Key takeaways
• Renaud Tixier completes the Monday Organica trilogy with the release of the Black and Bordeaux editions, following last year’s Blue release.
• Both new timepieces are limited to just seven pieces each, powered by the 274-component Calibre RVI2023 with a platinum flywheel micro-rotor.
• The Black edition features a grand feu enamel dial in platinum (representing the root), while the Bordeaux edition features grand feu enamel in 5N rose gold (representing the fruit).
(TOLOCHENAZ, SWITZERLAND) – Today, Renaud Tixier brings to a close a triptych begun last year with the launch of the Blue, entirely spoken for upon its unveiling. The Monday Organica now appears in Black and Bordeaux. These two creations, each limited to seven pieces, are the final lines of the same story: that of a dial conceived as an organic landscape, within which, for those who know how to look, the components of caliber RVI2023 can be discerned.
The Organica trilogy
Monday Organica expresses one and the same gesture in three colors. The dial motif, an intricate organic composition inspired by the forms of the living world, is in fact derived from the curves of three components of the RVI2023 caliber. It is therefore a work with two levels of interpretation: the first artistic, the second mechanical, without either one ever exhausting the other.
Yesterday, Blue; today, Black and Bordeaux: three expressions of the same composition. Each is limited to seven pieces – a number of particular significance to Renaud Tixier and a reference to the six creations still to come, each, too, associated with a day of the week. Monday Organica: three colors, seven pieces each – the arithmetic of a maison devoted to the rarity of exceptional pieces.
The name Organica was chosen for its most obvious association: an organic motif, a botanical form. Yet, traced back to its origins, the word belongs to a vocabulary watchmaking has long used to designate the heart of its own mechanisms. This coincidence, more than the design’s floral resemblance, deserves exploration.
Organica, the fusion of the mechanical and the living
Organica descends from the Greek “organon”, itself derived from “ergon”, meaning work or action. “Organon” gave French the words “organe” and “orgue”: the organ of the body and the musical instrument have shared the same name ever since. This suggests that the Greeks did not separate what lives from what serves.
The Monday Organica embodies this duality between the living world and the exceptional tool. Through its new iterations—Monday Organica Black and Monday Organica Bordeaux—it evokes two powerful symbolic worlds: the root and the fruit.
Monday Organica Black: a root laid bare
In watchmaking, black traditionally appears in stone: a polished onyx plate, chosen because nature has already achieved its purity. For the Monday Organica Black, Ateliers Olivier Vaucher made a bolder choice: to render this black in grand feu enamel, a technique notoriously difficult with this shade. Without the relief of an engraved decoration to distract the eye, the slightest bubble or inclusion would be immediately visible. This black conceals nothing; it stands exposed, with nothing to hide.
The parallel with the Organica design then becomes self-evident. If the Blue revealed a blossoming, the Black invites us to read what, in every plant, remains beneath the earth and out of sight: the root system, the foundation, the invisible part without which nothing above could flower. The cool white platinum case encloses this design within a setting that belongs to no season.
Monday Organica Bordeaux: the color of a fruit that took its time
This second color emerged as a deep and mature Bordeaux. Within the logic of Organica, if Blue evoked the blossom and Black the hidden root, Bordeaux recalls the fruit left to ripen – and the lees settling at the bottom of the cask: the richest part of the wine, the slowest to form, and one that only time can produce. The Monday Organica Bordeaux case’s 5N rose gold warms the hue further still.
A continuing dialogue, rather than an event to celebrate
The Monday Organica remains a creation shaped by four hands. Ateliers Olivier Vaucher, whose expertise in métiers d’art applied to the dial is beyond question, continues a dialogue with Dominique Renaud that began many years ago.
Rarity and availability
Like the Monday Organica Blue before them, the Monday Organica Black and Monday Organica Bordeaux are each limited to seven pieces, reserved for a select circle of discerning collectors.
About Renaud Tixier
Renaud Tixier was born from the vision of Dominique Renaud, one of watchmaking’s leading creative figures for more than 40 years, and his partnership with Julien Tixier, a young artisan and guardian of traditional savoir-faire. The maison was conceived around a collection of seven limited-edition creations, each incorporating a patented innovation and associated with a day of the week. The first model, Monday, introduces a world first: a micro-rotor fitted with a flywheel to optimize automatic-winding efficiency, an unprecedented innovation in the industry.
Press Contacts
Hugues de Vanssay, Sales & Marketing Coordinator (Renaud Tixier)
press@dominiquerenaud.ch
Ines Bogic-Ripic, Media Relations (289 Consulting)
ines.bogic@289consulting.com
Technical Specifications
Monday Organica Black
Case
- Case diameter: 40.8 mm
- Height excluding crystal: 10.5 mm
- Lug width: 21 mm
- Water resistance: 30 meters, 3 ATM
- Case material: Pt 950 platinum
- Case finishing: hand engraving on the caseband and between the lugs
Dial
- Motif: exclusive creation by Ateliers Olivier Vaucher, mixed métiers d’art techniques including hand engraving, hand chasing and black grand feu enamel
Calibre RVI2023
- Diameter: 36.8 mm
- Height: 6.69 mm
- Components: 274
- Frequency: 2.5 Hz, 18,000 vph
- Power reserve: minimum 60 hours
- Inward angles: 187
- Bridges and balance cock: titanium
- Micro-rotor: gold-plated platinum
- Platinum flywheel
- Barrel ratchet: additional plate, engraved, chased and grand feu enameled
Strap
- Black Monroe calfskin
- Hand-stitched
- White gold pin buckle
Monday Organica Bordeaux
Case
- Case diameter: 40.8 mm
- Height excluding crystal: 10.5 mm
- Lug width: 21 mm
- Water resistance: 30 meters, 3 ATM
- Case material: 5N rose gold
- Case finishing: hand engraving on the caseband and between the lugs
Dial
- Motif: exclusive creation by Ateliers Olivier Vaucher, mixed métiers d’art techniques including hand engraving, hand chasing and Bordeaux grand feu enamel
Calibre RVI2023
- Diameter: 36.8 mm
- Height: 6.69 mm
- Components: 274
- Frequency: 2.5 Hz, 18,000 vph
- Power reserve: minimum 60 hours
- Inward angles: 187
- Bridges and balance cock: titanium
- Micro-rotor: gold-plated platinum
- Platinum flywheel
- Barrel ratchet: additional silver plate, engraved, chased and grand feu enameled
Strap
- Beige Island calfskin
- Hand-stitched
- Rose gold pin buckle
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