The color green embodies the dawn of a promise, that of the tender rebirth of beings that winter has caught, ankylosed, asleep for long frigid months, of a newfound vitality, nourished by hope, by nature awakening in the sunny mist of a new morning. A better world, a happy world, a fulfilled world: these are the profoundly human values embodied by this hue with its thousand invigorating nuances. Among them, Breguet has chosen the tenderness of turquoise intermingled with azure, the union of earth and sky, to dress the noble, slender silhouette, rounded like a heart in love, of the irresistibly feminine Reine de Naples 8918 watch.
Its oval face is adorned with immaculate mother-of-pearl like a carpet of soft snow, and at its heart, slightly offset downwards, is a disc covered with diamonds of different diameters, arranged one against the other using the snow-set technique. Encircled by a delicate black belt of stars and geometrical symbols that punctuate the minutes in segments of five and fifteen, the small blued Breguet hands with hollowed-out knobs indicate the essential time, driven by the automatic caliber 537/3, which delivers 45 hours of power reserve. Arabic numerals, printed on the iridescent surface with decals combining two different greens – one light to form the body of the character, one dark to highlight it and give it relief – follow the curvature of the dial, while the fire of a pear-cut diamond at 6 o’clock illuminates this elegant scenography. The white gold case, measuring 36.5mm long, 28.45 wide and 10.1 high, is hemmed with two ribbons of 117 gemstones running along the flange and bezel, and features a crown at 4 o’clock punctuated by a briolette. It is attached to the wrist by two strands of alligator leather matching the hour-markers, closed by a diamond-trimmed folding clasp.
