RED IS THE COLOUR, EIGHT IS THE NUMBER
As red outfits are all the rage during the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, matching timepieces in the lucky colour have been rolled out by French fashion house Dior.
The Swiss-made watches include the automatic Dior Grand Bal Spring Festival with delicate flowers blooming on yellow gold stems, on the functional oscillating weight revealed on the face rather than on the back of the new model.
The Dior Inversé calibre allows the appealing display of the whirling yellow gold rotor that follows the movements of the wearer’s arm, while evoking the swirl of a ball gown whose fine fabric follows each move of the body.
With gold, diamond and ruby petals, the flowers seem to float on the mother-of-pearl dial of the steel watch with a diamond-set bezel. The 36mm limited edition, available in 88 pieces, further has a shiny alligator strap in an auspicious red.
Eight is a lucky number in China as well as for the superstitious Christian Dior, whose couture house was founded on Oct 8, 1946. This is reflected in the dainty quartz La Mini D de Dior Rose des Vents housed in a 19mm steel case with a grain-of-riceshaped bezel. Lucky elements include the red lacquered dial and mobile eight-pointed star or a wind rose that serves as a compass to guide and protect the wearer.
Another quartz watch redesigned to call in the lunar new year, the steel La D de Dior Satine now comes with a flamboyant red-lacquered face framed by a diamond-set pink gold bezel. Designed like a satin ribbon, the 25mm model is fitted with a steel bracelet in flexible Milanese mesh that looks like couture metal fabric.