Diamonds for diamonds sake? Maybe not. Don’t overlook the importance of ludicrously gilded timepieces in the haute joaillerie watch category. While such timepieces might wreak of excess, they are often times as complex, or more complex than the mechanical creations we so love. The process of choosing and cutting diamonds (not to mention setting them) is in credibly time consuming. All that in a white gold case with a automatic tourbillon mechanical movement – and you might just start saving up gold bars for this over $1.3 million impulse buy.

Read my article on the Blancpain Spécialités Tourbillon Diamants Watch at Haute Living here.

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