Christophe Claret

HE LOVES ME… HE LOVES ME NOT

Innovative mechanics are behind this game that seeks the answer to one of nature’s paramount questions: He loves me? He loves me not? Margot lets feelings flower while her petals are picked off; time lets passion consume itself, giving no hint of the revelation to come.

ROMANCE

In a luxuriant meadow, where daydreams and daisies flourish side by side, the watch Margot takes a moment of passion and freezes it in time: A budding romance is in the air, but what will it blossom into? Margot whispers us the answer…

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Margot

Margot is Christophe Claret’s first ladies’ watch complication. It features an ingenious mechanism that helps to ‘predict’ – or at least tries to – one of nature’s paramount questions: “Does he love me?” A simple press of the pusher at 2 o’clock brings the watch to life. With each press, a petal – sometimes a pair of petals, it is impossible to foresee – subtly disappears under the dial in a smooth action, perfectly depicting the delicate undressing of the flower. The eagerly-awaited answer appears at random in calligraphic letters (in French) on the dial at 4 o’clock: Un peu (a little) – beaucoup (a lot) – passionnément (passionately) – à la folie (madly) – pas du tout (not at all)?

At each press of the pusher, a distinct, crystalline chime resonates, aurally signaling the pace of the game.

The display back reveals the automatic winding rotor, a delicately carved, flower-shaped carrousel of colors symbolizing sentiments of love, with a central cabochon concealing the rotor’s ball bearings. Each one of the eight resplendent triangular precious stones denote a feeling – hope, passion, tenderness… Which one will line up with the red-lacquered heart when the flower halts its waltz?

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Reference : MTR.EMT17.090-110

  • Movement

    Caliber: EMT17, automatic-winding

    Dimensions:
    Diameter: 38.4 mm
    Height: 9.76 mm

    Number of components: 731
    Number of jewels: 95

    Power reserve:
    - 72 hours
    - Two barrels

    Escapement:
    - Frequency: 4 Hz (28,800 vph)
    - Swiss lever

    Features:
    - 12 "He loves me…he loves me not” petals to ‘pick off’
    - ‘Sentiment’ displayed in window at 4 o’clock: un peu (a little), beaucoup (a lot), passionnément (passionately), à la folie (madly) and pas du tout (not at all)
    - Pusher at 2 o’clock ’picks off’ one or two petals while advancing the ‘Sentiment’ indicator by one sentiment
    - Striking chime at each action of the 2 o’clock pusher with a visible hammer at 8 o’clock
    - "He loves me… loves me not” reset pusher at 4 o’clock: all the petals instantly reappear around a pistil, while the ‘Sentiment’ displayed in the window at 4 o’clock turns to an ellipsis (…)

  • Functions

    - Hours and minutes
    - “He loves me... he loves me not” (“Effeuiller la marguerite” in French)
    - Symbolic ‘colour-feeling’ on the winding rotor

  • Case

    Dimensions: Ø42.50 x 14.52 mm
    Water resistance: 3 ATM / 30 m / 100 ft

  • Material

    Case:
    5N red gold, baguette-set
    69 diamonds (4.80 carats)

    Top lugs:
    Framing an octagonal diamond

    Hands:
    Steel with 4N pink gold tips

    Dial:
    Pink mother-of-pearl
    White gold prong-set with pear-shaped diamonds

    Pushers:
    5N red gold

    Strap:
    White alligator
    5N red gold prong-set with pear-shaped diamonds

20-piece limited series

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