The bloom on Richard Mille’s RM-19-02 Tourbillon Fleur opens to reveal a spinning cage.

The bloom on Richard Mille’s RM-19-02 Tourbillon Fleur opens to reveal a spinning cage.
The bloom on Richard Mille’s RM-19-02 Tourbillon Fleur opens to reveal a spinning cage.
The peacock tail of Fabergé’s Lady Compliquée is a retrograde minutes display.
Butterflies indicate the time on Christophe Claret’s Marguerite.
The Jaquet Droz Lady 8 Flower opens on command.
Sapphire butterflies swirl about the rotor of the Graff Disco Butterfly. The design can also be finished in rubies, emeralds, or diamonds.
The rotor on the Dior VIII Grand Bal Piéce Unique Envol passes over a bed of mother-of-pearl, gold, diamonds or gemstones, and scarab beetle wings.
Motion powers diamonds in the Ballon Bleu de Cartier Serti Vibrant (left); the sun and moon in Cartier’s Rêves de Panthères, in which the cats rest on a bed of pavé diamonds (center); and Blancpain’s Day Night (right), with a celestial scene rendered in diamonds and sapphires.