Here’s a pictorial that features High Jewelry Watches. You’ll see Van Cleef & Arpels gem encrusted timepieces, one just covered in pink sapphires with a hidden watch. Another VC&A, uses invisibly set emeralds and sapphires, with the most amazing 4-carat table cut diamond watch crystal!
And more!
All of these timepieces were seen this year at Watches and Wonders Geneva, April 1-7, 2025. The watch show reportedly reached a record attendance, with over 55,000 visitors throughout the week! The public days and the “In The City” program were equally a great success, according to show management.
Key exhibitors included Maison BVLGARI, A. Lange & Söhne, Hublot, Cartier, Christiaan van der Klaauw, Genus, Kross Studio, Patek Philippe, MeisterSinger, Rolex, TAG Heuer, Armin Strom, HYT, and Vacheron Constantin.
We uncovered several beautiful high jewelry gem-set watches for you to enjoy!
Van Cleef & Arpels – Ruban Mystérieux Watch
Of all the watches we found going through the exhibitors list, VC&A certainly had the watches with the most gems. Case in point, the Ruban. Set with 888 pink sapphires, and 252 diamonds, simply swing the bow to one side to reveal the watch.
18K rose gold
18K rose gold dial
18K rose gold bracelet and bow
round diamonds – Diamond: 252 stones, 3.31 carats / D-E/VVS
round pink sapphires – Sapphire: 888 stones, 21.48 carats
quartz movement
repetitive piece.
Van Cleef & Arpels
Another gem encrusted VC&A, the ribbon, set with mostly round brilliant cut diamonds, along with invisibly set emerald and sapphire step cut squares and baguettes.
▻ The watch crystal, a 4.10-carat oval, table cut diamond!
Hermès – The Maillon Libre
The Maillon Libre is both a timepiece and a jewel. Watch the video above to understand the design’s inspiration. Created in rose gold, set with diamonds and colored gems (possibly peach color tourmaline).
Hermès – Brooch / Watch
This idea is spot on! A watch that is a brooch!
The new Maillon Libre is no longer confined to the wrist. Instead, it can be pinned to your sleeve, your lapel, or strung around your neck like a lorgnette (only with the watch substituting for reading glasses).
Piaget – the Andy Warhol Watch
Andy Warhol watch, 45 x 43 mm. Case in rhodium finish 18K white gold with “clou de Paris” finish. Blue meteorite dial with hour markers. 501P1 Manufacture self-winding movement. $60,000.
Piaget Andy Warhol Watch
Not that they ever stopped making watches with hard stone dials, this style is a throw-back to the ’60s when Piaget first began using hard stone.
Reportedly, Warhol owned at least seven Piaget watches. But the watch that he is most associated with is the era-defining Beta21 movement, previously named the Black Tie watch. Now, thanks to an official new collaboration under license with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the timepiece is formally renamed as: the Andy Warhol watch. The Andy Warhol Watch is designed with malachite, tiger’s-eye, and meteorite with the Widmanstätten pattern.
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