PERFECT PITCH

The latest offerings from high-end watch brands are riffs on music, rhythm, and melody.

- Jessica Diamond

Watches and sound: they are inextricably linked. After all, we determine whether a mechanical watch is working by listening to it. A precursor to wristwatches, striking clocks in churches and village squares were an important indicator of time. Today, the process is replicated in miniature in highly complicated timepieces called minute repeaters. Now several brands are expressing their odes to sound in a slew of new watches that riff on music. Bvlgari has dived into the subject with three pieces, including