Dial - a distinctive face

 

BOVET is one of the few producers of watches with dials in real fired enamel, and covers all the techniques of this rare art.The rarest of them all is the miniature painting in enamels where pictures of astonishing detail are created colour by colour, each made everlasting by firing in a kiln.The cloisonné enamelling technique separates forms and colours of enamel between hair-thin gold partitions to create stylised pictures and designs. China was the source of some of the finest cloisonné enamels. BOVET also uses the champlevé technique to add an enamel decoration to some of its movements. In this, enamel is laid in cavities engraved into the gold, and then fired. Characteristic of BOVET Fleurier watches are the dials in flinqué enamels. These are made by firing and polishing layers of translucent coloured enamels on an engraved metal surface. Precise grinding and polishing creates an iridescent effect where the engraved pattern shimmers through the coloured enamel. BOVET's flinqué dials are coloured ivory, scarlet, carmine, turquoise, dark blue, green, brown, grey or yellow. All the enamel dials are finished off in layers of clear enamel called fondant, which is polished to give the work its exceptional brilliance.BOVET also offers enamel and mother-of-pearl dials with special settings of gemstones as well as dials that are entirely paved in diamonds.Today, BOVET's dials maintain the artistic traditions that made its watches so precious in the 19th century.