The Best Watches From LVMH Watch Week 2024, Including Bulgari's Second Collaboration With Lisa
LVMH Watch Week is back for its fifth instalment and it is better than ever, including a special timepiece from Bulgari and Lisa.
LVMH Watch Week 2024, held in Miami, has been a doozy with new icons and novelties from the likes of Bulgari, Hublot, TAG Heuer and ZENITH that challenge and revolutionise watchmaking in terms of design and technical prowess. Below, we break down the best watches from each participating brand.
BULGARI
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Bulgari’s elegant and sleek Octo Finissimo collection, boasting some of the thinnest watches in the world, welcomed two new references—yellow gold with a deep blue lacquer dial and stainless steel with a salmon-hued “Tuscan Copper” metal dial. Both watches are equipped with the calibre BVL 138, which measures only 2.33mm thick, making them compact and gorgeous simultaneously.
Of course, we must mention Blackpink’s Lisa and her second collaboration timepiece with the Maison. As a surprise, the brand revealed the Bulgari Bulgari x Lisa Limited Edition, a dazzling reference that takes inspiration from the rapper’s favourite flower—edelweiss. Crafted in steel and rose gold, the watch features a mesmerising dial illuminated by mother-of-pearl in a mosaic pattern and diamond hour markers.
HUBLOT
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Trust Hublot to go out of the box for LVMH Watch Week 2024. No dial, no hands and no oscillating weight. Hublot introduced the futuristic MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System, limited to only 50 pieces, that tells time through a roller display, a circular power reserve and an inclined tourbillon automatic winding movement—all of which are housed in a sapphire glass and microblasted titanium case.
The manufacture’s research and development team never rests, engineering unique materials with incredible “wow” factor. The brand has unveiled a new Big Bang Unico watch in a revitalised green Saxem—a highly resistant material like Sapphire but with a brighter appearance, which has been in the works since 2019.
TAG HEUER
TAG Heuer tapped on its Diamant d’Avant-Garde technology for the second time ever with the introduction of the TAG Heuer Carrera Date Plasma 36mm watch featuring a 1.4-carat yellow lab-grown diamond shield on a polycrystalline dial—a vast amount of diamonds growing in unison. The Diamant d’Avant-Garde technology opens the doors to various, bolder, designs as it can create diamonds of all shapes and forms that could disrupt what we already know of luxury watchmaking.
ZENITH
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The ZENITH triple calendar chronograph has been reincarnated in the form of the brand’s new Chronomaster Original Triple Calendar that combines the manufacture’s historic movement and its modern technological advancements like the 1/10th of a second chronograph and the moonphase at 6 o'clock.
The model comes in three distinct dial versions on either a bracelet or a leather strap: a sporty silver white “panda” opaline dial with black counters, a slate-grey dial with silvery-white counters and a special green Boutique edition dial.
The piecé de resistancé: ZENITH’s rose gold Chronomaster Sport, which features a gem-set bezel consisting of baguette-cut diamonds, blue sapphires and black spinels, and a meteorite dial that is hand-finished through a galvanisation process that gives it a golden glow while retaining the unique Windmanstätten pattern that is truly out of this world.