March 19, 2024
Six élégantes montres féminines entre 10'000 et 50'000 CHF

A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia : CHF 16,800

Are you a white gold or a rose gold kind of person? With the new Saxonia model, you can be either. If you have trouble deciding, sorry: the price is no help, since both models cost exactly the same.

The model we have chosen comes in either white gold, for those who favour discretion, or rose gold, for the woman who’s not afraid to draw attention. It is driven by a hand-wound manufacture movement which can be viewed through the sapphire caseback. The watch face features a mother-of-pearl dial with baton indices, and hour, minute and small second hands in gold to match the case. The watch comes with a snow-white alligator strap to go with any outfit.

Six élégantes montres féminines entre 10'000 et 50'000 CHF

Saxonia © A. Lange & Söhne

Audemars Piguet Millenary : CHF 27,800 (rose gold) or CHF 30,000 (white gold)

Rather than buying a different watch to suit every occasion, why not choose one that will fit in anywhere? The Millenary collection has followed the fashion for interchangeable bracelets, offering a plethora of different colours and materials.

From flexible rubber to tactile velvet, from cool textile to comfortable alligator, from light colours to dark… There’s something for everyone. The oval 39.5 mm case in white or pink gold has an openworked dial that shows the manual winding mechanism, plus a small seconds register, and an off-centre mother-of-pearl disc displaying the hours and minutes.

Six elegant women’s watches from CHF 10,000 to CHF 50,000

Millenary © Audemars Piguet

Parmigiani Fleurier Kalparisma Calendar : CHF 34,500

The Kalparisma collection is the women’s version of the Kalpa. This women’s watch is not just a smaller-sized version of the men’s – the collection has been completely redesigned for women. A full-gold model caught our eye.

Faithful to the iconic Parmigiani shape, this watch has a tonneau-shaped 18K rose gold case (37.5 mm x 31.2 mm), with an automatic movement. From the diamond-set bezel to the crown, not forgetting the bracelet, everything is made of rose gold. Only the dial contrasts, with its ivory hue and sunray guilloché motif. This eminently feminine watch shows not only hours, minutes and seconds, but also the date, via a window at 6 o’clock.

Six elegant women’s watches from CHF 10,000 to CHF 50,000

Kalparisma Calendar © Parmigiani Fleurier

Piaget Altiplano : CHF 18,800 or CHF 26,800 (diamond-set bezel)

This year, the Altiplano collection celebrates its 60th birthday. In honour of the occasion, Piaget has brought out a selection of new models in different colours. In keeping with their heritage, the new timepieces have the distinctive extra-thin profile and minimalist dial.

We have selected a pink Altiplano, to bring a touch of colour to the festive season. The watch comes in a polished white gold 34 mm case, and is driven by the 430P hand-wound movement, the descendant of the ultra-thin calibre 9P. The radiant pink dial gives this elegant and luminous piece a decidedly feminine allure. The slender shape of the baton indices is echoed in the hour and minute hands. The watch comes complete with matching pink alligator strap.

Six elegant women’s watches from CHF 10,000 to CHF 50,000

Altiplano © Piaget

Ulysse Nardin Classic Lady Dual Time : CHF 13,500

Thanks to a ground-breaking mechanism created by Ulysse Nardin, you no longer need to fear for your manicure. The second time zone is adjusted by simply pressing one of the two pushers between 8 and 10 o’clock.

To complement the winter season, we have chosen a midnight blue model whose dial is scattered with diamonds, like snowflakes falling from the sky. This stunningly elegant watch comes in a steel 37.5 mm case, and is driven by an automatic movement with silicon escapement. As its name suggests, it displays two time zones – one on the hands, and the other in a kind of rotating bubble at 9 o’clock. The date is displayed in a window at 2 o’clock, and there’s a small seconds register at 6 o’clock.

Six elegant women’s watches from CHF 10,000 to CHF 50,000

Classic Lady Dual Time © Ulysse Nardin

Vacheron Constantin Patrimony small model : CHF 26,700

The Patrimony collection is recognisable by its minimalist style and traditional case shape. We have chosen a small and simple model that comes with an eye-catching strap.

The soft hue of the 36 mm rose gold case, the slender and discreet hands (hour, minute, seconds) and indices, plus the beige metallic dial contrast with the vivid purple alligator strap. This Geneva Hallmark certified timepiece also helps its owner to keep track of the passing days thanks to the date at 6 o’clock.

As we have seen with the Lange Double Split, there’s not one, but two column wheels at the motion. As you can see on the picture above, this column wheel is directly connected to the two arms that control the splitting (or rattrapante) purpose: a few extremely finicky geometrics come to perform to stop and give up the wheel connected to one of both principal chronograph seconds hands. Another column across the motion (the one to the left on the picture below) functions as a regular chronograph function’s column wheel, accountable for stopping and starting the chronograph itself.There are simple movements that amaze with their completing and you will find not-so-amazingly finished complex movements that amaze with their mind-boggling layout. The Tourbograph combines the two and produces a watch that’s a sensual overload with a window on a world where stunning surface treatments and decorations match with a few of the hard geometrics and interactions of components.It is filigree and yet rocky in a way few movements with ~700 components are. All the parts seem to have substantial volume to them, nearly begging the question why so many different moves we see incorporate fragile-looking little springs and cams in their design. The Tourbograph looks like a beautifully decorated machine which dwarfs other movements.Hidden deep within the bowels of this L133.1 is a fusée and string transmission system, designed to ensure a more even delivery of torque because the mainspring unwinds over its short, 36-hour power reserve — 36 hours is indeed brief, however a shorter than average power reserve is not exactly unusual one of such exceptionally complicated movements. The series itself is 636 parts, but Lange counts it as one (yes, one) component from the 684 component count of the motion itself.
Six elegant women’s watches from CHF 10,000 to CHF 50,000

Patrimony small model © Vacheron Constantin