Dior exercises its expertise in Métiers d'Art to create spectacular one-of-a-kind Grand Bal timepieces
The ballgown makes you dream, and must make you a dream woman,” Christian Dior, founder of his famous namesake couture house, once remarked. And just as the petites mains of Dior’s couture ateliers weave silk, tulle and taffeta into the stuff of dreams, so do the Dior watchmakers—albeit with slightly different materials. Every year, they work their magic on the house’s iconic Grand Bal watch, whose freely-rotating oscillating weight, visible on the dial side, evokes the image of the swishing skirts on Dior’s splendid ballgowns.