It requires conceptualizing, designing, decorating, engraving, and then assembling, these rare watches are extremely fine and bring a story behind them. PEAKLIFE brings you 30 Avant-grade, rare complications, and timepieces from different horology as we celebrated the World Watch Day. A day to celebrate the history and making of a watch.

 

• Maurice Lacroix

Strong and masculine without being excessively detailed or large, the AIKON Automatic Chronograph Limited Edition with vibrancy displayed in its grey dial, blue counters and red hands, is a resolutely modern timepiece with a unique presence.

 

• Hublot

The legendary Starball, formed of 8 stars arranged to represent the emblematic UEFA Champions League ball, is displayed on the dial of the Classic Fusion Chronograph UEFA Champions League. This Official Licensed Watch sports the competition’s colours: a midnight blue case made from polished and satin-finished ceramic, and a matching leather strap with white stitching.

 

• Zenith

 

The DEFY El Primero 21 Carbon is equipped with El Primero chronograph calibre’s enduring legacy, high-tech composite material which is lightweight yet extremely durable, and plays with light to reveal a unique visual effect caused by alternating layers of carbon fibres.

 

• Breitling

 

Breitling Premier B01 Chronograph 42 Wheels and Waves Limited Edition has a unique anthracite dial with golden hour markers, hour and minute hands, and a red central seconds hand. The dial features a black tachymeter scale on a white inner bezel, with a red tachymeter inscription. These COSC-certified chronometers have contrasting black subdials – a mark that they are powered by Breitling’s flagship Manufacture Caliber 01.

 

• Chopard

Chopard Mille Miglia 2019 Race Edition is first and foremost a watch designed for racing, a veritable horological speed machine. Alongside its obvious robustness and durability, it features a generous 44-mm case with a screw-in back and water resistance guaranteed to 100 metres.

 

• Breguet

 

The Classique Grandes Complications line by Breguet, welcomes the Classique Tourbillon Extra-Plat 5395 timepiece, with an entirely skeletonized movement. A Marine collection to modern day women with mother-of-pearl dial, a particularly fragile material, which graces the dial and rotor of the movement for this collection.

 

• Audemars Piguet

 

Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin combines titanium and 950 platinum for an elegant look and a significant lighter feel on the wrist. To reach an ultra-thin movement of 2.89 mm in height, the perpetual calendar functions, normally arranged on three levels have been merged into one single layer.

 

• Jaeger-LeCoultre

 

Hybris Artistica mystérieuse is no exception to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s rule of creative and mechanical perfection. The watch indicates the hour and minute with rare accuracy – but without hands. It is entirely hand-assembled, and made-to-measure movement forms the rhythmic backdrop for a new orbital flying tourbillon, a new oscillating weight, and a new carriage of a novel shape.

 

• IWC

 

A Pilot’s watch Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Edition “Le Petit Prince” featuring a spectacular midnight blue dial, is a special edition limited to 250 pieces worldwide. Its smart mechanism will require no manual adjustment until 2100. The IWC-manufactured 89630 calibre combines this iconic complication with a chronograph function.

 

• Frank Muller

 

The most iconoclastic complication of Franck Muller: the Crazy Hours is highlighted in a Vanguard case with sporty curves and vibrant numbers and a black dial. With its sun-stamped lacquered dial and distinct numerals applied by hand, its complication offers a unique reading of time, showing hour numerals in the most unconventional order and making the central hour hand literally jump from one hour to the next.

 

• Rolex

 

Rolex sea Dweller offers a wide range of classic and professional watches to suit any wrist. The brand new Rolex sea dweller is designed in collaboration with professional deep sea divers as it is the first experimental underwater wrist watch. 

 

• Blancpain

Measuring 45 mm in diameter and water-resistant to 300 meters, the new Fifty Fathoms Automatique in titanium features a ratcheted unidirectional rotating bezel, fitted with a scratchproof domed black sapphire insert.

 

• Patek Philippe

 

The Patek Philippe diamond Ribbon Joaillerie are inspired by swirling silk ribbons. The Joaillerie pieces in their newest edition, Calatrava gradually increase as they spiral around the dial and case, giving the watch a luxurious aura.

 

• Omega

Speedmaster Moonwatch Anniversary- Omega by Johnson Watch Co. includes a 42 mm case in stainless steel with a polished 18K Moonshine™ Gold bezel. There is a varnished grey and black dial with all indexes and hands in 18K Moonshine™ Gold, with a laser-engraved image of Buzz Aldrin climbing down onto the lunar surface.

 

• Carl F Bucherer

The monero tourbillion double peripheral is an automatic rose gold timeless piece by Carl. F Bucherer with anti-reflective coating on both sides that gives it an high end aura.

