The strength of steel is matched only by its coldness.
The temperatures are rising however this season with a harvest of models in rose gold.
No question of ostentation, but rather of marrying the eternal beauty of noble metal with the complexity of the movements.
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Some watchmakers, which can be counted on the fingers of one hand, have a foundry in their manufacture.
Besides Rolex and Chopard, the most famous of watchmaking start-ups, Hublot, likes to play alchemists with its King Gold, a scratch-resistant alloy in which it forges its famous Big Bang.
Patek Philippe is also part of this cenacle and this year revisits its annual calendar regulator by dressing it in rose gold.
Others do not melt metal, but nevertheless transform what they touch into gold, like the extreme watchmaker Richard Mille, who thus dresses his RM 72-01, and Audemars Piguet with its very first Royal Oak Automatic Flying Tourbillon.
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