Here is the best in my opinion of the Bestiary Ronde Seconde Folle Watch collection by
Boucheron. Like the frog model the Owl continues with the "googly" eye theme where the Owl's eye located at 7 o'clock is a small disc for the seconds where the pupil moves around and rotates fully each minute. Dark purple tones allude to the night, where this watch model is most at home. The indigo color also works well with the 42mm wide 18k gray gold case and slightly darker gray tone of the owl character. Again, Boucheron uses diamonds and various colors of sapphires, rubies, and tsavorites to decorate both versions of the watch from the more subdued version to that where the owl takes over the face and bezel of the watch. The whimsy of the timepiece is almost Disney worthy.
Again, as is for the rest of the Bestiary Ronde Seconde Folle collection, inside is the Girard Perregaux GP 4000 automatic movement. It is about all you could hope for in a watch with beauty, humor, character, high quality construction, and a haute horology attitude. The right women will be so taken by the entire collection as to want all six models of the three animals; the Chameleon, the Frog, and the Owl. Likely available soon where Boucheron timepieces and jewelry are sold.
Ariel Adams publishes the
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eric bonwit Jun 13th 2009 1:07PM
Ariel: Could you occasionally throw in some watches that AREN'T ugly like these animal jeweled watches. Also, if could, it would be VERY nice (and helpful) if you could include the prices.
Ariel Adams Jun 13th 2009 8:04PM
Hi Eric,
Sorry if you feel like the watches are ugly, I think they are quite neat looking, but I appreciate your opinion. You have to realize that I cover most of the watches that are coming out today. So if you don't like most of the watches that I cover, it just means you don't like a lot of the watches that are coming out today - and there is nothing wrong with that.
I try to include prices whenever they are available, but watch makers don't often make this information available too easily. When it is not available I typically guess the price based on what I know. When I have no basis for guessing, I would rather not mention the price as opposed to giving some estimate that might be way, way off. Hope that clears things up and thanks for commenting.