Style Edit: Hong Kong actress Louise Wong shines with her Omega Constellation in Canopus Gold – the A Guilty Conscience star’s journey from model to screen icon is a triumph of talent and style
Sometimes a watch just finds the perfect wrist. And there’s no one who wears the Omega 29mm Constellation in Canopus Gold with more style and panache than celebrated actress Louise Wong.
The star has been a friend of Omega since early 2023, and perfectly embodies its spirit of confidence, sophistication and elegance. She also represents a triumph of talent over the odds. Coming from a humble background, she and her family moved from mainland China to Hong Kong when she was very young, before she started her career as a model. She won the Asia-Pacific Elite Model Look competition aged just 16, and went on to become an in-demand face, working with a who’s who of leading luxury brands.
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Making the transition from model to award winning actress would have been hard enough to do on its own – but Wong chose to do it in just about the most demanding way imaginable by taking on, in her first ever professional acting role, the challenge of playing one of the best loved performers in the history of Hong Kong, Anita Mui. She fought off a field of 3,000 other actors who auditioned for the role in the 2022 biopic Anita, and went on to so finely inhabit the role of legendary singer that she was named best new performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Wong went from strength to strength with her second film, A Guilty Conscience (2023), in which she plays a woman wrongfully convicted of murdering her daughter, earning her a best actress nomination at the awards. It became the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in Hong Kong history, and topped box office charts in mainland China. Her next role sees her play an enslaved woman working on a sugar cane farm in Cuba in the TV series Coolie, her first performance entirely in English.
The watch she wears, the Omega Constellation in Canopus Gold, is the ideal companion for such a luminous star. It is bedecked with a startlingly generous frosting of precious stones: 634 of them in total. The 18k white gold dial alone is paved with 354 single cut diamonds in a snow setting, which act as the backdrop to the 12 baguette cut blue sapphire hour markers, in 18k white gold holders, offset by an 18k white gold Constellation star at 6 o’clock.
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The timepiece is made from the brand’s trademarked Canopus Gold, a unique white gold alloy developed by Omega that features a mixture of platinum, rhodium and palladium. Distinguished by its outstanding brilliance, whiteness and longevity, it is named after Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky with 10,000 times the luminosity of the sun.
All these precious materials perfectly complement the piece’s classic Constellation design, first introduced in 1952 and gradually refined over the years for a sportier look. The collection is instantly recognisable by its trademark features including its quartet of claws, two each at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, and integrated caseband. Powering the watch is the Omega Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 8703, while Canopus Gold appears again on the buckle that sits at the heart of the blue leather strap.
- From humble beginnings to award-winning performances, Louise Wong’s journey is a testament to talent and perseverance – epitomised by Omega’s mission of confidence and elegance
- Here the brand ambassador models the Omega Constellation in Canopus Gold, a timepiece adorned with 634 precious stones and featuring the brand’s white gold alloy