Backes & Strauss – Piccadilly Princess Royal Colours

Backes & Strauss – Piccadilly Princess Royal Colours NEW

Press Release

The master cutters, polishers and gem setters at Backes & Strauss have reached new heights in the creation of the Piccadilly Princess 'Royal Colours' which, as the name suggests, is a lady's cocktail watch bedecked in a variety of spectacular stones which reflect all the colours of the rainbow - and more.

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No two examples of the Piccadilly Princess Royal Colours will be alike, nor can they be - because each watch is created using a unique hand-picked selection of white and fancy-coloured diamonds which are individually set to create an unrepeatable, one-off pattern.

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Starting with a simple, 18 carat white gold case, the watch is created by hand-setting 'royal colours' diamonds of no fewer than 66 different colour hues and 10 different cuts on the dial, case and bracelet.

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Combining the various cuts (Baguette, Cushion, Marquise, Oval, Pear, Princess, Ascher, Emerald, Heart and Round Brilliant Cut) creates an impression of a piece that has been formed by a happy coincidence of nature, almost as if diamonds had been casually scattered across the watch.

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But closer inspection reveals that each of the 225 stones - one to mark every year since Backes & Strauss was founded - has been set in a process taking hundreds of hours of our master craftsmen.

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Perhaps more remarkable, however, is the sheer rarity of the diamonds that have been used to create the Princess Royal Colours pieces. To yield only a one carat diamond, it is necessary to blast, crush, process and X-ray more than 250 tons of rock; each year, more than 120 million carats are mined, but just a quarter of this quantity is of sufficient quality to be used in the making of jewellery - and, of this, only one in 10 thousand carats is a natural coloured diamonds.

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Technical details:
Size: PC37
Case: 18 carat White Gold case set with Natural Coloured Diamonds
22 diamonds - 9.04 carats
Dial: Set with White and Natural Coloured diamonds
65 diamonds - 3.37 carats
Hands: Sword-shaped hands
Movement: Quartz
Display: Hours and minutes
Bracelet: Jewellery Bracelet in White Gold set with White and Natural Coloured Diamonds
138 diamonds - 26.28 carats
Total carats: 
225 diamonds - 38.69 carats

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