Celebrate the Year of the Horse with Harry Winston

The House of Harry Winston celebrates the Chinese Year of the Horse with a luxurious rose gold timepiece from its Harry Winston Moments Collection. Brought to life with vibrant red lacquer, the fiery horse on the dial embodies the independence, power, and adventurous spirit associated with the seventh animal of the Chinese Zodiac.

The vibrant three-dimensional scene on the dial is depicted in shades of red and gold. Featured during Chinese New Year celebrations, festivities, and weddings, the marriage of red and gold is the apogee of good luck, signaling joy and prosperity for the year ahead.

Commanding center stage is a delightful depiction of a fiery-red horse captured in an energetic, triumphant pose. Rising on its hind legs with its forelegs off the ground, the free-spirited horse soars beyond all earthly restraints to embark upon a celestial adventure.

Transmitting power tempered by grace, the figure of the horse is applied to the dial and its body embellished with hand-applied red lacquer. Cambered surfaces add volume and exalt the horse’s muscular physique, while the red hand-lacquered details contrast with the yellow and orange lacquered mane flowing in an invisible breeze.

The billowing clouds at the base of the dial are handcrafted using mother-of-pearl marquetry, a refined and delicate technique that involves cutting and inserting thin slivers of mother-of-pearl within the borders. In Chinese culture, clouds symbolize good fortune and serve as a direct link between heaven and earth. In this artistic rendering, the horse abandons the earthly realm and gallops across a golden mother-of-pearl sky shimmering with three-dimensional stars and cabochons towards the brightest heavenly lights, represented by eight marquise-cut diamonds.

Set against a red mother-of-pearl horseshoe-shaped arch, the dazzling marquise-cut diamonds mark the hours and increase in size as they reach the iridescent white clouds below. A signature of the House, the magnificent emerald-cut diamond gracing the dial at 6 o’clock is a nod to one of Mr. Winston’s favorite gemstone cuts.