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Swiss Watch brands known for crafting the best ladies watches, flaunted their newest scintillating jewelled watches at SIHH 2015, Geneva watch fair. Here’s a low down of the most commendable transformative jewellery timepieces.
1) Audemars Piguet 2015 Jewellery Watch for Ladies: Diamond Punk
It’s amazing how Audemars Piguet innovates with utilitarian shapes that become a hit among watch lovers, every time. Audemars Piguet intricately-shaped, octagon, Royal Oak watches are the most successful octa shape watches of all times. For women, Audemars Piguet has made the same watch design in smaller dials for women. In 2015, this changes. Audemars Piguet introduces a new design that fulfils the basic task of telling time with much style. A hidden dial with a slider door and a body covered in 7848 diamonds!! Wait, there are more diamonds on the dial. The clean-cut geometrics of a cuff bracelet, is expertly engineered as a piece unique of 56 dazzling pyramid facets. Beneath a secret sliding cover, the cool beauty of the dial is revealed : set with a further 300 diamonds.
The design of Audemars Piguet diamond watch is inspired from the Punk Era. Watch it in action here
2) Roger Dubuis SIHH 2015 Ladies Watch: Excalibur Broceliande
Roger Dubuis has taken a good deal of effort to make a women’s watch that is not just intricately ornate with gems but also technically advanced than most women’s jewelery watches. The Excalibur Creative Skeleton Brocéliande powerfully yet delicately evokes the way in which the foliage of this evergreen plant subtly coils around its host in a symbiotic and almost fusional relationship.Decorative jewellery elements are cleverly entwined with the skeleton flying tourbillon movement and the dial, to the point where they become indistinguishable from each other. Skeleton flying tourbillon RD505SQ movement is what powers this beautiful creation.
3) Jaeger Le Coultre 2015 SIHH Ladies Watch: Rendez-Vous Moon
A moon phase watch accompanied with hours and minutes. The Jaeger Le Coultre 2015 ladies watch Rendez-Vous Moon watch opens up a new chapter in the catalogue of watch complications for ladies. Equipped with a wide moon phase indication, it seduces thanks to its great legibility and its femininity, expressed by a mother-of-pearl moon display. A mysterious hand in the form of a star subtly indicates the chosen time for your next rendez-vous. The 39 mm white gold case is complimented with satin strap.
4) Piaget Ladies Watch SIHH 2015: Traditional Oval Watch in Gold
This is a gold ladies watch, I would love to own. It is the most beautiful, sophisticated, elegant gold diamond watch I have seen, thus far. The Piaget gold oval dial watch has just the right amount of diamonds and will fit, perfectly on my tiny wrist.
To highlight the jewellery dimension of this Piaget ladies watch 2015 , a silver-toned oval dial radiating absolute purity beautifully offsets the line of diamonds adorning the bezel. Claw setting enables each stone to play a seductive game with light. Elegance, beauty and refinement: the Piaget traditional oval watches in white or rose gold.
The bracelet is fitted directly to the case so as to form a single case and bracelet ensemble.
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