Watches World

Bulgari Grande Lune is the newest presentation of its Daniel Roth collection. Its appearance soon captures the eyeballs of many watch fans.

The name Daniel Roth was once a name brand of watches when the founder, Daniel Roth set up his own watch manufacturing business in 1989 and established the brand’s fame with its fantastic Double Elipse elongated watchcase. The brand was later assumed ownership by Bulgari which made it a collection under Bulgari. That’s how the Bulgari Daniel Roth collection comes into being. Now the collection remains the true to its values of the brand Daniel Roth. This Bulgrai Grande Lune is an excellent example.

The Grande Lune features a special case shape, neither round nor oval, with the two side sides showing straight lines while the other two rounding off the case. The dial of this timepiece is special too. It is a two-tone dial, with the upper in white lacquer and the lower part in black satin finished. On the left is the unique three-arm seconds indicator, with each arm covering 20 seconds. Next to the seconds indicator in the upper right is the moonphase in crescent shape, taking the form of a full golden moon against the starry night sky. Lower, between five and six o’clock is the round date indicator. The strip markers finish off the exquisiteness of the magnificent dial.

Powering the Grande Lune is the Daniel Roth Calibre 2300 movement which is hand finished to a delicate standard. The moonphase is extremely accurate for it requires no adjustment for 125 years. Measured in 44mm, the case is in rose gold, joining an alligator strap to present a classic look.

This Grande Lune is indeed a nice example of  Bulgari’s fine watch making craftsmanship and innovative spirit.

Wrist watch is not just the symbol of fashion, taste or even social status now, but also it is a work of art because it always has the highest collect value. In Movado’s world, the innovative elements on wrist watches’ art and design were never lacked. They are always the representatives of trendy in the different eras beyond the purely functional level.

Now, the three kinds of wrist watches have become the top collections among wrist watches world, including the 1988’s limited edition Time/5 wrist watch, the 1989’s Rainbow series wrist watch, and 1990’s color wrist watch. Each piece of them is a collection owning to their revolutionary art and eternal beauty.

The Time/5 wrist watch was designed by the Famous pop artist Andy Warhol, which was the limited edition joint watch. Its watch band was composed of five independent watchcases, the dial plate’s pattern was the urban landscape of New York that filmed by Warhol. It was produced only a total of 250. This Time/5 wrist watch was the symbol of Movado artistic watches’ birth.

The Rainbow series wrist watch was designed by dynamic artists YaacovAgam of Israel. This series wrist watch was composed by the table clock, pendant watch and two kinds of wrist watches (The leather watchband & complete steel bracelet). It was also limited produced only 200.

James Rosenquist is an American abstract expressionism genre artist. He designed a unique wrist watch called “Elapse, Eclipse, Ellipse”, which was a wrist watch that can show three time zone. The three dial plates’ pattern was three drawings, which perfectly expressed the painting movements. This Elapse, Eclipse, Ellipse wrist watch was also produced only 180 limited editions.