The Limited Edition Freelancer “David Bowie” has been developed in collaboration with the David Bowie Estate and is dedicated to a few of the many personas created by the pop legend.
To celebrate the immortal David Bowie, Raymond Weil has chosen its most free-spirited model – Freelancer. The 42 mm diameter case contains a dial resembling a vinyl record clearly featuring some of the most emblematic design cues of the British artist. The lightning bolt painted across his face that first appeared on the cover of the Aladdin Sane album in 1973 is featured in red at 12 o’clock while the pop art logo, designed by Andy Warhol especially for David Bowie and revealed on the cover of the album Diamond Dogs in 1974, appears at 6 o'clock.
Produced in a 3,000-piece limited, numbered series, the Freelancer “David Bowie” houses a mechanical self-winding movement that appears beneath a portrait of David Bowie, immortalized in 1974 by famous photographer Terry O’Neill - a photograph printed on the sapphire of the watch’s case-back.
"He was an artist in a league of his own, a visionary, multi-faceted icon whose work is testimony to an exceptional career as a musician and a creative", declared Elie Bernheim, CEO of Raymond Weil. "His metamorphoses both in terms of style and music studded his career, catapulting both himself and his characters to legendary status. He embodies the free spirit that has guided Raymond Weil day after day since it was created."