 

• Tag Heuer

 

The revamped Carrera Lady timepiece is available with a quartz or automatic movement, deftly combine in an intriguing trapezoidal shape performance and style. A seconds scale is printed on the flange around the dial, and is surrounded by either a smooth or diamond-set bezel.  

 

• Panerai

 

The new Luminor Marina has a brand new silver-coloured dial, with a special brushed finish formed of vertical stripes, and large figures covered with white luminous material ensuring excellent visibility at night and underwater. On the back, the bidirectional oscillating weight of the P.9010 Manufacture movement, automatic with a power reserve of three days, can be seen through sapphire.

 

• Tudor

 

The Tudor black bay bronze adopts the characteristic angular hands known as snowflake that appears in the brand’s catalogue and it also offers high technical performances which makes it worth recommending.

 

• Baume & Mercier

 

The Clifton Baumatic Perpetual Calendar combines the Baume & Mercier spirit of innovation. In addition to a five-day power reserve, it  resists to the main magnetic fields of daily life. This model only requires maintenance service once every seven years and requires no date correction before March 1st, 2100.

 

• Chanel

 

The Chanel code coco watch is an 18K white gold set watch with diamonds and black calfskin strap which gives a high precision quartz movement.

 

• Mont Blanc

 

Montblanc 1858 Geosphere is a Montblanc watch that pays tribute to the legendary Minerva watches from the 1930’s and captures the spirit of the great outdoors. A vintage inspired timepiece for fearless adventurers and explorers, the new timepiece captures the spirit of the outdoors with a bronze case, brand-new khaki-green dial and matching coloured “NATO” straps.

 

• Ulysse Nardin

 

Ulysse Nardin’s Diver Chronometer redefines functional elegance with its audacious design. A diving watch crafted to withstand up to three hundred meters of potentially deadly water pressure, its inverted, concave bezel with domed sapphire glass is a breakthrough in exquisite watchmaking.

 

• Fendi

 

Enhanced with a chatoyant tiger eye stone dial, the Forever Fendi stainless steel version brings infinite grace to the wrist. The round curves of the Forever Fendi watch case, enriched with a white diamond-set crown, capture a lady like allure and a glamorous feeling.

 

• Swatch

 

The newest SWATCH BIG BOLD product line, a statement piece boasting a striking Ø47mm watchcase, serves as a daring canvas for this limited-edition collection. It features a newly designed signature BAPE camo pattern as well as the Ape Head logo on the hour hand and the lower strap, with the enhanced Swatch logo.

 

• Frederique Constant

The new Horological Smartwatch additions are made for men who want more than to just be able to consult the time on their wrist with a quartz watch. It is meant for customers that look for exciting user’s experience such as dynamic coaching, sleep monitoring, Worldtimer function, activity tracking, get-active alerts & information to aid self-improvement through features that can be individually adjusted.

 

• Longines

 

The round, stainless steel and 18 karat pink gold cap 200, a Longines Record Collection combines classic elegance and excellence, aspiring to become the spearhead of the brand. Certified by COSC, the self-winding mechanical beating provides 40 hours of power reserve.

 

• Lange & Söhne

 

The manually wound calibre L121.1 introduced in 2015 includes a precisely jumping outsize date display and a freely oscillating Lange balance spring. Paired with a large cam-poised balance, it assures superb rate accuracy. The opulently finished movement features a twin mainspring barrel with a power reserve of 72 hours as well as typical Lange quality hallmarks.

 

• Greubel Forsey

The essence of Greubel Forsey is shown in its 39.6 mm Balancier Contemporain, a white gold 33-piece limited edition. It is imagined providing a particularly compact showcase for its exclusive balance-wheel system. An original and engaging display of three-dimensional architecture, this timepiece is suited to all wrists and asserts itself as a new creation in its own right.

 

• Vacheron Constantin

With an ultra-thin self-winding movement, the Fiftysix tourbillon houses a peripheral oscillating weight enabling an even slimmer construction and providing a view of the movement. The tourbillon carriage is shaped like with Maltese cross, emblem of the Maison. The Fiftysix collection is a clear tribute to product 6073, a watchmaking legend. A link that Vacheron Constantin treasures and is now perpetuating the collection that combines modern elegance with casual sophistication.

 

• Parmigiani Fleurier

If the reference to the lunar phases adds a poetic touch, enticing you to daydream, then Tonda Metropolitaine Selene, it is also a feminine interpretation of a great mechanical watchmaking classic. As its name implies, the watch is a spectacular rendering that recalls the night sky filled with a galaxy of stars – thanks to the incredibly alluring midnight blue aventurine dial. By mixing metallic fragments into the glass as it is being made, the aventurine dial offers a host of inclusions that make it shimmer and sparkle like the night sky.