According to the author of comics, for many erotic, and Italian illustrator Milo Manara, eroticism is intended as an “intellectual shaping of sex”. Moreover and for the latter, “watchmaking lends itself particularly well to this theme because eroticism is eternal”. This is why in 2019, on the occasion of the SIHH show – now renamed Watches
Milo Manara, this virtuoso septuagenarian, lover of the works of Rubens, Caravaggio and De Chirico, also a disciple of Hugo Pratt or collaborator of Federico Fellini, had therefore unveiled ten voluptuous watches with delicately erotic dials. A horological vertical, true testimony to Manara’s passion for the curves of female bodies, which told the story of an underwater love between a mermaid, Ulyssa, and a beautiful young woman, Nadia. Continuing his work of permanent reinterpretation of the ideal model, the Italian master returns with a second series of three Ulysse Nardin timepieces whose dials are inspired by plates taken from his monument of eroticism: Le Déclic.
A masterpiece of lascivious comics, Le Déclic, launched in 1983, tells the adventures of the very bourgeois Claudia Cristiani who manipulates her husband to copulate more freely with men, animals or objects, while the sassy Miel serves as the initiator to a man in love with his insufferable boss. These characters, often with little nuance and which serve as pretexts for delirious scripts that are often delectable, are therefore found on the three new Classico watches fashioned in the workshops of Ulysse Nardin.
Recently presented at the famous Huberty art gallery
These are each adorned with a 40 mm steel box. They are powered by a self-winding manufacture UN-320 movement that incorporates silicon technology that Ulysse Nardin has mastered for two decades. A guarantee of efficiency and durability. The crown of this new limited edition is decorated with red lacquer, paying homage to the button of the famous erotic remote control illustrated in Le Déclic de Manara. Finally, and to better appreciate the illustrations, only the hours and minutes are displayed on the dials.
