New floral jewels and watches bloom in Dior

Season after season, Victoire de Castellane – Artistic Director of Dior Joaillerie – cultivates a precious garden of new collections that compose a pluralistic story reflecting a multifaceted femininity. The rose, Monsieur Dior’s favourite bloom, flourishes there in majesty. This jewellery garden is now home to a fourth flower with all the freshness of a burgeoning bud, Rose Dior Couture. Meanwhile, Dior has added three new timepieces to its Grand Bal collection as well as one edition to its Dior Grand Soir Papillon line

La Rose jewellery collection
Victoire de Castellane shares a love of nature with the House’s founder, Monsieur Dior. From its stem to its lush efflorescence, the Dior flower par excellence unfurls in the Bois de Rose, Rose Dior Bagatelle, and Rose Dior Pré Catelan lines.

Victoire de Castellane describes the Bois de Rose as a stem that coils around the finger, like a poetic jewel, a romantic declaration, or a symbol of eternal love. Chiselled in white, pink, or yellow gold, with or without a frosting of diamonds, they delicately enlace the wrists of women and men alike.

The Bois de Rose models reveal organic, pure forms of stems and thorns, embellished with gold – yellow, pink, or white – and most often set with diamonds, while the lacquer-finished Diorette creations reveal a profusion of luminous shades, punctuated by entrancing stones, to compose an extraordinary herbarium.

Rose Dior Couture, the latest rose dreamed up by Victoire de Castellane, combines the promise of a bud ready to blossom with the silkiness of a fabric flower. Printed, embroidered, and brocaded on dresses or evening coats, the rose appears on a belt, is suggested in the fullness of a skirt, or is painted on a chiffon dress. In its honour, the nine pieces in this new collection, designed with a lively line evoking that of a child, bring together rose gold and diamonds on delicate necklaces, stud earrings and rings with forms inspired by the aesthetics of Bois de Rose, for freestyle combinations that capture the spirit of the times.

Like the dresses Monsieur Dior named after the most emblematic sites in Paris, Rose Dior Pré Catelan beckons a promenade through Victoire de Castellane’s creations. The collection is joyful and colourful, with its rose-covered flowerbeds and arches. With extravagant, generous volumes, the line embraces the gentle hues of rose quartz, complemented by a more assertive palette with amethyst and onyx.

Just as the “Rhumbs” villa in Granville embodies Monsieur Dior’s childhood, Bagatelle for Victoire de Castellane represents the quintessential garden. A place of tranquillity recalling her own childhood strolls, its rose garden embodies for the Artistic Director an “idea of what is charming”. Named in its honour, the Rose Dior Bagatelle collection commingles white gold and diamonds.

The line’s eleven newest creations invite new styles of wearing jewellery. The mono-earring appears as a stud or in a motif that stretches from the earlobe to the helix. With a band borrowed from the Bois de Rose collection, the ring gamely lends itself to plays of mix and match. Alternatives include a resolutely feminine two-finger version, an open bangle and its companion, and a finely worked necklace with an interlaced clasp.

Dior Grand Bal Watches
Dior has debuted three new watches to its Grand Bal collection: Dior Grand Bal Milly La Nuit, Dior Grand Bal Tie & Dye, and the Dior Grand Bal Toile De Jouy Or. All three watches are 36 mm in diameter, house the Automatic Dior Inversé 11 ½ calibre with a 42-hour power reserve, and are water-resistant to 30 metres.

The Dior Grand Bal Milly La Nuit is presented in a polished stainless steel case with a pink gold bezel – snow-set with 292 round-cut diamonds of 1.95 cts, featuring a crown in polished stainless steel engraved with “CD” and a milky sapphire crystal case back with pink gold metallised inscription. The colourful dial is of malachite with leaf patterns and pink gold-coloured hour and minute hands. The watch is offered on a black satin strap with a steel ardillon buckle set with 18 diamonds of 0.18 cts. The timepiece is set with a total of 356 diamonds of 2.27 cts, certified as FG, IF, and VVS.

The Dior Grand Bal Tie & Dye is encased in white gold set with 890 brilliant-cut diamonds of 5.13 cts, with the bezel set with 30 trapeze-cut diamonds of 1.47 cts, 30 trapeze-cut sapphires of 1.68 cts, and a white gold crown set with diamonds. The dial is set with 371 brilliant-cut sapphires (1.13 cts) and 277 brilliant-cut diamonds (0.84 cts). Its white gold oscillating weight is set with 12 brilliant-cut sapphires (0.06 cts), 23 navette-cut sapphires (0.36 cts), 4 ovale-cut sapphires (0.14 cts), 7 baguette-cut sapphires (0.05 cts), 11 baguette-cut diamonds (0.06 cts), 9 brilliant-cut diamonds (0.04 cts), 28 navette-cut diamonds (0.43 cts), and 3 ovale-cut diamonds (0.11 cts). The watch features white gold polished dauphine hands and is presented on a bracelet of white gold set with 1,034 brilliant-cut diamonds (10.34 cts) with an additional strap in blue satin. The timepiece houses a total of 11.35 cts of gemstones of which 152 are tsavorites of approximately 2.14 cts, while 1,619 diamonds of (approx.) 9.21 cts are graded IF, VVS, and of FG colour.

The Dior Grand Bal Toile De Jouy Or is housed in a 36mm, stainless steel case with a yellow gold bezel set with 292 round-cut diamonds (1.95 cts), and a polished engraved stainless steel crown, with a milky sapphire crystal case back with yellow gold metallised inscription. The white mother-of-pearl dial is studded with the Toile de Jouy leaf pattern and features yellow gold-coloured hour and minute hands. The timepiece is presented on a white leather strap with yellow gold-coloured Toile de Jouy pattern and steel ardillon buckle, set with 18 diamonds (0.18 cts). The automatic movement, calibre Dior Inversé 11 ½, features a yellow gold branch-shaped oscillating weight on the dial, adorned with 103 brilliant-cut diamonds (0.37 cts). The watch is decorated with a total of 413 diamonds of 2.5 cts, graded FG, IF, and VVS.

Dior Grand Soir Papillon limited edition watch
Dior has also unveiled the Dior Grand Soir Papillon, again in 36 mm, in a limited edition of 8 pieces. The timepiece is offered in 18K white gold with diamond set lugs (0.48 cts) and a bezel in white gold set with 156 diamonds (1.82 cts). The white gold caseback is decorated with an engraved butterfly, while the dial is snow-set with 844 brilliant-cut diamonds (3.84 cts) atop which sits a yellow gold butterfly set with 3 brilliant-cut diamonds (0.06 cts), 2 sapphires (0.12 cts), 6 spinels (0.10 cts) and a Mexican opal, with wings of tinted mother-of-pearl and painted gallus gallus feathers. Occupying the upper dial space is a pair of faceted yellow gold hands. The black leather strap with white gold ardillon buckle set with brilliant cut diamonds (0.18 cts) offers a pleasing aesthetic, with an additional strap offered in night blue matt calfskin. The watch houses a quartz movement and is water-resistant to 30 m. The timepiece is set with a 1,166 diamonds of (approx.) 6.38 cts, graded IF, VVS, FG; 2 sapphires of (approx.): 0.12 cts; 6 spinels of (approx.) 0.10 cts; and 1 Mexican opal – all totalling 6.62 cts.