LUXURY WATCH EDIT
ROX MAGAZINE
LUXURY WATCH EDIT The definitive directory of what you should be wearing on your wrist right now. Words by Alex Doak.
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HUBLOT
CHOPARD
AUDEMARS PIGUET
CLASSIC FUSION FERRARI GT
L.U.C. QUATTRO
This extraordinary HR Giger-esque cyborg of a watch is the latest result of Hublot and Ferrari’s hand-in-hand design approach that travels miles further than mere badge engineering. Like 2017’s extraordinary ‘Techframe’ celebrating Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, this chronograph looks to the sinuous forms of Maranello’s finest ‘Gran Turismo’ road cars for design inspo, suspending the ‘engine’ in a voluptuous, biomorphic chassis, just as Ferrari displays its mid-mounted V8s through a glass cowling. 72855 | £32,100
It says everything of Chopard’s elite ‘L.U.C.’ thinktank that its horological boffins have barely needed to tweak the Quattro movement in 19 years, so perfect is its concoction of dual twin-stacked barrels, affording nine whole, wind-free days of tick-tick-ticking autonomy. Its surprisingly slender mechanics are finished flawlessly by hand – always beautiful backstage, leaving Chopard’s draughtsmen with the constant challenge of reworking their modern classic, front-of-house. This year’s slate-blue redux is a particular tour de force. 74024 | £20,800
ROYAL OAK PERPETUAL CALENDAR ULTRA-THIN
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Losing 3.2mm from your waistband is hardly troubling Weight Watchers’ annual awards ceremony, but when you consider things started at 9.5mm, and the diet has only been going a few years, that’s truly impressive. Not only is the new ‘5133’ perpetual calendar movement thinner, it is also cleverer, simplifying the components required to keep the precise date in spite of the Gergorian calendar’s erratic course from 374 to 256 – an engineering process AP alikes to collapsing a three-storey building into one, slightly broader single storey. 74020 | (P.O.A.)
