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6 Artful Timepieces to Covet This Spring

Galerie rounds up the season’s most dazzling women’s watches

By Lucy Rees
Gold wristwatch with green face featuring bee motifs and a textured brown strap.
Gucci’s G-Timeless automatic watch. Photo: Courtesy of Gucci

Each spring, leading luxury brands showcase their newest and most cutting-edge watch designs, and this year’s offerings are no exception. From Graff’s shimmering 18K-gold timepiece that’s dripping with yellow diamonds to Gucci’s automatic watch with a malachite dial, here are some of the season’s most artful accessories.

Luxury gold watch adorned with embedded yellow gemstones, featuring an intricate, elaborate, and decorative design.
Yellow-gold diamond watch. Courtesy of Graff

1. Graff Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond Watch 

This showstopping piece by London-based diamond house Graff features a staggering 211 rare fancy vivid yellow diamonds totaling 59.25 carats set in 18K-yellow gold. Surrounding a diminutive round case containing a Swiss quartz movement, the yellow diamonds—said to have been hand-selected by Mr. Graff himself—are set in a mosaic pattern for maximum color impact.

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Two-tone stainless steel and gold wristwatch with green dial, Roman numerals, and date display at 3 o'clock.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31. Courtesy of Rolex

2. Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31

With an olive-green face, 18K-yellow-gold hands, and sunray dial, this is the latest addition to the Rolex Datejust series. The VI numeral set with 11 diamonds is a particularly splendid detail.

Rose gold serpentine wristwatch with diamond accents and a white face displaying Roman numerals on a luxury brand watch.
Bulgari Seduttori Serpenti. Courtesy of Bulgari

3. Seduttori Bulgari

Bulgari’s seductive new Seduttori Serpenti draws on a long history of the brand’s famed Serpenti collection, but this time it’s been reinvented to be even thinner. In pink, yellow, and white gold, the watch comes with a new flexible bracelet and a case crowned with cabochon-cut gemstones.

luxury watch with blue leather strap, rose gold accents, and intricate exposed mechanical design
Bulgari Octo Roma Tourbillon Sapphire. Courtesy of Bulgari

4. Bulgari Octo Roma Tourbillon Sapphire

Blue watches are one of the standout trends this season, as evidenced by this elegant peacock-blue timepiece by Bulgari. The watch features a transparent face that reveals the watch’s movements while also showcasing a blue middle case beneath an 18K-rose-gold exterior.

Gucci watch with green face, gold bee motifs, and snakeskin-patterned strap, gold bezel, automatic model.
G-Timeless automatic watch. Courtesy of Gucci

5. Gucci G-Timeless Automatic 

Gucci’s whimsical bee motif is sprinkled across this new G-Timeless automatic watch. Set in a 38mm case of 18K-yellow gold, the timepiece comes with stone dials in vibrant green malachite (pictured), black onyx, or brown tiger’s eye with handsome matching lizard straps.

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Luxury watch with a gold rectangular case, abstract blue patterned dial, and blue strap.
Chanel Boyfriend Tweed Art. Courtesy of Chanel

6. Chanel Boyfriend Tweed Art

Chanel’s Boyfriend watches have been a hit since their launch in 2015. This new, 20-piece collection is a chic update and pays homage to Coco Chanel’s love of tweed with a high-fired enamel “tweed” dial. The accessory, set in an 18K-beige-gold case, is powered by a manually wound movement.