More than 2000 years old, this art of folding paper has established itself as one of the greatest benchmarks in Japanese creativity and transposed into many domains from design to fashion via contemporary art.
With Dior Grand Soir “Origami”, Dior is interpreting this aesthetic style and know-how on the white dials of a 33mm diameter timekeeper. These dials in mother-of-pearl marquetry have been elaborated in three dimensions, offering an optical effect strengthened by the triangle-cut and baguette-helix-cut of the precious stones decorating the bezels: sapphires, tsavorite garnets, spessartite garnets and diamonds. They are echoed in the triangle-cut or trapezium-cut diamonds, pink sapphires, yellow sapphires, spinels and aquamarines which adorn the mother-ofpearl dials.
The watch is animated by the automatic Elite movement by the Zenith manufacture. The oscillating weight, lacquered in bright or tender colours (lemon yellow, pink fuchsia, purple, peachy pink or sky blue), located on the reverse side of the movement, reveals the mother-of-pearl lace visible through the case-back in transparent sapphire crystal, as it swings.
The Dior Grand Soir “Origami” also evokes the dexterity of the craftsmen’s hands. Experts in the art of folding fabrics and materials, their skills are honoured here by the assembly of patent leather and satin on the straps in the collection.
The Dior Grand Soir “Origami” is proposed in five one-of-a-kind pieces, numbered from 27 to 31.
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