To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Boucheron, the celebrated jeweller of the Place Vendome, has decided to create unique objects in collaboration with international brand names: the manufacturer of luxury mobile phones Vertu, jewellery designer Harumi Klossowska, la Maison du chocolat and Richard Mille.

Richard Mille, famous for his pioneering spirit, has managed to reinvent watchmaking with the use of innovative materials and technologies to come up with 21st-century horology. The Parisian jeweler, has designed the “Hommage à Boucheron” RM 018 timepiece which an incredible piece in which the gear-train of the movement is manufactured from precious and semi-precious stones.

Both firms have a hand in the production of this tourbillon watch brimming with elegance and refinement: The tourbillon watch has a case and movement produced by Richard Mille and features the precious and semi-precious stones selected and elaborated by Boucheron.

Each tourbillon wristwatch will possess a unique nature : Limited to 30 pieces individual pieces in 18K white gold, the edition will in fact consist solely of unique pieces due to the different combinations of stones.

The latest watch in Piaget’s Polo Tourbillon Relatif series will delight fans of the city of Paris. The new watch, which will be shown at the upcoming SIHH 2008 watch and jewelry show has a mechanical hand-wound one minute flying tourbillon and uses the Manufacture Piaget caliber 608P movement. The dial features names of famous Parisians.The coolness factor here though is on the sides of the watch. The sides of the watch are decorated with amazingly intricate etchings of the city. The design shows monuments such as the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and others. No details on price or production are available yet.