BIVER presents unique Dance of Time

As a tribute to tradition, culture and the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, Pierre and Jean-Claude Biver have created, in collaboration with Joel Niño – a Mexican artist – a unique timepiece for SIAR

The Salon Internacional de Alta Relojería (SIAR) was held in Mexico City from October 17 to 19, 2023. Father and son duo Jean-Claude and Pierre Biver launched their first watch last March: a minute repeater, carillon, tourbillon, with stone dials.

For SIAR, the unique piece is the same Carillon Tourbillon – the first to be released in rose gold – but with an onyx dial, featuring sandblasted motifs representing the traditional Mexican “papel picado” and hand-engraved rose gold appliques representing one of Mexico’s most famous symbols: calaveras – inspired by those of Diego Rivera – in particular his emblematic catrina.

The Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead is an irreplaceable tradition and has the particularity of giving a positive approach to death and the afterlife. Similarly, as Jean-Claude Biver explains, the complication, through its vibration by means of the carillon, the beauty of mastering the invisible and fidelity to the mechanical watchmaking tradition, allows the soul of the piece to be born, to reach eternity, just as the Mexicans keep their ancestors and traditions alive through the Day of the Dead.