"Blue Butterfly" Rare Handcrafts White Gold Alligator Leather 38mm

This limited edition of ten watches in white gold expresses the chromatic beauty of an encounter between the blooms of the Himalayan blue poppy and the airy lightness and grace of a monarch butterfly. Tracing the contours of the petals and butterfly in Grand Feu cloisonné enamel called for about 47 cm of gold wire (~0.22 g). The enameller then displayed his outstanding mastery of the art of gradations and shading by working with a palette of transparent, opalescent, opaque and semi-opaque enamels in 32 colors, and integrating tiny beads of orange and white enamel on the butterfly’s wings, to create depth effects in the scene and an impression of volume in the poppy flowers.