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|Objects| Colour Instinct Watch brands are turning up the heat this summer with a rainbow of high-wattage hues – from refreshing aqua and minty green to hot pink, florid purple and fiery orange. After years of classic blues and greens, this fun-loving palette energises the wrist with flashy high-jewellery pieces lavishly set with eye-popping coloured gems and vibrant dials paired with matching rubber straps that are sure to make a splash at the yacht club. When temperatures rise, it’s time to go bold or go home. By Laurie Kahle Clockwise from left: Breguet The Marine Haute Joaillerie 9509 Poseidonia takes us under the sea in extravagant style. Available in three colourful high-jewellery versions, Poseidonia features an iridescent mother-of-pearl dial adorned with 85 invisibly set, baguette-cut, coloured gemstones depicting floating fronds of Mediterranean seagrass, breguet.com Audemars Piguet More is more when it comes to a new series of 20 high-jewellery Royal Oaks fully set with your choice of 10 different coloured gemstones, including blue topaz, each available in 37mm and 41mm sizes, audemarspiguet.com Patek Philippe Purple reigns with the 35mm rose-gold Calatrava Reference 4997/200R- 001 featuring a vibrant violet dial embossed with a pattern of concentric waves coated with more than 50 layers of translucent lacquer for dazzling depth and luminosity, patek.com 30 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
Rolex To everyone’s surprise, Rolex revealed a hidden, cheeky side with a new Day-Date that’s missing the day and date. Adapting a don’t-worry-behappy mantra, inspiring words, such as “peace” and “love”, replace the days of the week and one of 31 custom emojis – including the brand’s trademark coronet – appear in the date window, rolex.com Hermès The maison has infused its modernist cushion-shaped H08 collection with jolts of colour, including bright orange, yellow, green and blue in lightweight and durable composite cases fitted with black ceramic bezels and matching sporty rubber straps to complete the sport-chic look, hermes.com Tag Heuer Celebrating the 60th anniversary of its flagship Carrera, TAG Heuer updated the Carrera Date with a tweaked design for enhanced comfort, an upgraded movement for heightened performance and colourful new dials, including scorching hot pink. The unisex 36mm size harks back to the original Carrera from 1963, tagheuer.com Gucci The hip-to-be-square jumping-hour Grip is a stone-cold winner in two new 38mm rose-gold versions with coloured hard stones: mint-green chrysoprase and brick-red jasper with matching time-display discs and alligator straps for a monochromatic retro vibe, gucci.com PHOTOS COURTESY THE WATCHMAKERS Chopard The latest Happy Sport gets the royal treatment in a trendy 33mm twotone, ethical rose gold and sustainable Lucent Steel case paired with a deep purple, textured mother-of-pearl dial. topped with five enchanting dancing diamonds, chopard.com Zenith The sporty 36mm steel DEFY Skyline is seeing stars through rosecoloured glasses with a metallic pastel-pink sunburst-patterned dial and matching rubber strap that easily switches back and forth with a stainless-steel bracelet, so you can change up the look and feel in a flash, zenithwatches.com Richard Mille For its first women’s sport watch lineup, the RM 07-04 Automatic Sport, Richard Mille teamed up with six top female athletes to create six dedicated designs reflecting their input on the bold colour choices. High technicity and extreme performance never had so much fun! richardmille.com CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 31
