For its seventh edition, the Geneva gathering brought together 71 brands and more than 2,500 collectors and enthusiasts. Among the pieces that stood out, Arthur Frydman singles out bimbu, a maison « born of a certain idea of luxury, one that prefers rightness to ostentation ». The journalist sums up its identity in three self evident choices: titanium for its lightness, an iconic movement rethought and decorated, and natural stone, selected one by one, which makes each watch « a singular object rather than a series ».
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Launched just one year ago, the Patrium collection is enriched with four new interpretations. Le Point first turns to the Patrium Lapis Lazuli: a deep blue Afghan stone occupies almost the entire dial, a snow setting of 132 diamonds animates the small seconds and baguette diamond indexes mark the hours. On the back, the same stone encircles the movement, a Peseux 7001 base revised and decorated by Concepto.\n At the opposite end from the ancient mineral, the Patrium Silicium opens, according to the magazine, « a more contemporary chapter ». Impervious to magnetic fields as well as to thermal variations, monocrystalline silicium gives the dial an unprecedented hue, answered by a small seconds in quartzite of pure whiteness. Two stones, two readings of a single gesture: that of a maison which, according to Le Point, « does not seek to shine brighter, but to hold the gaze longer ».
Thank you to Le Point and to Arthur Frydman for this attentive look at bimbu.
