UNDER THE RADAR

Beyond the Serpenti, Tank, and Constellation, these collections are also setting high benchmarks for women's watches

- by Preetika Mathew

Arnold & Son

PERPETUAL MOON 38

The brand's three watchmaking pillars focus on Chronometry, World Time, and Astronomy, and part of the third is the Perpetual Moon 38 sub-line of women's watches. Characterised by a large moonphase, the most popular complication in women's watches, these timepieces feature oversized moons that wax and wane across a large window between 10 and 2 o'clock. Combining astronomy with artistry, Super-LumiNova", hand-painted constellations, materials like mother-of-pearl, aventurine, and ruthenium, gemstones, and decorations are key elements of the collection. The watches are all driven by the smallest movement in the brand's arsenal, created especially for this line, the A&S1612 calibre, which measures 29.4 mm.

Moritz Grossmann

TEFNUT LADY, TWIST, AND JEWELLERY

Named after the Egyptian goddess associated with fertility, the 36 mm Tefnut line is essentially a collection of dress watches for women, where the Lady sub-line is characterised by slender, hand-finished design like guilloché patterns across a mother-of-pearl dial and diamonds on the bezel, and driven by the manually wound Calibre 102.0 movement. Innovation in the Twist line comes by way of the strap winder, which makes it possible to wind the watch with a few turns of the strap attachment at 6 o'clock. The dial is once again characterised by radial guilloché, though this sub-line has a small seconds indicator and diamonds set on the rehaut. The jewellery versions interpret themes like One Thousand and One Nights and Sleeping Beauty on the dial, along with more pronounced gem-setting.

Vacheron Constantin