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When this was presented at Baselworld this year it certainly raised eyebrows.   The previous inin one carnation of this line was the kind of fussy, overly feminine style youd find in a provincial gift shop, nestled in ampngst the sented candles, and monogrammed hankies.  This new Clair de Rose is none of those things, it is elegant, and the combination of steel and diamonds makes it the ideal day / night crossover warch.  Part of that is thanks to the woven-effect steel braclet, which is created by using small "rice grain" links for added supplesness.  Altiugh it dosen't get as uo close and personal with the edges of the bezel as some other integrated designs, it still allows for a lovely synergy between watch and case.   And, as an added bonus, even though , in one version, its case diameter drops to just 26mm, every version has an automatic movement. You wouldn't get that in a gift shop.

If we have learnt anything about Chanel in the past year, since it launched its first in-house movement encased in the gorgeous form of the Monsieur de Chanel, it is to expect the nexpected it went from the Monsieur to the fashion-fabulousness of the j12x5 which followed up with its second in-house calibre designed exclusively for women in the Premiere. When that watch was launched, CEO Nicolas Beau said that he had something else up his sleeve, something that he hoped would be to Chanel for the next 30 years wha the Premiere had been for the previous three  decades.   That watch is the Code Coco - a watch that is part braclet, part timepiece and not fully either, it is inspired by the clasp of the iconic 2.55 handbag and features a tiny bar set in between two black lacquer squares, which, when twisted from vertical to horizontal reveals the watch in the lower one.  The upper square simply contains a diamond set against a black lacquer background.  The braclet is a sinuous length