STYLE & BEAUTY ON THE
STYLE & BEAUTY ON THE PULSE 6 / 7 J A E G E R - L E C O U L T R E G E O P H Y S I C 1 9 5 8 This pristine deco beauty takes its shape from a watch that might have languished in the more obscure corners of Piaget’s archives, had it not been sported by Andy Warhol. The original oozed 1970s style, not just for the TV-screen dial and stepped case, but for the fact that it contained the Beta 21 quartz movement, Switzerland’s doomed attempt to do battle with cheap Japanese watches. The new one, inevitably, is highly luxurious, with a slim in-house automatic movement, black onyx dial and supreme finishing. Worth breaking out the tuxedo for. piaget.com 4 / 7 P I A G E T B L A C K T I E V I N T A G E I N S P I R A T I O N 5 / 7 O M E G A S E A M A S T E R 3 0 0 M A S T E R C O - A X I A L The retro looks of the legendary Seamaster 300 from 1957 are here, juxtaposed with the myriad advances in materials and engineering Omega has made in recent years. Elements such as a silicon hairspring, high-tech resistance to huge magnetic fields and use of futuristic alloys like Omega’s patented super-hard bezel material, LiquidMetal, make this a modern triumph – but on the wrist it looks little different to the original “broad arrow” Seamaster 300. omegawatches.com The 1990s are hardly seen as a high point for watch design, but one truly collectible curio from that era is the Zenith Rainbow, a tough-guy timepiece made for the French Air Force whose multicoloured dial markings were made for easy visibility in infrared cockpit conditions. Zenith’s Stratos sports watch line – worn by skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner as he plummeted from space – picks up where those 1990s models left off, while this limited edition adds those distinctive rainbow markings. zenith-watches.com 7/7 What today seems an elegant traditional watch in a vaguely minimalist style was in 1958 a standard bearer for modernity. That year saw an array of global scientific projects occur under the banner “International Geophysical Year”, for which Jaeger- LeCoultre created a rugged, antimagnetic instrument of a watch suitable for the scientists and explorers of the early Atomic Age. Its contemporary re-edition is slightly bigger and houses a cutting-edge modern movement, but its yellowed luminous hands give it the lived-in feel of an historic piece. jaeger-lecoultre.com Z E N I T H E L P R I M E R O S T R A T O S F L Y B A C K R A I N B O W PHOTOS CXXXXXXXXX COURTESY OF THE WATCHMAKERS
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