El negro de la esfera no es un color, es un silencio. La laca absorbe la luz y de pronto los índices estilete la devuelven como agujas de plata. Bajo el puño de la camisa ni se nota — qué finura de caja — y al asomar impone. Llegó en hora exacta y ahí sigue.
THE ORIGIN · VENICE 1907The gown
The gown
that gave its name
to the watch
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, which fell freely over the body and freed women from the corset. Fortuny understood, before anyone else, that light is matter. The Delphos Series 193 takes up that baton: the dials shift in tone with every turn of the wrist, like the pleats of the tunic, while the sharp geometry of indices and hands recalls the tailor’s needle
