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A New Woman's Watch Inspired by an Iconic Chanel Bag
A New Woman's Watch Inspired by an Iconic Chanel Bag
Originally published by Cara Barrett on Hodinkee.
Chanel
is no stranger to the watch game. In fact, the Parisian fashion house
has been on something of a roll lately. It all started a few years ago
with the Boy.Friend, and then last year they made an even bigger splash with their first ever dedicated men's watch, the Monsieur,
which featured an in-house movement developed with none other than
Romain Gauthier. It was a not-so-secret hit with us here at Hodinke, as
one of the more surprising and interesting watches of that year's
Baselworld fair due to the jump-hour Caliber 1. Then, keeping things
going, Chanel followed up with the Première Camélia Skeleton and the Caliber 2 just earlier this year.
The CODE COCO is styled after the clasp of the 2.55 bag and conceals the time when one doesn't need to see it.
Now,
just in time for Paris Fashion Week, Chanel has released the Code
Coco watch in stainless steel, available with or without a diamond-set
bezel. The new jewelry watch is inspired by the iconic (and in my humble
opinion, desirable) Chanel 2.55 purse,
which features a very special clasp. The watch itself is reminiscent of
something you might have seen from 1970s Piaget, with the unique
stainless steel bracelet a major part of the overall package. The black
lacquered dial measures 38.1 x 21.5 mm and there is a high-precision
quartz movement sitting underneath. The rectangular black dial is
bisected by a rotating metal bar that either exposes the time when it is
perpendicular to the bracelet, or conceals the time when parallel to
it. This allows for an unusual and discreet way to wear your watch and
tell time, with the piece itself straddling the watch and bracelet
categories.
On the wrist, the CODE COCO watch wears like a bracelet.
While this is currently a very unusual design and certainly
innovative, it is not the first time that we have seen concealed watches
for women. Van Cleef and Arpels designed the Cadenas in the 1930s,
which championed the hidden dial so that women could check time
discreetly, so as not to offend the company they were with of course.
Van Cleef and Arpels has continued this design tradition in modern
pieces as well. While the movement of the CODE COCO may be quartz, I
myself love a good jewelry watch and think this one is pretty damn cool
(you'll be hearing more from me about this soon, whether you like it or
not).
The Code Coco in stainless steel with diamond-set bezel.
The
Chanel Code Coco starts at $5,000 for the plain stainless steel version
with single .05 carat diamond and $9,100 for the versions in stainless
steel with a diamond-set bezel (with 52 diamonds to be exact). There is
also a limited edition of five pieces that is made in white gold
entirely encrusted with diamonds. This will run you a cool $956,000.
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