Les Indomptables de Cartier

This is not a watch, it is a volatile peacock, whose flight releases it from its mother-of-pearl marquetry face. A bejewelled brooch set with brilliant-cut diamonds on a ruby flower framed by nephrite jade leaves. Sometimes it alights on the face, clipping itself on to form a figure in the round whose volumes carve out time. Sometimes it leaves the hours free to reveal their mother-of-pearl field, blooming with sculpted white gold, studded with red and green in a hail of dazzling brilliant-cut diamonds.