7 Year of the Pig luxury watches you would want to flaunt this Lunar New Year

Check out the Lunar New Year timepieces dedicated to the approaching Year of the Pig, with a number of them included in the watchmaker's limited-edition collections Vacheron Constantin, the Swiss luxury watchmaker, presents two references of its Year of the Pig watch - each one inspired by ancient Chinese art of "Jianzhi", or paper-cutting The Metiers d'Art The Legend of the Chinese zodiac: Year of the Pig watch has no hands; instead the watchmaker opted to display the time and date through four apertures on the "Corners" of the timepiece - freeing up space on the dial for the artisans to realise their vision - a piggy engraved in gold and platinum against an enamelled background.

Panerai's adorable-looking piglet is engraved on the cover of its Luminor Sealand's Year of the Pig timepiece Like the 10 zodiac pieces that came before it, only 88 pieces of the hand-engraved Year of Pig watch will be made Piaget has added to its collection of Chinese zodiac watches, which first appeared in 2012, with its Year of the Pig Altiplano timepiece.

The Swiss maison uses this same technique to recreate a colourful forest setting and an adorable, big-bellied golden pig for its L.U.C XP Urushi Year of the Pig watch. . Source