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Watch Review: Girard-Perregaux Free Bridge
Just a few years ago, a product like the Girard-Perregaux Free Bridge would probably not have been made because products like this are part of a relatively new luxury timepiece category that is still being defined. At under $20,000, the Free Bridge is by no means an inexpensive product, but it is meant to capture a lot of the same emotion as watches costing $100,000 or $200,000, and up. Many of these watches have elaborate designs with exotic movements and a large emphasis on dial visuals and animation. Where they save costs is by having less complicated movements that are produced using more industrial means. One way to think of these watches is as “entry-level super-watches,” in the same way that there might be an entry-level supercar. More so, the Free Bridge watch is currently the most accessible model within the larger “Bridges” product family by Girard-Perregaux.The Free Bridge watch is a sporty-looking dress watch that is meant for social and formal wear.
Richard Mille RM 07-02 Pink Lady Sapphire Automatic Watch
Richard Mille, the flamboyant, chateau-dwelling Frenchman, is never short of a trick or two. With the embellishing release of the Richard Mille RM 07-02 Pink Lady Sapphire Automatic watch, the brand looks to narrow the gender divide that exists in the industry’s clientele. This is an incredibly arresting piece thanks to the pink sapphire case. It may not be the first sapphire case Richard Mille has produced, but it is the first for ladies, and one of the first truly pink watches in this echelon of horology.Richard Mille has looked to the 1930s for inspiration. In that decade, the role of women in society was becoming ever more prominent, and opportunities for high-born socialites were more plentiful than ever before. In an effort to feminise the openly chauvinistic club scene of the times, the Pink Lady cocktail was introduced. Serving the drink was tantamount to rolling-out the welcome mat to the fairer sex. It is the intention of Richard Mille to invite a wider selection of mod