Just like anything else in the fashion industry, watches are susceptible to trends.
One of the hottest trends this year has been the use of stone dials.
In the past year, watches with stone dials have seen increasing interest from collectors around the world. So, what are stone dial watches? Simply a watch where the traditional metal dial, which is usually made from brass or gold, is replaced by a very thin layer of beautiful stone.
To make a dial out of hard stone, the craftsperson needs to cut and polish an incredibly thin and precise layer of the stone which captures the pattern they want the dial to display. Stone dials are always unique, as the stone used to create the dials is natural, and it is therefore impossible to find two with identical patterns.
The dial must be thin to ensure that the watch doesn’t become uncomfortably heavy. This is incredibly difficult to do without breaking the stone, and it does mean that watches with stone dials tend to be very fragile. The high failure rates of creating these very thin stone dials means that these watches are inevitably very expensive.
The first stone dial watches were released by Piaget in the 1960s, and were sold as a new type of dress watch. They often had gold cases, a simple two hand design, and came on either leather straps or ornate solid metal bracelets brackets.
Listed below are a few beautiful examples of watches with stone dials.
Mark Sirianni
25 Fraley St.
Kane, PA. 16735
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1-814-558-4818 Cell
1-814-837-9435
Charley
2012-2024
