Last month’s Watch and Jewellery Show usually held in Basel, Switzerland was not only exhibition of pieces with array of tints, magnificence and attractiveness but display of innovations backed by technologies.
Heavy weights in watch manufacturing were in Basel event, the gathering of international watch and jewellery industry, to continuously make statements on their technologies which have become pride of individual personalities.
High technology has penetrated all sectors and watch industry has since embraced it to develop pieces hard to resist in spite of proliferation of timing gadgets and cells. The watches are beyond the celebration of rhodium imbued pieces with alluring straps but evidence of reliability, water resistance, accuracy and durability.
At Basel, were retailers and watch connoisseurs including Polo’s management led by Managing Director, John Obayuwana and Executive Director, Jennifer Obayuwana. Time piece manufacturers came with genre of pieces to satisfy their different consumers since watches, like other wears are personal with individual tastes in design, colour and style. One of the dominant names in time piece, Arnold & Son had another opportunity to reveal itself and new technologies at the Basel event held between 21st and 26th March 2019. It came with array of product designs to consumers delight. Its HM Perpetual Moon Aventurine was “revealed as a spectacular solid gold moon phase harmonizing with a sparkling blue aventurine quartz dial and paired with an in-house Arnold & Son mechanical calibre”, says Michael Weare in Watchuseek Website.
“Beyond technological aspects of the HM Perpetual Moon Aventurine, the entire rhodium plated movement features hand finishing including chamfered with polished edges, Côtes de Genève and fine circular grained bridges, circular-grained wheels, blued screws with polished and chamfered edges”, Weare further writes.
Other displays show Arnold & Son reinterpreting its emblematic symmetrical skeleton Nebula watches in new proportions. Information available reveals that the three-dimensional, openwork movement and dial of the Nebula offer views into the very heart of the in-house manufacture calibre. “Its gold case has been reinvented in a 38 mm diameter, magnifying the hypnotic micro-mechanical spectacle of the hand-wound movement
“Besides the careful attention to equilibrium, the powerful allure of the Nebula also derives from the calculated proportions and ratios of diameter versus height, size and placement of every gear and wheel. Rather than being an assembly of disparate components – case, dial, and movement – Nebula was designed from the ground up to be completely holistic, with all components blending harmoniously into one. For instance, no less than ten bridges of this complex calibre form the dial.
Deftly blending its British heritage with its Swiss watchmaking savoir-faire, Arnold & Son offers a new calibre to its Time Pyramid collection. With a skeletonized pyramid-shaped tourbillon seemingly floating between two sapphire crystals, the Time Pyramid Tourbillon is a true rendition of technical prowess and sleek elegance. The Time Pyramid Tourbillon presents a cohesive combination of watchmaking feats organized in a pyramidal architecture. The tourbillon and the two power reserve indicators are superposed by a sapphire crystal dial indicating the hours itself, crowned with a rhodium plated ring for the minutes.
This exclusive construction offers a lively-look and three-dimensional face to the timepiece and, to further enhance the balance and symmetry.
Watches are pieces of engineering marvel and exhibitors at the Basel event including Arnold & Son and other exhibitors were able to display the master piece in watches.
Daniel Obi
