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Raymond Weil Honors<br />
Buddy Holly, Beatles,<br />
Bowie and Les Paul<br />
Raymond Weil adds to its musical repertoire in <strong>2017</strong> with several new tuneful<br />
horological compositions. Long dedicated to celebrating its love of all types of<br />
music, the Geneva-based brand announced its expanded partnership with U.S.-<br />
based guitar-maker Gibson. While at Baselworld the brand adds two musicalthemed<br />
Maestro models. One new Maestro is dedicated to the memory of Buddy<br />
Holly, one to David Bowie and the other expands the Beatles-themed collection<br />
first seen in 2016.<br />
The Beatles Maestro collection, which debuted in 2016 with a watch that<br />
featured all Beatles album titles emblazoned around the dial, this year offers<br />
a watch with a more nuanced design. The 39.5mm steel edition (with steel<br />
bracelet) features a black dial etched to resemble a vinyl album and with the<br />
four Beatles representing the 4 o’clock position. A smoky sapphire caseback will<br />
reveal a Sellita-based automatic movement.<br />
Just prior to Baselworl, Raymond Weil introduced the year’s other<br />
39.5mm Maestro watch homage to early rock and roll music: a special 80th<br />
anniversary tribute to Buddy Holly. The watch, sold with a steel bracelet, has<br />
been designed in partnership with Maria Elena Holly, the widow of Holly, and it<br />
features the musician’s favorite number (9), favorite color (power blue) and his<br />
heavy rimmed black glasses, seen on the end of the separate seconds hand.<br />
Inside is a Sellita-based automatic RW4250 with a 38-hour power reserve.<br />
The automatic movement is visible through the smoked sapphire glass caseback,<br />
which bears the logo of the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Raymond Weil<br />
will contribute a portion of the sale of each watch to the foundation, a charity<br />
that funds the musical education of young people. Three thousand will be made.<br />
Also new is a special tribute to David Bowie, a collaboration with the David<br />
Bowie Estate. The Freelancer David Bowie watch honors the influential musician<br />
in time for what would have been his 70th birthday. The watch’s 42mm case<br />
features a dial with grooves that mimic a vinyl record, plus the red lightning<br />
bolt from the cover of his 1973 album, Aladdin Sane, and the red Bowie logo from<br />
the Diamond Dogs album from 1974. The 3,000-piece, limited and numbered<br />
series of automatic watches also feature a portrait of David Bowie on its sapphire<br />
caseback as shot by photographer Terry O’Neill.<br />
106 <strong>Charmed</strong> <strong>2017</strong>
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