Boucheron Crafts a New Vintage with Reflet XL Chateau Latour

Just how recherche’ can a watch be? Well, simply to be a Boucheron puts a timepiece pretty far up the scale. But when Boucheron itself feels obliged to lard on the luxe, it is clear that the competition out there – crisis notwithstanding – is getting pretty tough.

This being Boucheron, which knows whereof it speaks on all things high-end, the new Reflet XL Chateau Latour is not simply another diamond encrusted bauble the relection of which could knock you down at 100 paces.

No, this is a luxury watch for the aficionado – it has a Girard-Perregaux GP400 automatic movement - that is also a luxury wine-lover’s dream object, cunningly combining two great passions of the unfeasibly wealthy in a way that is both understated and elegant.

The starring feature of Reflet XL Chateau Latour Millesime 2005, to give it its full name, is a marquetry dial fashioned out of the same 200-year-old oak in which the great French vineyard’s fabulous 2005 vintage Pauillac was aged.

That lustrous brown dial – it has a barrel motif at its centre and if you get close enough you can just detect a bouquet that is powerful yet refined (only kidding) – has arabic numerals at the even numbers, a date window at 1 o’clock and is framed by a rectangular steel case.

It comes in a limited edition of 100, and looks great, as indeed it should for E10,900. But then Chateau Latour’s 2005 vintage – which scored a 96 (out of 100) with Robert Parker and 99 with the Wine Spectator – was itself pretty special.

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