All colors of the rainbow in the new watch Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' by Backes & Strauss

27.02.2014

The company Backes & Strauss is another creation, in which harmoniously watchmaking and jewelry is blended - a new watch Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours'. The company particularly pleased those women who prefer unique creations as to find two identical pieces of Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' watch cannot be found. Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' watch is created using carefully selected white and colored diamonds, which are hand-fitted to the whole structure.

Backes & Strauss Piccadilly Princess Royal Colours watch

Basis of Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' watch is case made of 18-carat white gold, which as the dial and bracelet is set with diamonds of different colors of 66 shades and about 10 different cutting. Each of the 225 diamonds symbolizes the year of the founding of the company Backes & Strauss. It took masters over hundreds of hours of painstaking work.

The main feature of Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' watch is the extreme rarity of used diamonds. To get one carat, it is necessary to process more than 250 tons of rock. Annual production of about 120 million carats, but only a quarter of that has a sufficiently high quality to be used in making jewelry.

Backes & Strauss Piccadilly Princess Royal Colours watch

The watch case is decorated with 22 diamonds (9.04 carats), dial - 65 diamonds (3, 37 carats), bracelet - 138 diamonds (26.28 carats). Total number of diamonds is 225, and the total weight is 38.39 carats.
Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' watch is based on quartz movement, displaying function of hours and minutes.

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Written by Freya

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