From Grieb & Benzinger
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August 8th 2014 (8.8.2014) was a lucky day for a passionate Chinese
watch collector who was born in the year of the dragon and therefore addicted
to dragon collectables. After 8 months of waiting, a very special BLUE DRAGON IMPERIAL
has been handed over to his lucky owner. A personal bespoke (time)piece of art,
made with the best materials and full of personal meanings for the owner. The dragon has always been the symbol of
imperial power – a symbol for happiness, peace, protection and destiny. And
since 8 is the Chinese lucky number, this dragon project was blessed with
triple luck.
The BLUE DRAGON
IMPERIAL alludes to and
combines Chinese mythology with the craftsmanship of GRIEB & BENZINGER, for
which the workshop is famed. This outstanding watch impresses by its amazing skeleton dragon which is
fully skeletonized out of the movement itself and majestically floats within
the case. Historical handicrafts and fine skills are exhibited by GRIEB & BENZINGER within this BLUE
DRAGON IMPERIAL watch:
hand-skeletonization, hand-guilloché, hand-engraving and of course fine
watchmaking.
The blue platinum
coated movement is tribute to very rare historical Swiss watch making roots: Blue movements have mainly been built for the Chinese
market in imperial China of the Qing Dynasty under Emperors Jia Qing and Dao
Guang. GRIEB & BENZINGER
is lucky enough to own one of these very rare original blue watch movements
(made by Charles Oudin in about 1820) - the
historical roots comes full circle.
As with every GRIEB
& BENZINGER creation, this is an exceedingly rare timepiece. This bespoke
BLUE DRAGON IMPERIAL comes in a solid 18K
palladium-white gold case and a bezel set 66 finest Princess cut diamonds. The
price tag hit the US $ six digit region, but this is not a big surprise
realizing it’s again a bespoke handmade GRIEB & BENZINGER.
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