Only Watch 2015: Mademoiselle Privée

Only Watch 2015: Mademoiselle Privée

H4407 CLOSE UP RVB

Since the birth of the House, exceptional savoir-faire has always been at the heart of CHANEL creations. MADEMOISELLE PRIVE collection pays tribute to watchmaking arts and skills such as enamelling, engraving, setting and marquetry, but also to the artistic crafts of Couture.

To enhance these exceptional timepieces, CHANEL has called on the services of Maison Lesage, the guardians of a rare and precious expertise of embroideries.

Mademoiselle Chanel loved the delicate elegance and subtle milky colour of the camellia, making it her favourite flower. This symbolic flower is gracefully reinterpreted in this unique model. 

Fruit of an exquisite collaboration with Maison Lesage, the camellias are embroidered here with silk and metallic threads and natural pearls. This exceptional piece is hand-stitched in a highly delicate display of precision and refinement. 

  • Technical description:

CHANEL, Mademoiselle Privé for Only Watch
Unique piece manufactured in Switzerland.
« Mademoiselle Privé » watch in 18-carat white gold set with 140 brilliant-cut diamonds ( ~ 1.49 carat).
18-carat white gold case (37.5 mm) set with 60 brilliant-cut diamonds (~ 1 carat).
Beige silk dial hand-embroidered with camellias made with 3 natural pearls, silk and metallic threads.
18-carat white gold hands.
18-carat white gold case-back.
White satin strap.
18-carat white gold ardillon buckle set with 80 brilliant-cut diamonds (~ 0.49 carat).
High precision quartz movement off centered at 5 o'clock.
Water resistance: 30 meters.

  • Why is this watch unique ? 

For nearly a century, for all the major names in Haute Couture, Lesage has embroidered highly elaborate motifs requiring many hours of work and great virtuosity. The exquisite motif on this highly poetic dial is the fruit of a long tradition. 

Against a striking backdrop of fabric dial, natural pearls, knotted and chain stitching come together to form a motif of a rare poetry. 

Numerous technics of embroideries are needed to create this sumptuous dial :

The petals' outline of the camellias gives the illusion that a chain frames the flowers : they are made with metallic threads embroidered with a Luneville hook. 

Straight points are embroidered with bright white silk threads to form the inner petals of this poetic model, giving depth to the dial.

The dial is unique, revealing the embroiderer’s freedom of movement throughout her patient creative work.