Watches and Wonders Geneva watch fair, Arnaud Chastaingt, director of Chanel’s Watchmaking Creation Studio, cites the oeuvre of Pedro Winter, aka ‘Busy P’, of Ed Banger Records, whose glittering CV includes 12 years as manager of Daft Punk.Chastaingt is emerging as an intriguing force at Chanel.
Most recently, he spent four years redesigning Jacques Helleu’s masterpiece, the J12. The watch emerged massively changed – apparently 80 per cent of the components were updated – yet it appears barely altered.
Now it is almost as if, having honoured the classic J12 with his respectful 20th-anniversary makeover, he takes the once austere horological icon on a wild psychedelic trip into the polychromatic universe of the rainbow setting with the.
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