Mademoiselle Privé Coromandel Sculpted Gold - Flying Birds - 5

The jewelry watch collection, entitled “Mademoiselle Privé”, opens the door to the intimate world of Gabrielle Chanel, and showcases her most cherished symbols and objects she loved to have around her.

In the hands of the finest master artisans - enamellers, engravers, carvers and stone-setters - this collection adds yet another chapter to CHANEL’s creative saga, and uncovers new grounds for expressing unsurpassed skill and know-how of the Métiers d’Art craftsmanship used in Fine Watchmaking and High Jewelry.

MADEMOISELLE PRIVÉ COROMANDEL SCULPTED GOLD - FLYING BIRDS
Sculpted gold is a technique used to sublimate the scenes on onyx dials. Gold is shaped, engraved and oxidized to provide a real and natural appearance to the motifs.

With its infinite lightness, birds, flowers and branches, inspired by the famous Coromandel lacquer panels, appear in relief composing the scene of the dial.

For its 2016 edition, a new complexity has been introduced: with the trembling effect, birds seem to fly with each movement of the wrist.

It takes 3 weeks to engrave the elements, fix the bird and test the bird trembler spring, for each dial.