{"id":2114716,"date":"2026-10-16T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2114716"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:39:32","slug":"dior-grand-bal-muguet-muguet-fleuri-2026-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/16\/dior-grand-bal-muguet-muguet-fleuri-2026-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior Grand Bal: lily of the valley puts the oscillating weight on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the Grand Bal line, the mechanism does not hide at the back of the case. Dior places it at the front: the front-mounted oscillating weight, the collection’s signature for fifteen years, becomes a full element of composition. With the new Muguet and Muguet Fleuri variations, this architecture receives a mother-of-pearl and diamond decoration inspired by lily of the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four creations thus extend the collection. The choice is consistent with the language of Grand Bal: approaching watchmaking through a couture eye, where movement is also a matter of drape, volume and appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mechanism that becomes a motif<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The front oscillating weight does not play a merely decorative role here. It is the visual starting point of the watch, around which the mother-of-pearl, the stones and the floral motif unfold. This arrangement reverses the usual relationship between the inside of the mechanism and the visible surface: what animates the object directly participates in its identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muguet and Muguet Fleuri versions follow Dior’s codes without trying to illustrate them literally. The flower serves above all to organise a vocabulary of lightness and preciousness. The result lies on the border between the jewellery watch and the mechanical object, without either dimension erasing the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Couture as a watchmaking angle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since its creation, Grand Bal has asserted a singular idea: a watch can carry a construction inspired by the ball gown while embracing its movement. This continuity explains why the collection favours staging the mechanism rather than the mere accumulation of gem-setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These new pieces do not add an autonomous chapter to Dior watchmaking; they refine a grammar already in place. The Maison Dior<\/a> thus continues, with lily of the valley, a body of work in which mechanical function itself becomes a sign of style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dior enriches its Grand Bal line with four creations in which the front oscillating weight becomes the starting point of a mother-of-pearl and diamond decoration inspired by lily of the valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2110420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30122],"tags":[31020,62258],"class_list":["post-2114716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches-and-jewelry","tag-dior-en","tag-dior-horlogerie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}