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Over the Rainbow: Six Sensational Rainbow-Colored Gemstone Watches (slideshow)
By Roberta Naas This year, the watch world recognized the diverse dimensions of its audiences. Not everyone wants a black, white, gray or blue watch – some like their time with an…
By Roberta Naas
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This Gemma Watch by Bulgari is crafted in 18-karat pink gold; the case is set with buff-cut tourmalines, brilliant-cut diamonds and amethysts, as well as snow-pave diamonds. The bracelet feature tourmalines, diamonds, amethysts, emeralds and rubellite beads. Price on request.
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This year, the watch world recognized the diverse dimensions of its audiences. Not everyone wants a black, white, gray or blue watch – some like their time with an explosion of color—even at the highest end of the spectrum. Perhaps more than ever before, brands in all price realms are complying – offering red, yellow, pink, blue, purple, orange, lime green and other color watch straps and dials. This explosion of color, however, is best represented at the very high end of the luxury watch scale, where the finest brands in the world are turning to diamonds and gemstones to speak volumes about color. Thanks to the painter’s palette of hues ever present in nature’s treasures, luxurious time just became more intriguing. Check out this slideshow of six sensation rainbow-colored gemstone watches.
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By Roberta Naas This year, the watch world recognized the diverse dimensions of its audiences. Not everyone wants a black, white, gray or blue watch – some like their time with an explosion of color—even at the highest end of the spectrum. Perhaps more than ever before, brands in all price realms are complying – offering red, yellow, pink, blue, purple, orange, lime green and other color watch straps and dials. This explosion of color, however,
This Graff Butterfly quartz-powered watch is created with 13.64 carats of diamonds and all of the butterflies are created using 22.64 carats of different colored sapphires – all coming together to offer a beautiful glimpse of nature. The bespoke piece can be ordered on request and with different color variations. $125,000.
This Gemma Watch by Bulgari is crafted in 18-karat pink gold; the case is set with buff-cut tourmalines, brilliant-cut diamonds and amethysts, as well as snow-pave diamonds. The bracelet feature tourmalines, diamonds, amethysts, emeralds and rubellite beads. Price on request.
This Chopard Imperiale Joaillerie is a majestic blend of bold look and brilliant hues. The watch is bedecked with 581 baguette-cut sapphires weighing 47.98 carats. The masters at Chopard spent more than 1,000 hours selecting, cutting sorting and setting the stones. A mechanical self-winding movement powers the 18-karat rose gold watch.
From Franck Muller, this Four Seasons Baguette watch features an 18-karat gold case set with more than 4.5 carats of diamonds and baguette-cut sapphires, rubies, emeralds, tsavorites, spessartines and amethysts. In total, there are nearly 400 stones set on the mechanical timepiece. $161,200.
From de Grisogono, this Grappoli S08 white gold watch is fully set with briolette-cut tanzanites, brilliant-cut white diamonds and blue sapphires. The snow-set dial is blue sapphires and white diamonds. The outer gems move with each sway of the watch. It is finished with a galuchat strap. $161,800.
From Jacob & Co., this 18-karat gold Brilliant Flying Tourbillon Arlequino watch is created with 403 baguette-cut gemstones that are invisibly set. It is powered by a manually wound movement with one-minute flying tourbillon. In total the watch features nearly 15 carats of sapphires and diamonds.
