Château de Môtiers: Flower of Life
Château de Môtiers: Flower of Life
BOVET 1822 has always granted mother-of-pearl a privileged place when it comes to adorning the dials of its women’s timepiece. The multiple re ections of mother-of-pearl sublimely enrich designs such as miniature paintings or scrolls in ammé or honeycomb guilloché.
For its new Château de Môtiers collection presented at the 2015 Salon, BOVET wanted to add an additional touch of symbolism with the universal Flower of Life theme. This symbol has been considered to be the fundamental model of creation for millennia thanks to its geometric design and is present in many cultures and religions. The secret of the Flower of Life was preserved for thousands of years in ancient artefacts and sculptures from around the world and is encoded in the very cells of all life forms.
The Flower of Life is composed of several overlapping, crisscrossing circles, emanating from a central circle. The basic geometric structure that develops from its center illustrates that all forms of life grow from a single source, in the same way as cellular division, which continues until each life form has achieved its most harmonious form.
According to Plato, the Flower of Life is the key to understanding the physics of the Cosmos. And the most famous scholars including Einstein, Pythagoras, Leonardo de Vinci and Newton all had the same profound intuition that simple, universal keys could systematically unlock the workings of all physical phenomena existing in the apparent chaos and disorder.
For the Flower of Life does indeed enable the geometric description of all forms, from our DNA to the movement of the galaxies. It is the essential language of the universe, of pure form and of divine proportion. The Flower of Life is a geometric diagram that represents the entire structure of the Universe, the Cosmos and its perfect order. Its proportions re ect the vibrant principles and geometric aspects that underpin the Universe.
The new Flower of Life dials will not only enhance the esthetics of the timepieces they adorn, but will add a symbolic dimension that aims to bring harmony and balance to the energies of the women who wear them.