The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child, Lilibet.
The couple announced the birth of a sister to their son Archie on Sunday. Lilibet Diana Mountatten-Windsor was born in California on Friday morning.
The Duchess of Sussex has been saving a special gift for her daughter for a number of years.
Prior to moving to London and marrying Prince Harry, Markle was a successful Hollywood actress on the television drama Suits.
It was during her days acting as Rachel Zane that Markle splurged on an expensive and timeless gift to herself, a £4,200 Swiss movement Cartier replica– with the hopes that she would one day pass it on to her daughter.
What better match than a replica timepiece named “Moonwatch” and a dial partially made of lunar meteorite…? It makes sense, don’t you think? Launched to celebrate the relaunch of the legendary Calibre 321, the top quality replica Omega Speedmaster is the top of the range for the lunar watch.
Not only Omega Speedmaster replica with black leather strap houses an absolute masterpiece of mechanical watchmaking, but its case is made of platinum and its dial combines two special materials – which are rare in the context of the Speedy.
The inky black base is made from black onyx and the sub-dials for the chronograph indications are all made with slices of mottled grey lunar meteorite – explaining the pattern, different from a classic iron-nickel meteorite. For the rest, the look is typical Moonwatch and the view through the caseback is simply stunning.
Quick facts: 42mm diameter – Pt950Au20 platinum case – black onyx dial with white gold applied indexes and hands, three meteorite subdials – re-creation of the calibre 321 – hand-wound – black alligator strap – EUR 59,200
Talking of scarcity, this one should be scant. The last time Rolex replica issued a fully gem-set watch must be during the better days of the (almost forgotten by now) Pearlmaster collection. The all-new 28 mm replica Rolex Lady-Datejust ref.219458RBR is entirely garnished with diamonds — bezel, case, dial and President bracelet included. It took no less than 1,089 stones to thoroughly adorn the yellow (or white) gold timepiece. This must be the shiniest, and most expensive Rolex of the past years… or ever.
Oyster Perpetual Lady-Datejust
A little less over-the-top, Rolex is also offering a newly designed Day-Date 36 with fully set case, dial and bezel. It stands out by its touch of colour, which is a new thing for them. The Roman numerals are made of enamel (an extremely rare technique in the Rolex dial workshops). Their colour, coral orange, lagoon blue or purplish burgundy, matches the alligator leather straps’, which is an oddity for high quality copy Rolex.
Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36
It’s just something they’ve been doing forever: creating new dials. Without even thinking of using gems, the 36 mm copy Rolex Datejust welcomes two new motifs. The first one is a palm dial, available in green but also champagne and gray. The other is rather intriguing: Rolex took the shape of the fluting on their bezel, flattened it into a pattern and made a dial with it. It generates an illusion of a 3D surface, a bit like a honeycomb guilloché, which feels surprisingly modern.
