To honor its second year as a partner with amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, Harry Winston is offering a timepiece that will be sold to raise funds for the charity’s Countdown to the Cure campaign, which is working to cure HIV by 2020.
The limited-edition timepiece will be made in a two sizes, 42mm and 32mm, in a limited edition of twenty pieces each.
Part of Harry Winston’s Midnight Collection, the larger (men’s) version ($21,200) features a 42mm white gold case with a navy blue dial accented with amfAR’s Countdown to a Cure campaign colors that symbolize the fade of the disease from crisis to cure. The 32mm women’s model ($16,200) is set with twelve diamonds and nineteen gemstones, including rubies, sapphires and spessartite garnets.
The Countdown to a Cure Timepiece will be sold exclusively at Harry Winston salons worldwide, with 20% of the retail sales price from each limited-edition timepiece benefitting amfAR.
In January 2015, Harry Winston announced a three-year partnership with amfAR to support of the organization’s mission to end the global AIDS epidemic through research and its Countdown to a Cure initiative. The Countdown is designed to intensify amfAR’s cure-focused HIV research program through strategic investments of $100 million over the next five years. Harry Winston’s support for amfAR marks the Brand’s first collaboration with a global organization.
We are proud to introduce the new Countdown to a Cure Timepiece and further strengthen our commitment to amfAR, said Nayla Hayek, CEO of Harry Winston. Through Harry Winston’s support, amfAR has been able to make significant research investments into cutting-edge research studies that address the remaining roadblocks to a cure. It is our hope that through our continued partnership, amfAR will be able to advance its efforts to end the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, giving millions of individuals around the world a more brilliant and healthy future.