Hands-on with the Dior Chiffre Rouge T01

Many of the well-known fashion houses have been producing watches for years, most of them without horological distinction, their productions being regarded as just 'fashion' pieces.

This seems to be changing of late with some interesting, not to say innovative, pieces being produced.

One watch with an unusual complication recently released by the French fashion house Dior is a fine example of this new approach.

The Dior Chiffre Rouge T01 was designed for Dior by young movement engineers Franck Orny and Johnny Girardin. Orny is a construction-engineer specialising in horological fabrication who served as chief of production at a manufactory which has attracted attention in recent years for its unusual and elegant horological complications. Girardin is a movement constructor and engineer who specialises in watches and has worked for various renowned manufactories including Greubel Forsey.

The Chiffre Rouge T01, with a self-winding 'Dior 8 Fuseaux Horaires' calibre movement, has a regular minute hand rotating around the wonderfully sparse dial decorated with a 'pique de coton' motif dear to the brand and characteristic of their tuxedo shirts. There is a sweep second hand tipped with red. Nowhere does the name 'Dior' appear on the dial. There is a smaller 'satellite' disc which orbits around the face once every 24 hours and which acts as an hour indicator.

This satellite, within a red border, orbits within itself, rotating once every 24 hours to act as a multiple time-zone indicator, with the time at eight cities from different parts of the globe shown on its dial. It is of course no problem to extrapolate the time for cities not listed. The satellite dial is one half white and the other black to indicate day and night

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