The luxury watch industry has launched a number of exciting new pieces for 2021.
Luxury watch makers and jewellery brands have responded to the fashion for more colour and immaculate design as well as continuing to extend the capabilities of specialist watches that meet the challenges of extreme sports and international time zones.
Whether you want a watch to wear every day or wish to find something truly spectacular for your collection, there is an impressive selection to choose from.
Women’s wrist watches
Vogue’s 14 Exquisite New Watches That Are An Impeccable Investment feature (April) provides a shortlist of the best luxury women’s watches available so far this year. It includes Piaget’s Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow jewellery watch which features a spectrum of green tsavorites and multi-coloured sapphires wrapped around its hand-engraved gold dial.
The feature also highlights one of four new Patek Philippe Nautilus models, the Nautilus 5711-1A-014. It presents a totally new olive green sunburst dial for this icon of casual elegance – a hue that has never existed before in this exclusive collection.
Men’s wrist watches
Luxury London magazine has published its own list of The best new men’s watches for 2021, giving readers the inside track on the ‘hottest time pieces for 2021 – as and when they drop’. The list comprises; the Bulgari Octo Finissimo S Chronograph GMT (bulgari.com), Roger Dubuis Excalibur Double Flying Tourbillon in pink gold (rogerdubuis.com), TAG Heuer Carrera Porsche Chronograph(tagheuer.com) and more.
Collecting
For those who prefer vintage watches, the global market has never been stronger. This was clearly seen at the Christie’s (Geneva) May 10th Rare Watches live auction. The sale achieved CHF 22,936,500 (almost £18 million) for 215 lots .
Upcoming online and international watch auctions:
7-18 May
Christies online Watches Online – The Geneva Edit
13-25 May
Sotheby’s, Hong Kong Fine Watches
18 May
Bonhams, London Watches and Wristwatches
June
Antiquorum , worldwide Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
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If you would like to discuss specialist insurance for your watch, jewellery or collection, please contact our premier client adviser, Imran Moideen at imran.moideen@smithgreenfield.co.uk or telephone 020 8603 3730