At this year’s Watches & Wonders men were spoilt for choice when it came to statement-making timepieces.
PIAGET – POLO SIGNATURE
True Blue
There is something so satisfying about a maison that understands its own DNA so completely it can build an entire collection moment around a single decorative groove. Those rippled horizontal striations – gadroons, in Piaget’s vocabulary – have been the house’s secret weapon since 1979, and at Watches & Wonders this year the Polo Signature collection got a full wardrobe refresh around them. Deep blue dials now run across the range, with a sodalite-dialled Polo 79 making a stone-cold case for the allure of mineral glamour. Effortless, considered, and evergreen in its attitude – this is Piaget doing exactly what the brand does best.
CARTIER – CARTIER PRIVÉ – LA COLLECTION
Treat Yourself
A decade in, and Cartier Privé still knows exactly how to make a collector’s pulse race. For its tenth opus, the Maison didn’t just revisit one of its archival shapes – it brought back three. The Tank Normale, Tortue Chronographe Monopoussoir and Crash Squelette arrive together in platinum, bound by a thread of deep burgundy that runs through each piece like a shar...