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TRENDS

From the catwalk to the street, from horological complications to extravagant jewellery, from designers in the spotlight to the new modes of transport, our Trends pages illustrate the latest in lifestyle. These cleanly-designed, well-illustrated pages take a sideways look to decipher major shifts in society as they happen, offering a comprehensive, avant-gardist view of today's zeitgeist.
COTE shows you the most complex details with text and pictures.

December 2022

It’s time to dare

Anti-sobriety remedies, each with its stimulus… these new watches play it bold whilst boosting our dopamine levels.

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Louis Vuitton
Hooray for colour.
The dive watch is available in two new fashionable colours to mark the 20th anniversary of Louis Vuitton’s watchmaking. Our favourite? The upbeat version. The Tambour Street Diver Burning Rock, with its stainless steel case and water resistance to 100 m, bursts with a total orange look.

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Audemars Piguet
Let the music play
This music-inspired 43 mm diameter Royal Oak Offshore Automatique features an avant-garde gem setting. The coloured gemstones on the blue aventurine dial evoke a VU-meter, a device displaying audio signal levels.

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Richard Mille
All smiles.
Here’s the RM 88 Tourbillon Automatique Smiley, produced in a limited edition of 50 pieces, filled to the brim with colours and volumes. Powered by the new in-house CRMT7 automatic tourbillon calibre, this playful and poetic creation’s decorative elements are cheerful emanations of the Smiley world: a flower, the sun, a pineapple, a cactus, pink flamingo, and a rainbow.

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Hublot
Aiming for the stars.
At first glance, it’s nothing fancy... Yet Hublot’s latest creation is a striking combination of watchmaking and cooking. Paying tribute to its ambassadors, friends, and Michelin-starred chefs, the Big Bang Unico Gourmet musters Damascus steel (Damasteel), the preferred material for kitchen knives. The strap is cut from apron fabric.

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Hamilton
Energy shot
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The Hamilton Ventura, designed in 1957 by Richard Arbib, impressed the gallery with its innovative electric circuit and daring shape. It’s retro-futuristic lines are now revisited in the Ventura XXL Bright, showcasing a pulse line across the dial that lights up in bold red.

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