Signal Your National Pride With These Red Watches and Jewellery

Van Cleef & Arpels’ Leonis long necklace in rose gold and red jasper is perfect for when National Day meets Leo season. Hailing from the Maison’s Zodiaque Collections, it bears rose gold motifs on both sides of the pendant — a lion against a flaming sky on one, and the Leo symbol and calendar dates on the other. Ornamental stones that feature in the other pendants representing fire signs — iron eye for Aries and red pietersite for Sagittarius — evoke flames and magma.

Red has popped up on TAG Heuer’s timepieces through the decades — the dial of the Heuer Silverstone from 1974, the tachymeter scale on the 1960s Heuer Carreras, the hands on the Heuer Monaco, and more — so this striking new iteration of the Heuer Carrera first designed in 1963 is in good company, with its red sunray brushed dial, column wheel and oscillating mass engravings (the latter two seen through the sapphire crystal caseback). Limited to just 600 pieces, this watch bears the same elegant silhouette as the reference 2447 but at a slightly larger 39mm, and it is powered by the Calibre Heuer 02 with a power reserve of 80 hours.

New to Piaget’s Possession collection is this rose gold watch in ruby and diamond, with its freely turning bezel set with a circle of diamonds and a single ruby, while the mother-of-pearl dial is set with rubies, one at each of the hour markers. And why not pair this spectacular timepiece with the Possession single earring? Bearing a single diamond set among three rows of rubies, the delicate piece can be styled as a pair or worn as a single earring.