Watches & Wonders 2020: ladies first

The enamel artist heats the enamel powder to glass, then draws out threads to form the bamboos in the foreground of the dial, held by strands of yellow gold Delicately hammered over every inch of its surface, from the 23 x 23mm of its square steel case to the expanse of its dial, the Cape Cod comes alive to the play of light across its dimpled surface The case, in red gold, opens onto a white dial with nothing but subsidiary seconds at 6 o'clock.

Then green, will red be the next shade to set the watch world alight? Even the Reverso has draped its iconic Art Deco rectangle with the colour of passion in this Reverso One, a ladylike 40 x 20mm The elongated case, inspired by the first Reverso Lady in 1931, frames a bold wine-red dial, a shade obtained through successive applications of lacquer on a guilloché sunburst ground that gives wonderful flamboyance to this icon in steel and diamonds Salvador Dalí, Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Cary Grant and Sammy Davis Jr.

all fell for the hardstone dials that made Piaget the watch to wear in the Swinging Sixties and Groovy Seventies The asymmetric case, measuring 32mm, in white gold is paved with 57 diamonds in a "Serti Descendu" setting, while the dial is in aventurine glass For women who expect their watch to bring mechanical sophistication and aesthetic refinement in equal measure, this Traditionnelle Tourbillon has it all: the harmonious proportions of its 39mm case in pink gold set with diamonds; the gentle femininity of a dial in iridescent mother-of-pearl, and the flawless precision of an in-house Calibre 2160 movement with a power reserve lasting for three days. Source