"White Owl" Rare Handcrafts Golden Ellipse White Gold Alligator Leather 34.5 x 39.5mm

This limited edition of ten watches in Grand Feu cloisonné enamel presents an owl, symbol of wisdom and clairvoyance for the ancient Greeks, depicted here after a work by a famous French painter of animals. To reproduce the contours of this nocturnal raptor, the enameller worked with about 40 cm of gold wire (~0.17 g). He then called on his great mastery of contrasts to make this white bird stand out on a white ground, using a palette of 17 enamel colors, mainly transparent, but with some opaque or opalescent.