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5 Dazzling New High-Jewelry Watches to Add Some Holiday Sparkle

Brilliant new timepieces encrusted with diamonds and colored gemstones make an impact this winter

By Lucy Rees
Collection of luxury watches with intricate designs, featuring diamonds and colorful gemstones on a light blue background.
High-jewelry watches by Cartier, Hermes, Harry Winston, and Buccellati. Photo: Courtesy of the brands
Luxurious diamond-encrusted bracelet watch with intricate geometric pattern and elegant design.
Medor Haute Joaillerie. Photo: Couresty of Hermes

1. Hermès

Inspired by the French maison’s history of crafting dog collars, the Hermès Médor Haute Joaillerie watch sparkles with a 196-diamond case surrounding its hidden dial and 601 gradated diamonds wrapping around the wrist.

Luxury watch with blue and green enamel design, diamond accents, and intricate decorative details on the bracelet.
Buccellati’s Bluebell watch. Photo: Courtesy of Buccellati

2. Buccellati

Buccellati’s Bluebell watch features an abstract flower-shaped white-gold case, overlapping petal motifs, and an eye-catching combination of 897 diamonds with painterly green and blue enamel. 

Luxurious jeweled watch with colorful gems and a black strap, featuring an intricate stone-encrusted watch face.
Harry Winston Kaleidoscope watch. Photo: Courtesy of Harry Winston

3. Harry Winston 

Harry Winston’s Kaleidoscope timepiece captures the whimsy and magic of the hypnotic, mirrored instrument with brilliant-, pear-, and marquise-cut diamonds; Paraíba tourmalines; blue and pink sapphires; and tsavorites.

 

Luxurious silver and sapphire watch adorned with diamonds and intricate details, featuring a delicate mother-of-pearl face.
Van Cleef & Arpels watch. Photo: Courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels watch.

4. Van Cleef & Arpels

An homage to the atelier’s iconic Ludo design from the 1930s, this one-of-a-kind Ludo Secret boasts a dial hidden beneath a sapphire buckle fashioned using Van Cleef & Arpels’s signature Mystery Set technique. 

Luxurious diamond and gemstone encrusted watch with a serpentine design and intricate detailing on the band and face.
Cartier watch. Photo: Courtesy of Cartier

5. Cartier 

The high-jewelry Maillon de Cartier watch showcases an 18K-white-gold bracelet set with a tessellation of 301 brilliant-cut diamonds and 96 tsavorites, while the diamonds on the dial are offset with flecks of blue and green lacquer.

A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2020 Winter issue under the headline “Magic Hour.” Subscribe to the magazine.