VC&A (you know them well) have another in their line of jeweled, lightly complicated, ladies watches, the Poetic Complications; from the Fairy in 1997 to the Lovers' Bridge in 2010. Starting with the Retrograde mechanism from their Fairy watch, the Enchanted Ballerina adds to it a mechanism classically known as "le Bras en l'Air"(see previous) and was just announced this January. In the Fairy, the two hands rose, hours on one side, minutes on the other, and then dropped back after each "revolution", always indicating the time. In the Enchanted Ballerina, the two hands, the sides of her tutu, stay down until the button on the left is pressed, whereupon they jump up to indicate the time and transform her into a "butterfly". Or at least that's the theory, so they can use a quote from Anna Pavlova, pre-dessert, in the PR materials "J'ai rêvé que j'étais une ballerine, et que je passais toute ma vie à danser avec la légèreté d'un papillon..." (I've been dreaming that I was a ballerina, and that I was spending my whole life dancing as lightly as a butterfly...)
As usual, the movement is a Agenhor module on a JLC base, with some fantascially shaped bridges and wheels, the Agenhor signature. The case is 40.5mm in white gold the hands are champleve enamel and the dial is transluscent enamel over guilloche.
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| Hands at Rest | Hands Telling Time (11:05) |
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