Take three horological magicians named Bartkowiak, Grieb and Benzinger, the famous gold town of Pforzheim and a creative base camp at the Daetzingen Castle in Grafenau. Leave the wizards of skeleton watches alone with these amazing influences and just wait. Before long you’ll get wind of something special being concocted, snippets will slip out that they are working on something new. Each and every time they lock themselves away, something magnificent results from this special collaboration and as always they have not disappointed.
Introducing the Grieb & Benzinger white gold collection: Shades of Grey.
Over the past few years, we have had the pleasure of showcasing the stunning range of gold and platinum watches from these master watchmakers. Of these two beautiful metals, for us, it’s platinum and white gold that best visually complements the intricacies of the detailed workmanship on their timepieces, and to our delight it is white gold that has been chosen for the Shades of Grey Collection. Let’s start with the name ‘Shades of Grey’, to many this conjurs up the trilogy of novels by E.L. James, the novel has already achieved worldwide success and acclaim and we have no doubt that the offerings from Grieb & Benzinger will do the same.
The Shades of Grey collection consists of seven stunning watches, as with all of the company’s watches, it’s the attention to detail and visual beauty that has become their hallmark.
The GREY POLARIS, housed in discreet white gold with grey-colored visible movement components, was created at the behest of a technology-obsessed architect from Asia. The base dial, guilloché and semi-skeletonized by hand, was coated with black rhodium for this edition, while the applied, skeletonized dial was coated with a lighter-colored rhodium, which changes among various shades of grey depending upon the light.
The GREY TULIP fulfills the wish of an Eastern European client who had already become enamored of the successful BLACK TULIP. In the end, he desired an almost identical, less ostentatious version that does not reveal its true value at first glance so that he can wear “his” new skeleton watch anytime, anywhere.
The GREY TULIP IMPERIAL including the finest Princess-cut diamonds set into the bezel and the GREY TULIP Diamond set with high-grade brilliant-cut diamonds on the bezel and lugs fulfilled the dream of a client in the Middle East, who was also fascinated by the successful BLACK TULIP but prefers cool white gold. Thanks to his weakness for high-grade diamonds, a special bezel containing the finest Top Wesselton Princess-cut diamonds was created as well as a second version with the finest Top Wesselton brilliant-cut diamonds on the bezel and lugs.
Shades of Grey, GREY POLARIS
Guilloché and semi-skeletonized Sterling silver dial with black rhodium and an applied skeletonized dial, movement including in-house modifications (hour and minute modifications) fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. Solid 750/000 18- palladium-white gold case 43 mm in diameter and grey alligator-skin strap with 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold buckle.
Shades of Grey, Skeleton Watch GREY TULIP
Fully skeletonized watch with floral pattern – elegant, exceptional. Movement fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. Solid 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold case 43 mm in diameter and grey alligator-skin strap with 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold buckle.
Shades of Grey, Skeleton Watch GREY TULIP IMPERIAL
Fully skeletonized watch with floral pattern – elegant, exceptional. Movement fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. Solid 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold case 43 mm in diameter with finest Princess-cut diamonds and grey alligator-skin strap with 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold buckle.
Shades of Grey, Skeleton Watch GREY TULIP DIAMOND
Fully skeletonized watch with floral pattern – elegant, exceptional. Movement fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. Solid 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold case 43 mm in diameter. Bezel and lugs set with 77 of the finest brilliant-cut diamonds, grey alligator-skin strap with 750/000 18-karat palladium-white gold buckle.
You must be logged in to post a comment.