Christian Dior Chiffre Rouge T01 and Christal 8 Mother-of-Pearl Timepieces
When a way brand produces a watch, the first question is: How much money, time and creativity is it at the end of the day committing? It’s easy enough to tick the brand extension box by outsourcing quartz watches to exchange for under $500—the brief is usually “Make it look valuable and have it done by Christmas.” Others take a more thoughtful approach, working with vital watch brands on productions that can take five years and result in elegant mechanical timepieces. The Gratis of Dior went so far as to acquire its own atelier in Switzerland in 2001, where it assembles and finishes watches, but Mauro Egermini, the atelier’s head general, says, “Dior prefers to keep creativity in-undertaking—the watches are designed at company headquarters in Paris—and connoisseur movement producers create the components.”
According to Egermini, the aesthetics for the Chiffre Rouge T01 for men are based around plan “codes” that date back to Hedi Slimane’s years as original director of Dior Homme (he left in 2007): asymmetry, candid shapes and a limited palette of gray, white, red and Stygian. Its dial is engraved with a piqué pattern that echoes the create of the line’s cotton shirts. The Christal 8 for women is inspired more by 18th-century ornamentalism, with its double rows of diamonds, white sapphire bracelet and gold-leaf accents.
What makes them a mate is that they deliver the world via an unusual device: a satellite dial so called because it orbits around the mug. Fabricated by renowned movement specialists Franck Orny and Johnny Girardin, it performs two functions: It acts as an hour effortlessly for local time and on a nest of interlocking circles it displays the span in locations around the world. Why eight time zones? Eight happened to be Christian Dior’s auspicious number and is the traditional lucky number in China, an increasingly critical market for French brands.
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