Exclusive first look: Raymond Weil's Parsifal

Like your watches with a little cultural nous on the side? Then look no further than Raymond Weil The Swiss watch manufacturer has a long history of producing timepieces with musical inspirations and for 2018 its gone back a century or so Inspired by the Wagnerian opera of the same name, the new Parsifal timepiece from Raymond Weil is an everyday watch with a dressy appeal, the kind of watch you could imagine Wagner wearing, in fact.

Advertisement The eponymous protagonist of Richard Wagner's last opera, Parsifal is a figurehead of purity - a virtue shared by this timepiece Featuring Weil's iconic bezel adorned with gadroons, for the first time the watch is available in a bimetal model, pairing yellow gold and steel Nomos adds two new dial colours to its stellar Orion range.

TAG Heuer, Tissot and Montblanc lead the charge in vintage-inspired watches. . Source