2024 marks the return of the 12 months of the Dragon. Returning as soon as each 12 years, this celestial creature is related to prosperity and is an emblem of luck, power and knowledge. The dragon can be an imperial icon that embodies life and immortality. In honour of this auspicious creature, LUXUO lists the unique festive releases and dynamic timepieces to usher within the 12 months of the Dragon — from dragon motifs to dragon collectible figurines and each scale inbetween.
Vacheron Constantin
The Grisaille Excessive Jewelry Dragon’s grisaille enamelling approach is objectively uncommon, and is a primary for Vacheron Constantin on this shade of inexperienced. Having mentioned this, the Metiers d’Artwork 12 months of the Dragon items are most likely extra interesting to extra folks, even simply from a visible standpoint.
Piaget’s Dragon & Phoenix Assortment
Piaget’s new Dragon & Phoenix capsule assortment options 10 daring designs of remarkable watches and Excessive Jewelry items – topped off with a pair of extravagantly unique, made-to-order excessive jewelry cuff watches. Every creation brims with emotion and enthusiasm, joyfully channelling the codes of the Maison whereas celebrating the home’s unparalleled watchmaking savoir-faire.
Chopard’s L.U.C XP Urushi 12 months of the Dragon
Chopard’s L.U.C XP Urushi 12 months of the Dragon is an 88-piece restricted version in moral 18-carat rose gold and boasts a 39.5 mm moral 18-carat rose gold case. The in-house L.U.C 96.17-L calibre with micro-rotor ensures {that a} slender profile of simply 6.80 mm will be maintained. It mingles technical savoir-faire and creative aptitude delivered by Chopard Manufacture.
Hublot’s Spirit of Large Bang Titanium Dragon
Drawing inspiration from the normal Chinese language artwork of paper reducing, the Spirit of Large Bang Titanium Dragon layers its palms, wheels and H-shaped screws to type a 3D silhouette of an jap dragon. Created in collaboration with the Chinese language artist Chen Fenwan, this restricted version timepiece of 88 items is the proper fusion of custom and modernity, combining metaphors and symbols within the spirit of Hublot.
Bovet’s Récital 26 Chapter Two Golden Dragon
Bovet’s artisans mixed a creative sculpture with a longtime masterpiece of excessive horology. The Recital 26 Chapter Two Dragon. The result’s a hand-engraved sculpture with a surprising timepiece artwork housing. A domed blue quartz dial shows the native time zone’s hours and minutes within the higher a part of the case. The dome positioned at 3 o’clock shows a second time zone particularly developed for this timepiece and patented by Bovet.
IWC Schaffhausen’s Restricted Version Portugieser Chronograph
IWC Schaffhausen welcomes the Lunar New 12 months with a particular version launch of the Portugieser Chronograph. This timepiece encompasses a 41-millimetre stainless-steel case, a burgundy dial and contrasting gold-plated palms and appliques. Restricted to 1000 items, this watch options its rotor within the type of an impressive dragon, seen by way of the sapphire glass case again. The chronograph is powered by the IWC-manufactured 69355 calibre, a sturdy and exact mechanical chronograph motion in a basic column-wheel design.
TAG Heuer’s “Restricted Version” Releases
TAG Heuer celebrates the 2024 Lunar New 12 months with two restricted version timepieces that merge the cultural richness of Asian heritage with TAG Heuer’s racing model DNA. Crafted in gold and metal, these two watches pay homage to the success embodied by the Dragon whereas exemplifying TAG Heuer’s dedication to honoring heritage inside its modern design. Each timepieces radiate celetial majesty with particular engravings to point the watch’s restricted launch, “Restricted Version” together with “One in every of 300” for the metal model and “One in every of 50” for the extra unique vary 18K 5N pink gold model.
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Bell & Ross’s BR 05 Artline Dragon Watch
Envoking tattoo artistry, the BR 05 Artline Dragon watch takes on this daring character, with its personal unique laser engraving. By adopting this graphic code, the timepiece visually performs on gentle and shadow by way of the relative fineness and thickness of every stroke honing in on the precision of line work that’s essential to “transcending the realm of drawing to that of a steel tattoo”. On the BR 05 Artline Dragon’s dial and built-in bracelet, the ornamental motif is finely engraved.
Baume & Mercier’s Riviera Chinese language New 12 months Restricted Version
The Riviera Chinese language New 12 months Restricted Version – 12 months of the Dragon is available in an unique pair: the Riviera Baumatic Moon-phase Date 10744 for males and the Riviera Automated 10743 for ladies, each obtainable at solely 150 items worldwide. The males’s timepiece encompasses a distinctive dodecagonal case which homes a high-performance Baumatic manufacture motion inside. Flip to case again and also you’ll discover the dodecagonal sapphire crystal the place a powerful five-clawed golden dragon stretches its physique to affix the smaller dragon on the moon-phase disc as a illustration of fine luck.
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso Tribute Enamel ‘Dragon’
Jaeger-LeCoultre provides a brand new chapter to this story of workmanship and artistry with the Reverso Tribute Enamel ‘Dragon’. The brand new timepiece pays tribute to the 12 months of the Dragon, and to the skills of the grasp enamellers and engravers within the Métiers Rares atelier of the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. Created to have a good time the Zodiac 12 months and made solely to order, the Reverso Tribute Enamel ‘Dragon’ is testomony to La Grande Maison’s imaginative and prescient of tradition and creativity, the place the creative crafts merge with the technical experience of the Jaeger-LeCoultre’s watchmakers.
Blancpain
In 2012, Blancpain achieved a world first when it debuted its Villeret Conventional Chinese language Calendar wristwatch that spanned East-West with its mixture of a posh Chinese language calendar and a Gregorian date and moonphase. This 12 months, the Manufacture enters its second 12-year cycle with the introduction of a brand new restricted version of this grand complication that includes a dragon engraved on the crimson gold winding rotor in honour of the image of the brand new lunar 12 months. This particular restricted version for the primary time is carried out in crimson gold with a inexperienced enamel dial in opposition to a frosted background the dragon is flanked by a crimson ruby and a Chinese language character engraving of the phrases “dragon” and “wooden”, the ingredient of 2024.
Parmigiani Fleurier
Maison Parmigiani celebrates the 12 months of the Wooden Dragon with a powerful restoration of a masterpiece from its Métiers d’Artwork assortment, the “Tempus Fugit”. Impressed by the legend of the Dragon and the Pearl of Data, the piece incorporates highly effective symbols anchored deep in conventional Chinese language tradition. This piece is a reference to Parmigiani Fleurier’s huge expertise within the restoration of vintage clocks.
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