This is somewhat of an obvious piece once I stopped to think about it. Paris, mostly as an abstract feeling of "love" or a distillation of the architecture, has become a popular theme in jewelry and watches, take Van Cleef or Louis Vuitton, for example. Philippe Tournaire (previously mentioned) is most noted for his architectural, as in representing actual buildings rather then the vague term that has come to mean "massive", jewelry, in particular rings. He's already done a series of Paris rings, and so it wasn't a huge leap to do a Paris wristwatch Paris Forever, with a tourbillon movement base by Technotime.
The watch consists of a double-bezel, set with small white and yellow diamonds, set on 4 columns which suspend it over the movement and caseback, as the sides are sapphire. This setup gives you a better view into the massively thick movement which represents, in tiny form multiple Parisian monuments:
- The Trocadero gardens, identifiable by the blue-diamond at the center of the fountain
- The Louvre, seen from the Académie Française
- The Pont Neuf, set with white diamonds and the top ruby bearing of the tourbillon
- The sweep of the Eiffel tower up the Champs Elysee to the Arc de Triomphe
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