![]() ![]() Favourbrook silk scarf, £79 © Philip White Dolce & Gabbana wool jersey coat, £1,700, and cotton and silk shawl-lapel tuxedo, £3,400. Nino wears Chopard white-gold Poinçon de Genève LUC Louis-Ulysse – The Tribute pocket watch, £49,700. ![]() We sell maybe one or two Patek Philippe pocket watches per year, driven by lack of availability as well as by price.” Our business tends to polarise into relatively low-priced watches under £1,000, likely for occasional wear, and high-priced collector’s items. Mark Toulson, Watches of Switzerland Group’s head of watch buying, says: “Pocket watches very much represent a special occasion watch, most often worn at weddings. Harry Winston’s Quadri Tourbillon features four independent tourbillons, the openwork movement fitted into a round case. Often too, the pocket watch is a vehicle for sophisticated complications. Hermès Arceau Pocket Cheval Punk, £322,890Īmong the heritage watchmaking maisons, pocket watches tend to be made in small quantities as true collector’s items, showcasing rarefied métiers d’art, or in Patek Philippe’s case, their Rare Handcrafts. This is what Jacob & Co has done with its Brilliant Watch Pendants, melding haute horlogerie with high fashion and high jewellery, mixing vintage and contemporary. Or fuse the two genres and wear the pocket watch as a pendant on a long chain. Christian Selmoni, Vacheron’s heritage and style director, says: “We have noticed an increasing demand for pocket watches, both simple and complicated, such as chronographs and minute-repeaters.” Wear them on an antique Albert watch chain, authentically tucked into a waistcoat pocket, or even on a vintage-inspired gold chain with bar, as in Jessica McCormack’s latest Goth-flavoured Lost Boys collection. ![]() ![]() Antique and vintage models, either open-face or hunter-cased with a protective gold or silver cover, can be found at auction or specialist dealers such as the Watch Club or Somlo London, or from Vacheron Constantin’s vintage selection, Les Collectionneurs. Now it’s suspended from the equally familiar leather cloche, in black boxcalf or smooth alligator, hung on a leather cord, suitably hard-edged and 1970s in feel.įuse the two – wear the pocket watch as a pendantĪs for the pocket watch, a fashion-fuelled re-emergence seems likely. Hermès included a leather sautoir as part of the new Kelly watch collection, inspired by the familiar 1930s Kelly handbag padlock that morphed into a watch in 1975. Dior Jewellery creative director Victoire de Castellane added medallion watch necklaces to her Gem Dior collection, taking the form of single misshapen shards one rose-gold version had touches of carnelian and pale pink aragonite, while another in yellow gold had a malachite dial. The pendant watch, redolent of swinging, rule-breaking informality, made a revamped appearance at Watches and Wonders earlier this year. It was tucked nonchalantly into Corrin’s waistcoat, a subtle nod to the emerging trend across men’s and women’s jewellery for wearing watches on chains. When actor Emma Corrin dressed up as Evander Berry Wall, the socialite dandy of New York’s Gilded Age, for this year’s Met Gala, the vital finishing touch to their black suit, top hat and check jacket was a vintage 1914 platinum and onyx Cartier pocket watch. ![]()
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