Animal World Peacock Watch

Description

The Maison continues its extraordinary journey through the animal kingdom, inviting this peacock to join the party and continuing to explore this world of mystery, playfulness and infinite beauty that has earned it such universal acclaim.

The Animal World Collection pieces are miniature paintings telling extraordinary tales. Each Totem animal to be created represents a new challenge for the goldsmiths, rhodium specialists, chainmakers and gem setters.

Thanks to their exceptional jewellery-making mastery based upon deriving the best possible advantage from shapes, colours and materials, the artisans labouring in the Chopard workshops manage to give life to the animals they shape by endowing them with distinctive gestures, expressions and emotions.

The peacock is a fascinating animal with its tail spread out in a fan shape. The blue pupils bordered by intense green lashes of its multiple shaded velvet eyes, captivates. This solar wheel, a score from Indian mythology, opens the mind to serene contemplation, to the fertility of ideas, to the regeneration of the Soul. The peacock feather is also a symbol of justice, as the balance of the feathers is held by a thread and the weight can break it at the slightest breath.

The motif of the peacock wraps its tail in a lacy plume around the bezel. This jewel watch embodies a majestic protector with a thousand eyes that knows all, sees all.

This animal fascination, animated by an automatic movement, required 340 hours of study and handwork. Covered with some thirty small, tapered feathers, the watch is adorned with 2230 precious and semi-precious stones: Paraíba tourmalines, sapphires, tsavorites, blue lazulites studded with white, cognac, black and brown diamonds. These stones are set on anodised titanium.

Supplied by the brand to the GPHG for its entry.