While viewing the early renderings for Jean Dunand's most recent timepiece

Every single Jean Dunand timepiece begins having a novel movement conceived by the 44-year-old Claret, whose eponymous watchmaking atelier has developed difficult movements for Harry Winston, Ulysse Nardin, and other premier marques. "The challenge is always to combine the three-dimensional technical concepts of Christophe Claret with designs that happen to be truly special," explains Oulevay. "We don't have distinct guidelines, but we do go by the golden guidelines of proportion, general style, and harmony." The Egyptians, too, favored the golden section rule, also referred to as divine proportion, a mathematical formula for segmenting proportions to make balanced and aesthetically pleasing forms.
"With Shabaka, the brief was very quick," says Oulevay with the watch's initial design directive. "We desired a robust design, some thing edgy with an intriguing form, but we respected the golden rule although mixing together the square and also the round shapes."see more copie de Breitling and Chopard Montres