Frédérique Constant Brand
Frederique Constant Presents Its New Highlife Ladies Automatic Watch - A Touch Of Pop
Luxferity, 03.10.2022
The Highlife collection of Frederique Constant is resolutely focused on the present moment. It embraces the contours of its time, appropriating current trends, remaining chic and impertinent at the same time. In this vein, the Swiss watch manufacturer is now introducing 3 new models with coloured dials. Adorned with a turquoise, pink or gold background, these watches are now available in Switzerland.
The Highlife collection, launched in 1999, has been a landmark in the history of Frederique Constant. Having made its comeback in 2020, it is more modern than ever. Having presented several urban, sporty, jewelled and adventurous variations, Frederique Constant opened the ball in March 2022 with two new proposals both playing chic and glamourous and has now added 3 new pop variations to the collection.
Pop goes the world
With a steel case measuring 34mm in diameter, graceful yet assertive, the Highlife Ladies Automatic combines the subtlety of a 100% feminine piece with an automatic timepiece that asserts its own identity. The dial, engraved with a representation of the globe - the aesthetic signature of the Highlife collection - plays with reflections. The result: a superb alternation of tones, metal, finishes and reflections. The piece does not play the card of soft harmony but dares to create strong contrasts and complementarity. A subtle, playful and poetic game of contrast for those whose character refuses to choose between tradition and modernity.
Similarly to its original counterpart - The Highlife Ladies Automatic, this new model harbor an automatic calibre with a 38-hour power reserve, richly decorated in a spiral pattern and visible through the open case-back.
An integrated and interchangeable bracelet
True to the spirit of the collection, each of these watches comes with an integrated and interchangeable bracelet. A distinctive feature of Highlife timepieces, it alternates two satin-finished links with a polished central link, testifying to the affection of the Frederique Constant Manufacture for the Genevan craftsmanship of which it is a worthy representative. This very chic watch will have its shocking counterpart, with a second rubber strap (supplied) finished with a pin buckle, making it possible to change, in the blink of an eye and without the use of tools, as many times as the moment calls for.
- Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303LB2NH6B)
Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303LB2NH6B)
- Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303LP2NH6B)
Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303LP2NH6B)
- Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303WG2NH6B)
Highlife Ladies Automatic (FC-303WG2NH6B)
About Frederique Constant
Frederique Constant is a Swiss watchmaking manufacture located in Geneva, Switzerland. The Maison was founded in 1988 by a couple of independent entrepreneurs, Aletta and Peter Stas, to offer quality Swiss watches at an affordable price, with the aim of democratising luxury Swiss Made watches.
Frederique Constant creates, develops, assembles and controls a wide variety of mechanical, quartz and connected timepieces at the same time within its 6,200 m2 Manufacture in Plan-les-Ouates (GE). To this day, Frederique Constant has designed 30 Manufacture calibres, including high complications, such as the Tourbillon, the Perpetual Calendar, the Flyback Chronograph, as well as a new and unprecedented type of escapement in watchmaking – the Monolithic. Made from a single piece of silicone, replacing the 26 components of a standard assortment, it oscillates at a frequency of 40 Hz, which is 10 times that of most mechanical movements.
In 2015, Frederique Constant launched the Horological Smartwatch, the first Swiss Made connected timepiece featuring a traditional appearance. In 2018, the Classic Hybrid Manufacture succeeded it, combining a mechanical Manufacture movement with connected features. It was followed by the Smartwatch Vitality line in 2020, equipped with a new generation built-in heart rate sensor. The same year, Frederique Constant reinvigorated the Highlife collection (1999) with a redesigned case and an interchangeable integrated strap. This was followed in 2021 by the Slimline Monolithic Manufacture with its very high-frequency one-piece escapement, then by the Highlife collection for women.
Frederique Constant is currently present in nearly 3,000 points of sale in 120 countries across the world. In 2016, the Frederique Constant group (Frederique Constant, Alpina Watches, Ateliers deMonaco) joined the Japanese group Citizen, so as to pursue its international development and nurture new synergies.
