As diamond silhouettes go, the emerald lower, with its lengthy, clear traces, mirror-like aspects and understated class, is understood for its regal bearing — one cause why diamantaire Harry Winston, often known as the “King of Diamonds,” was enchanted by it.

The truth is, Winston so adored the elongated emerald-cut form that he had a few of the most necessary diamonds he acquired as tough — together with the Jonker, a 726-carat diamond found in South Africa in 1934, and the Vargas, one other 726-carater found in Brazil in 1938 — polished into emerald-cut stones.

That legacy lives on immediately in particulars large and small, together with the Home of Harry Winston’s octagonal, or eight-sided, emblem; the form of the customized vitrines that seem within the model’s retail salons worldwide; and, maybe most persuasively, within the Emerald Assortment, a collection of timepieces that characteristic numerous dial colours and strap supplies unified by a single shared attribute: an octagonal-shaped case.

The gathering was launched in 2016, with the debut of an 18 mm mannequin boasting a diamond-set bezel. New iterations of the timepiece have been added to the vary over time, culminating with the Final Emerald Signature, the crown jewel of Harry Winston’s Excessive Jewellery Timepieces assortment.

Unveiled in 2014, the primary Final Emerald Signature excessive jewellery timepiece stays a pillar of the gathering. Swathed in almost 10 carats of diamonds, which require greater than 100 hours to handset, it contains a three-dimensional 18k white gold emerald-shaped case designed like a pyramid. The perimeters are flanked by tiers of brilliant- or baguette-cut diamonds of accelerating dimensions, all resulting in a 1-carat emerald-cut diamond on the summit. A encompass of 24 marquise diamonds decorates the octagonal case, lending the piece a way of motion because the otherwise angled stones replicate mild in all instructions.

Devised as a secret watch — the time period refers to a timekeeping show that’s hidden — the Final Emerald Signature reveals the time, on a dial solely paved in diamonds, when the higher a part of the case is swiveled. The piece is designed such that the proprietor can put on it across the wrist, across the neck as a pendant and even as a brooch.

In 2021, the model launched 4 new variations of the timepiece, every wearing various assortments of blue sapphires and Paraíba blue tourmalines, taking the Final Emerald Signature in a daring and colourful new path.

The gem-set variations are an identical in construction to the all-diamond model, together with the pyramid-shaped three-dimensional case and the emerald-cut stone that sits atop it, however on this case the stone is both a Paraíba tourmaline or darkish blue sapphire.

The colour scheme, which serves as a delicate nod to the blue hue of the 45.52-carat Hope Diamond acquired by Harry Winston in 1949, toggles between shades of blue, from the neon-turquoise blue coloration of the Paraíba tourmalines to the extra saturated darkish blue and light-weight blue shades of the sapphires.

The 2 timepieces set with tourmalines each characteristic dials set with 98 brilliant-cut Paraíba tourmalines; shoppers can select a diamond-set case or one which options an alternating sample of diamonds and tourmalines. By the identical token, the blue sapphire fashions boast dials studded with a mixture of diamonds and darkish and light-weight blue sapphires; they arrive in both a diamond-set case or a case that echoes the multicolor mixture on the dial.

All 5 fashions — the diamond-only model in addition to the 4 blue gem variations — come on satin straps completed with a white gold buckle blanketed with 29 brilliant-cut diamonds. (The all-diamond model will get a black strap, the blue sapphire fashions come on darkish blue straps and the tourmaline fashions on turquoise-colored straps.)

A further silk cloth bracelet offers shoppers a second strap alternative. However in addition they have the choice of carrying their Final Emerald Signature timepiece as a pendant or necklace, due to the 18k white gold chain set with 12 brilliant-cut diamonds included with the mannequin. And that’s not all: A clamp system on the again of the case permits its wearer to model the piece as a brooch.

With its wealth of scintillating and complex particulars, the Final Emerald Signature timepiece is as a lot a testomony to the enduring attraction of treasured stones as it’s to Harry Winston’s historic, and visionary, fascination with type. In good condition, certainly!

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