Top 10 watches at Baselworld 2017

Baselworld 2017 had a plethora of luxury timepieces to behold, but these 10 surprised and delighted us most:

Jaquet Droz – Petite Heure Minute

Jaquet Droz Ateliers d’Art is known for its mastery of creating beautiful dials, and this year it presented some serious novelties.

 

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We especially loved the Petite Heure Minute collection, which pairs Grand Feu enamel with miniature painting to extraordinary effect.

Three versions are available: lion, carp and flamingo, all of which feature vivid colours that beautifully complement the deep black of the dial.

The flamingo version comes with 248 diamonds studded on the case. Each version is limited to 28 pieces.

Breguet – Marine Équation Marchante 5887

This timepiece from Breguet is grand complication at its best, and features a tourbillon, true equation of time and a perpetual calendar. The complication that stole the show, however, is the true equation of time, which is the difference between mean solar time (also known as “civil time”) and true solar time (actual sun time), which can range from minus 16 minutes to plus 14 minutes.