Precious Craft

These artisanal timepieces showcase the best of maisons who have mastered age-old techniques in the creation of their objets d’art.

- Kenneth Tan

HARRY WINSTON

TRAVEL TIME

Harry Winston’s roots in high jewellery has birthed this year’s scintillating objet d’art - an 18-carat white gold case suffused with blue aventurine. Measuring 66mm when closed, this timepiece becomes fairly portable as an alarm and desk clock. It deserves its pride of place for a phenomenal amount of savoir faire invested by Harry Winston, with the jeweller’s touch on corners adorned by four large blue sapphires and a frame of double-row brilliant-cut diamonds. A total of 64 brilliant-cut sapphires ring the dial in an emerald-cut shape – the favourite cut of the King of Diamonds – and two crowns allow for ease of setting: one for the time and date, and the other for the alarm. www.harrywinston.com

CHOPARD

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