Franck Muller’s Cintrée Curvex Kaneda Ryoko Year of the Dragon Limited Edition watch is limited to 500 pieces
In traditional Chinese culture, the dragon is a mythical beast with extraordinary abilities. It is also a symbol of strength, courage, nobility, and success. It also means wealth and auspiciousness. It is very popular among Chinese people. Therefore, to welcome the upcoming Year of the Dragon, not only will the zodiac series be launched regularly, Watch brands carefully create Dragon Year watches, and many brands have also joined the lineup to create. “ET FASHION” presents the wonderful Dragon Year watches in two chapters in the “Luxury” section. This article explores cooperation with contemporary artists, incorporating the concept of paper-cutting and color painting Waiting for the artistic dragon watch, next week we will fully reveal the lifelike noble dragon watch using gold carving technology.
Art Dragon Watch
Among the many concrete and domineering dragon watches, the Asia-limited 500-piece Cintrée Curvex Kaneda Ryoko Year of the Dragon limited edition watch designed by Franck Muller in collaboration with Japanese artist Ryoko Kaneda is undoubtedly the kawaii and most surprising one. This artist, who is good at animation style, transformed the dragon into a cute little girl, playfully interacting with each digital time scale. The blue tone of the dragon girl’s hair highlights the dragon’s identity as the messenger of rain. The entire watch is mainly turquoise. The color is full of youthful vitality.
HUBLOT’s Spirit of Big Bang titanium watch incorporating the art of paper-cutting is limited to 88 pieces for the Year of the Dragon.
HUBLOT is inspired by the art of paper cutting. The Year of the Dragon limited edition Spirit of Big Bang titanium watch is launched in a limited edition of 88 pieces. It uses a purple tone that symbolizes the ancient imperial color, and cleverly combines the hands, gear train and screws to create a layered design to create a majestic 3D outline of the dragon head. The dragon body extends to the strap, and it is the first time that the brand has used inlay techniques to make rubber straps. Each dragon scale has been dyed and nano-vulcanized, and then seamlessly integrated with the strap by hand. Each strap requires a lot of effort. Completed in over 8 hours.
Bell & Ross launches its first zodiac watch BR 05 Artline Dragon, limited to 99 pieces
Bell & Ross, which launches a zodiac watch for the first time, brings tattoo culture into the design and launches the BR 05 Artline Dragon Year of the Dragon Limited Edition, which is covered with sun, moon, swallows, animals and plants, and other symbols of natural elements and domineering dragon patterns. The watch uses laser engraving to give the entire watch a strong sense of art. The bracelet is particularly difficult to make. Each link is assembled after etching. Therefore, the assembly technology must be extremely precise to make the pattern complete in one go.
Piaget Altiplano series Year of the Dragon limited 18K white gold limited ultra-thin craftsmanship diamond watch, limited to 38 pieces
Painted dragon watch
Painted watches are craft watches that are favored by many collectors. Piaget, which launches zodiac watches every year, follows the tradition of cooperating with enamel painting master Anita Porchet in 2006. She once again designed the Altiplano dragon calendar watch in a limited edition of 38 pieces. Through the cloisonné enamel technique and its signature overlapping effects of light, shadow and transparency, a blue dragon with a piercing gaze is depicted against white and gray mother-of-pearl clouds.
Jaeger-LeCoultre mobilized enamel masters and engravers from the Métiers Rares™ Workshop to jointly create the Reverso Tribute Enamel “Dragon” enamel Year of the Dragon commemorative watch. Flip the case and you can see the rose engraved on it. The golden auspicious dragon on the gold watch case seems to jump out from the bright black Grand Feu enamel background. Details such as the dragon’s body scales are outlined with black rhodium plating. The posture is agile. The master sculptor used a method called “Modelled” Engraving) technique successfully challenged the challenge of engraving on the Grand Feu enamel coating without damaging the original coating.
Chopard L.U.C XP series Dragon Year Maki-e watch is limited to 88 pieces
The Chopard L.U.C XP series Dragon Year Maki-e watch brings a perfect end to the cycle of the brand’s zodiac watch. It is Chopard’s 12th zodiac watch since 2013, and once again cooperates with Japan’s century-old Yamada Heiando workshop Collaborating with lacquer master Koizumi Sankyo, the golden dragon of the play ball was painted, and gold foil was sprinkled between the lacquer layers to make it more noble. Chopard plans to launch a wooden gift box watch set, giving collectors the opportunity to collect a complete set of twelve zodiac watches at once. surface.
