A work of art on the wrist

A concordance of times, the Sète artist Hervé Di Rosa is being highlighted three times this summer. Recently installed under the dome of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in a Christian Lacroix-branded suit with buttons representing his favorite eye, the former punk is on a roll. The Centre Pompidou is offering a retrospective exhibition of his works, until August 26, and his name is even mentioned for the creation of the new stained glass windows of Notre-Dame. Any new field of creative experimentation stimulates this visual artist. Watchmaking is no exception to his spectre. The painter, a pillar of the free figuration movement, has long been a discerning amateur, as evidenced by the Reverso often seen on his wrist.

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But, apart from the Dirowatch watch made in the early 1990s with Lito, his art had not yet been the subject of a watchmaking transposition. “The god of time for Hervé Di Rosa, embodied by a tantric character named “Ah! Ah! Ah!” lent itself perfectly to the conception…