.
And of course on the men’s side it is more about the ceramic bezel – most recently and notably the
new OMEGA Seamaster Liquidmetal watch, sure to be one of the most
popular watches seen in Basel this year (available first here on
Perpetuelle since Oct’09).
Will we see more new and exciting ceramic watches this year at Baselworld? You can count on it!
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