Laphont Bloc Bouquella

Flowers are meant to be given, admired for a week and let go. On Bouquella they have other plans. A girl painted in white drifts up from the lower corner of a glossy black dial, borne aloft by a bunch of bouquets in red, violet, orange and gold, the only colour on a dark ground. Their strings cut across the dial on a diagonal and pass straight through its centre, so the hands turn on the very line that keeps her flying. With no numerals or markers, the custom dial leaves the black as open air around a small, hand-painted escape. Created with Laphont, the piece is set in the Bloc, a Brutalist-inspired stainless steel tank 35mm tall and 27.5mm across, a slim 7.6mm thick, with stepped, polished sides. A Japanese Miyota quartz movement runs beneath sapphire crystal, on a black croc-embossed leather strap that lets the dial do all the talking. Dramatic on the wrist, easy to wear daily.