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DeLaneau Open Magic Watch

Open Magic is the newest collection of luxury timepieces for women from DeLaneau. I have a deep level of respect for the brand and am waiting for them to hopefully design a men's watch - not sure if that will ever happen as they seem pretty dedicated to be a watch for sophisticate women, by a sophisticated woman. The Open Magic watch comes in a few styles. The main designer elements include the unique strap and lugs system. A gold coil connects to the satin strap - that on the other end has double straps. The attractive case is almost Bell Epoque and art deco in style.

The watch dial itself is done in black onyx with triangular segments in mother-of-pearl (or vice versa). It has dauphine style hands and diamond hour markers. Diamond are found all over the bezel and case - with varying amounts of stones available as the Open Magic watch is offered with about 1.56 carats of diamonds to 5 carats of diamonds. Inside the watch is a Swiss mechanical movement. Really a stunning item and worthy of the Delaneau name.

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

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Delaneau Amazone Blueberries & Rectangular Dôme Invisible Damier Watches

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

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Creative women's watch maker Delaneau offers up two new timepieces that use their jumping hour/jumping minute mechanical movement. These provocative jewelry creations are visually interesting, and have a welcome old-world feel to them. As though the designs are from the past, but served up fresh in these two new watches.

Both pieces feature the brand's caliber 1608 automatic movement that has discs to display the hours and minutes that move immediately (as opposed to slowly) when the time is right.

The Amazone Blueberries watch is 42mm wide in 18k white gold with about 10.5 carats of large baguette cut diamonds on the bezel. There are much more brilliant cut diamonds on the dial as the leaves, while the blueberries are done in large blue sapphire cabochons. Really a lovely art jewelry piece with a nice movement. The strap is blue satin mixed with crocodile.

With the Rectangular Dôme Invisible Damier watch, Delaneau plays with decorative textures on a watch that reminds me a little hand bag with handle on the top in terms of the shape. The watch is 40mm wide and also in 18k white gold. Again you have about 20 carats of diamonds and sapphire on the case, and another large set of baguette cut diamonds and sapphires on the dial. It has a similar style of blue satin and crocodile strap as the Amazone Blueberries.

Such play with high-jewelry watches and blue and white colors makes for a nice tone with winter season from Delaneau. Such watches are incredible expensive, but beautiful nonetheless.

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

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DeLaneau Amazone Jumping Hours Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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The DeLaneau Amazone Jumping Hours watch devotes such a small amount of its dial to actually telling the time it hardly seems like a watch at all. The 42mm case is 18K rose gold and has 639 diamonds weighing 3.7 carats. The dial has 163 baguette diamonds totally just over 10 carats and the floating leafy flower design on top adds another 342 diamonds weighing 1 carat. It has a crystal is sapphire and it is water resistant to 30 meters though I can't imagine why you'd wear it anywhere near water. The movement is the automatic DeLaneau caliber DEL1608 with jumping hour complication and has 21 jewels and a power reserve of 54 hours.

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