While Hublot pursues innovation in design and function,
as seen with their Big Bang collection, other watchmakers
such as Harry Winston strive to capture beauty and
elegance in their timepieces. Harry Winston utilizes
diamonds to adorn the cases, dials, and bracelets of their
watches, setting the gems into an artistic design on the
watch's face. On the Midnight Moon Phase Diamond
Drops, Harry Winston sets the diamonds on the dial in
such a way to look like cascading and accumulating
Harry Winston Midnight
Diamond Drops 39mm watch
snow, as well as adorning the entire case in diamonds.
The case setting has 91 diamonds, and the dial has 214
diamonds, all of which equal about 1.55 carats. With so
many diamonds, a watch is at risk of becoming gaudy, but
Harry Winston's design – being so deliberate, elegant and
even handed – gives the watch class, beauty, and artistry,
reminding its wearer that our time in this world is just as
beautiful.
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