5 avant-garde luxury timepieces to take your breath away
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Trend setting: luxury brands are breaking boundaries
Luxury brands create avant-garde watches that break boundaries
Audemars Piguet
Nothing can stop the watchmaker from going to the extreme. And its The Diamond Outrage cuff watch is a one-of-a-kind haute joaillerie timepiece, exploding with blue sapphires-studded spikes. Price on request
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Franck Muller
The hand-polished open-worked bridges and the signature open-worked hands of the Vanguard 7 Days Power Reserve Skeleton gives wearers the pleasure of looking into the in-house crafted movement and the entire mechanism. HK$342,000
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The Neo-Bridges Automatic Titanium watch is a modern interpretation of the 19th century Esmeralda pocket watch’s architectural construction design with a new movement of perfect symmetry. Price on request
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Inspired by jellyfish, the Horological Machine N°7 Aquapod takes the creature’s form and structure with two high-domed sapphire crystal hemispheres and a central flying tourbillon topping the concentric vertical movement architecture. Price on request