In the watch market, you can always find a timepiece for men to wear. However, for ladies, it is not the same story. In majority, most of the brands aim to attract the male customers through the complicated machinery, delicate design and fine craftsmanship. In addition, the accuracy, the total number of the assembling components and assembling processes are attracting men strongly. On the other hand, the focuses of ladies are rather on the appearance and utility of the watches. Not only is it eye-catching, but it also should be fashionable to match with different costumes. As time is changing, more ladies start to collect the timepieces and admire the beauty of machinery. Apart from the appearance, they will care more about the craftsmanship. If the design and the mechanism of the timepiece are wonderful, they will definitely treat it as invaluable masterpiece.
Hong Kong actress – Ms. Priscilla Ku, a GIA jewelry appraiser and designer, has been enthusiastic on the jewelry design for many years. She aims to merge her fashion sense with the traditional jewelry design. The fashionable appearance and magnificent function are penetrated successfully in her designs. Furthermore, she has designed an extraordinary phase on her artworks that accessory can be divided and assembled to feature with different apparels which enhances the utility and freshness of the jewelry.
Recently, Ms. Priscilla Ku has worked with a Hong Kong tourbillon brand – Memorigin for creating her own brand – KuTour. Two separate tourbillon series, Typhoon and Tweed, are launched under the timeless effort of Memorigin and Ms. Priscilla Ku.
Typhoon is a tourbillon watch based on the satellite image of a typhoon passing through China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. On the dial, the curve lines represent the isobars of the satellite image. With diamonds in different colours encircled, they form the continental and ocean alike. In the middle, it is the location of Hong Kong. The typhoon is transformed into rotating tourbillon. Besides, the harmony among China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is the extraordinary blessing from the watch design. By using different diamonds with different colours, the details and shining gems enriched everyone’s eyesight. If you wear it in a grand occasion, you must be grabbing all the attention from everyone. Even wearing in the casual apparel, senses of fashion and elegance will be expressed.
For another collection, Tweed, the design inspiration comes from the checked woolen cloth pattern with a simple colour tone. In order to form the interweave effect of the woolen cloth perfectly, different kind of gems were assembled like the black gems, sapphire, diamonds and grey diamonds. Thus, the jewelry workers spent unlimited working hours on the cutting process to imitate the sophisticated pattern of the woolen cloth. Apart from the special design on the appearance, a deep inspiration about life is implied. She aims to express the true meaning of harmony.
Just like the pattern of the fabric, the circular outlook with rectangular inner design implies the concept of Chinese proverbs “following the rule and act wisely”. Through the learning of time, a very positive value can be achieved.
In horology, tourbillon watch is one of the most complicated technologies in timepieces industry. KuTour merges the modern beauty of ladies with sophisticated machinery perfectly. Both appearance and meaningful content definitely create the legend of KuTour.
About Typhoon
Retail price: HKD $428,000
Model No.
KU 0901
Case
18K Platinum diamond embedded stainless-steel case
Watch diameter: approx. 40mm
Both sides sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 5ATM
Movement
Flying tourbillon
158 pieces of subassembly module and 23 jewels
Frequency: 28,800 oscillations/ hour
Features
60 hours power reserve
The tourbillion located at 6 o'clock rotate at a speed of 60s for one circle
Manual winding mechanism
Dial
Diamond embedded satellite cloud image dial
Dauphine hands
Strap
White Manta Ray strap
About Tweed
Retail price: HKD $368,000
Model No.
KU 1224
Case
18K Platinum diamond embedded stainless-steel case
Watch diameter: approx. 40mm
Both sides sapphire crystal
Water resistance: 5ATM
Movement
Flying tourbillon
158 pieces of subassembly module and 23 jewels
Frequency: 28,800 oscillations/ hour
Features
60 hours power reserve
The tourbillion located at 6 o'clock rotate at a speed of 60s for one circle
Manual winding mechanism
Dial
Diamond embedded satellite cloud image dial
Dauphine hands
Strap
Black alligator strap
KuTour Designer - Words from Priscilla Ku
At 18, before becoming an artist, I starting working in the jewelry industry and I have never left. I was inspired to work in design at an early age and am glad to be continuing that work today. In addition to designing jewelry I also have a passion for painting, writing and interior design.
KuTour symbolizes my next journey. It is a combination of my family name and the word tour (journey) from Tourbillon.
About the project - From the beginning I was inspired and excited to work on this crossover project. I wanted to put my artistic creativity into designing unique watches. The result of that inspiration and hard work is, Typhoon and Tweed. Additionally, special thanks to Mr. Shum Mak Ling (Memorigin) and Richard Chan (YQL) whose efforts made this project possible.