The legendary Italian erotic comic book writer, Milo Manara, has teamed up with Ulysse Nardin, the independent watch manufacture renowned for its arts and crafts expertise, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the artist's famous work, Déclic.
To mark the occasion, Ulysse Nardin has reproduced three iconic illustrations from Manara's work using the technique of miniature painting. In the town of Le Locle, deep in the heart of the Swiss Jura mountains, this unique expertise requiring unparalleled manual dexterity is practised and sustained by the craftspeople at Ulysse Nardin.
It takes hundreds of hours of miniature painting work to faithfully reproduce Manara's illustrations on the watch dials, the surface of which is only a tenth of the size of the original watercolours.
Limited Edition of 40 pieces
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Driven by the UN-320 self-winding manufacture movement, these timepieces feature the silicon technology that Ulysse Nardin has been using for several decades, and which guarantees high strength and durability.
Limited Edition of 40 pieces
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The hands are discreetly rendered to give prominence to the illustrations.
"Watchmaking is particularly well suited to this subject, since eroticism is timeless."