Dust off your leg-warmers and strap into a neon bandana, Frederique Constant is taking us back to the era of 1980s discos.
Frederique Constant’s life-long refrain has been that Swiss watches should be attainable by anybody and desirable to everybody, and its early collections showed it wanted to shake up the neglected ladies’ market.
This included watches with heart-shaped apertures and other feminine adornments on classical mid-sized pieces and more fashion-led designs like the Manchette, which briefly made an appearance in the eary-2000s as a 1980s-style cuff or jewelry bracelet with small integrated watch dials.
Two decades later and Frederique Constant is bringing the family back, renamed as Classics Manchette, and described as wristwear that is as light-hearted as it is cheeky in its design
“This isn’t about tradition; it’s about rebellion,” the brand overstates. “It’s a distinctive zeitgeist, lifestyle and fashion sense that Frederique Constant revived with brio in the early 2000s”.
Be they watches, jewelry or accessories, the range hits current trends including downsized wristwear, stone dials and mixing jewelry and watches.
The collection shares a seven-link bracelet with Clou de Paris pyramids with small square quartz timekeepers built in.
There is a version with green of malachite and a second in black of onyx.
Top of the polished-steel line is a piece with 158 pave-set diamonds.