El carmesí se oscurece hacia los bordes como un vino que respira en la copa. Lo pedí con la correa de alligator y la hebilla en plata remata el conjunto con una sobriedad preciosa. Es mi primer reloj mecánico y me ha malacostumbrado.

The gown
that gave the watch
its name
Around 1907, at the Palazzo Orfei in Venice, Mariano Fortuny and Henriette Negrin created the Delphos gown: a hand-pleated silk tunic, inspired by the chiton of the Charioteer of Delphi, that fell freely over the body and freed women from the corset. Fortuny understood before anyone that light is matter. The Delphos Series 193 takes up that mantle: the dials shift in tone with every turn of the wrist, like the pleating of the tunic, and the sharp geometry of indices and hands recalls the tailor’s needle












