Here’s a list of ‘watch-art’ from SIHH 2015. Watches that are as complex on the outside, as on the inside. Quirky shapes, striking designs and some so technically advanced, that they are more likely to occupy space in a museum, than on your wrist.
Unusual shape watches : Bugatti Watches, Cartier Crash Skeleton and Cadena Watch by Van Cleef Arpels
Van Cleef Arpels SIHH 2015: Ladies Cadena Watch 2015
‘Cadena’ means ‘lock’, in French. Legend has it, that this watch-design was suggested by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the early 20th century. The first Cadena watch was brought to life in 1935. Van Cleef Arpels watch’s lock mechanism is not the only aspect unique to it. It’s dial is placed in way to allow, only the wearer to read time.
In the picture above, left side shows the Cadena watch from the 1930s and on the right is this year’s new launch from Van Cleef Arpels SIHH 2015.
Cadena Watch with lock for ladies circa 2015 is identical to its first ancestor. The latest Van Cleef Arpels watch is flushed with diamonds. Covered completely in different shapes of the colourless stone, the Cadena now comes in white gold and yellow gold. Diamonds in serti neige style setting, illuminate the case, clasp and dial of the SIHH 2015 unusual shape watch.
SIHH 2015 Unusual Shape Watch: Cartier Crash ‘Skeleton’ Watch
The Cartier Crash Watch is popular for the story of its evolution. The first crash watch was introduced in 1957, in London. It’s design, inspired from a Cartier watch that was damaged in a car crash. Cartier Crash watches have been produced before in different styles, but the one launched this year is the most advanced of them all. The entire movement is redesigned and restructured, to be shown as ‘art in motion’, in the dial. Calibre 9618 MC with manual winding, powers the watch and can collect 3 days of power reserve.
Look closely and you will realise that the skeleton on the 2015 Cartier watch is made of oversized roman numerals.
SIHH 2014 Parmigiani Bugatti Watches 10th Anniversary: Bugatti Revelation, Bugatti Mythe & Bugatti Victoire
Parmigiani completed 10 years of its partnership with super-car maker, Bugatti, in 2014. The watch brand engineered 3 exhilarating Bugatti watches to commemorate this feat.
All three are reminiscent of the first Bugatti 370 watch, the first Bugatti watch produced in 2004. Bugatti Watches 10th anniversary are Bugatti Revelation, Bugatti Mythe & Bugatti Victoire.
The unusual shape of the Bugatti watches ar designed to resemble a block of car engine, tubular shape. The wearer of the Bugatti watch can observe every minute detail of the 337 components comprising the engine block on his wrist thanks to the six sapphire crystals that surround the piece. These crystals mostly have a shape known as “warped”, which follows the contours of the movement without corresponding to a pure geometric formula. The production of these atypical sapphire crystals is unusually complex.Worn like a block of engine on the wrist. tubular shaped movement. This watch was first engineered in 2004 when Parmigiani made the first unusual shaped watch, Bugatti 370.
