15.5cts of Lab Grown Diamond with $575,000 TAG Heuer
TAG Heuer has unveiled a new version of its most expensive watch, the Carrera Plasma, to mark its diamond anniversary, incorporating 15.5 carats of lab grown diamond. The gems are step-cut into “imaginative shapes” and set into both the black aluminum case and into the strap. The watch’s dial is a polycrystalline diamond plate – a sum of crystals grown as one, and the crown is a single, custom-cut diamond of 2.5 carats.
The new Carrera Plasma Diamant D’Avant-Garde Chronograph Tourbillon 44mm is not the first TAG Heuer timepiece to feature lab grown diamonds. But it has more carats than any previous watch, and with a $575,000 price tag, it is the most expensive. In April the company launched a version of the same watch with a distinctive 1.3-ct CVD lab grown pink diamond as the winding crown, engraved with its logo, for $376,000.
IDEX John Jeffay
Posted by: SGDX Singapore Diamond Exchange
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