Corum Vintage Collection Watches: Golden Tube & Chinese Hat

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Oct 1st 2010 at 12:01PM

As part of a series of three vintage re-releases, these are the Corum Golden Tube and Chinese Hat women's jewelry watches. I will discuss the third watch in the new Vintage collection soon. Around the mid 20th century you could get away with a woman's watch shaped like a can of beans in gold covered in diamonds. You could also get away with a watch nicknamed the Chinese Hat (because it sort of resembled that). Corum is likely going to using the French word for that which is "Chapeau Chinois."

Both of these watches are going to be limited editions, coming in either 18k rose or white gold, and with mother-of-pearl or diamond studded faces. Even the MOP faces have diamond hour markers. Each of the versions is limited to just 30 pieces per style. The Golden tube is 30mm wide while the Chinese Hat is 34mm wide. Both are certainly elegant (in their own retro way), and have Swiss quartz movements, lots of high-quality diamonds, and thin alligator straps.

Between these two I like the Golden Tube more. Probably because there are so many things to compare it to. Tin can is one thing. It could also be a beer can, and my favorite, the large side-mounted fuel tanks on a big rig. Keep on truckin' "diamond style" Corum...

Ariel Adam publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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