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Portfolio Prefers: Statement Watches to Slip On Now

24 Mar 2017

Timepieces that boast brilliant colors and unique shapes, which are sure to grab anyone's attention with a flash of your wrist

Whether worn for special occasions or as a statement piece to complete your daily look, these are our top statement-making timepieces that boast modern elegance and unique fashion-forward flair.

Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Moonphase

HUBLOT SPIRIT OF BIG BANG MOONPHASE

Usher in the intensity of summer with Hublot’s colorful Spirit of Big Bang Moonphase collection, infused with bright monochrome shades. Clad in the season’s on-trend colors, choose between indigo blue for denim lovers, bold purple for an ultraviolet look, vibrant orange for an upbeat take on time, and bubblegum pink for a rose-tinted outlook. Brilliant shades aside, the watch also boasts the iconic 42 mm tonneau case, quartz dial, sandblasted moon phase disc, and a glittery stone-set bezel.

  • HM7 Aquapod
  • HM7 Aquapod
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MB&F HM7 ‘AQUAPOD’

History lesson: MB&F is an artistic and micro-engineering laboratory that designs and crafts a small series of concept watches by bringing together talented horological professionals. Founded by Maximillian Büsser, the former managing director at Harry Winston, MB&F unveiled its first watch in 2007. Ten years later, the HM7 ‘Aquapod’ was born, a timepiece that’s uniquely inspired by jellyfish — from its radially symmetric form to its tentacle-like automatic winding rotor. While not a dive watch, the HM7 is a timepiece that’s also at home in the water, possessing a unidirectional rotating bezel that floats apart, calling to mind a life buoy.

PANERAI LAB-ID

PANERAI LAB-ID

With only 50 units made, the PANERAI LAB-ID is a limited edition watch that brings together the best of the Florentine brand’s strengths. First, it features the timeless design of the Luminor 1950 collection, and secondly, is infused with a series of technological innovations that cleverly draws inspiration from its own past as it writes the future of high quality watchmaking. With brilliant development that taps into the infinite potential of carbon, this new timepiece fully boasts exceptional characteristics like a deep black dial, as well as movement that needs to lubrication.