BASELWORLD 2017: LVCEA MOON PHASES – WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

BASELWORLD 2017: LVCEA MOON PHASES – WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Light meets the moon. Bulgari cultivates a keen sense of paradox in delightful and subtle ways. The Roman jeweller plays with contrasts and is ramping up the seduction of its glowing LVCEA by enriching it with moon-phase indications.

The dainty face of the LVCEA Moon Phases is graced with an aperture forming the arc of a circle stretching across the upper part of the mother-of-pearl dial on this luminous round watch, which maintains its perfectly balanced design. Even though LVCEA retains its pure beauty, this detail lends an additional touch of complexity to the dial which draws upon a horological complication in order to emphasise the romantic nature of this model. In a delicate and subtle manner, the sky against which the moon appears takes on a shade matching that of the alligator leather strap: intense blue, bright red or glowing plum purple, depending on the model.

Three options representing a wealth of temptations: a steel version with a pink gold bezel framing a mother-of-pearl dial punctuated by brilliant-cut diamond hour-markers; a more sophisticated 18 carats pink gold interpretation featuring its strap lugs and bezel set with brilliant-cut diamonds; or a white gold variation graced by a bezel set with brilliant-cut diamonds, like the strap lugs. The overall impression is one of seamless osmosis, a love match between the ‘light’ watch and the ‘night star’. This homogenous effect makes the LVCEA Moon Phases supremely easy to wear in any circumstance of a woman’s daily life, whether by day or night.