There are watches that you discover. And then there are those that you observe.
With the new Monday Organica Noir and Bordeaux, Renaud Tixier today closes a triptych begun last year with a first interpretation in Bleu, quickly acquired in its entirety as soon as it was presented. Limited to just seven pieces each, these two new creations complete a story built around a dial that deliberately blurs the boundaries between nature and mechanics.
Beneath the apparent profusion of the pattern lies a particularly subtle watchmaking construction: the organic forms that seem to bloom across the surface of the dial take up the curves of three components of the RVI2023 caliber.
The Monday Organica is therefore never quite what one thinks one sees.
It is at once a work of artistic crafts and a graphic reading of the movement. A plant-like composition for the eye, a mechanical architecture for those who take the time to look for what hides behind appearances.
With the Black and the Bordeaux, Renaud Tixier now brings the two final colors of this trilogy, before opening a new chapter of his Monday project.
On this page
- Three colors for a single story
- Organica, when the organ meets the instrument
- Monday Organica Noir: the roots of the movement
- A mechanical root laid bare
- The Bordeaux, when nature reaches maturity
- The Ateliers Olivier Vaucher at the heart of the project
- The RVI2023 caliber, the other face of the Organica
- The movement as the source of the pattern
- A case designed like a jewel setting
- Two colors, two seasons of the same life
- A rarity conceived from the outset
- The final chapter before a new story
- Frequently asked questions
Three colors for a single story
The Monday Organica tells a single story in three shades.
The Blue, unveiled first, evoked a form of blossoming. The Black and the Bordeaux now extend this reading by developing the imagery associated with the pattern.
The composition nonetheless remains identical in principle. The organic design of the dial draws directly on the forms of three components of the RVI2023 caliber. What appears at first glance as decoration inspired by the plant world is therefore also an indirect representation of the mechanics.
It is this dual reading that makes the Organica so singular.
The eye can be satisfied with the beauty of the pattern without seeking to understand its origin. But for the watch enthusiast, knowing that these curves come from the architecture of the movement radically transforms the perception of the piece.
The dial then becomes a bridge between two worlds that are rarely brought together: that of the living and that of the mechanical.
Each version is limited to seven pieces. A number that holds a special place in Renaud Tixier’s world and that also echoes the six creations still to come, each one associated with a day of the week.
Three colors, seven pieces per color: a deliberately rare construction for a brand that makes confidentiality and exclusivity an integral part of its identity.
Organica, when the organ meets the instrument
The name Organica also deserves a closer look.
Its first evocation is obvious. The pattern of the dial recalls plant forms, ramifications, the structures of living things.
But its linguistic origin reveals a far more interesting connection with watchmaking.
Organica descends from the Greek organon, itself derived from ergon, meaning work and action. The term gave rise to the word “organ”, which in English designates both a part of the living body and the musical instrument. Two seemingly distant realities, one belonging to the living body, the other to music, yet sharing the same root.
The organ is what allows the living to function. The instrument is what allows humankind to act and to create.
In a mechanical watch, this duality takes on a particular resonance.
The movement too is made up of organs. Each has a precise function, each takes part in the collective action that allows the timepiece to measure time.
The Monday Organica plays precisely on this closeness.
The plant becomes mechanical. The mechanical becomes organic.
And the two ultimately merge in the design of the dial.
Monday Organica Noir: the roots of the movement
Among the two new interpretations, the Monday Organica Noir is perhaps the one that pushes this idea of the hidden the furthest.
Black is a color often associated with depth, mystery or restraint. In watchmaking, it is frequently obtained from natural stones, notably onyx, whose perfectly polished surface offers a presence that is at once dark and mineral.
Renaud Tixier and the Ateliers Olivier Vaucher chose a far more demanding path.
The black of the dial is created in grand feu enamel.
This technique is especially formidable when used to obtain a perfectly uniform black surface. The slightest bubble, the slightest inclusion or the slightest irregularity can become immediately visible.
Unlike an engraved decoration, which can divert attention from or slightly mask imperfections, black enamel forgives nothing.
The surface must be mastered down to the smallest detail.
This choice gives the dial of the Monday Organica Noir a particular depth. The black seems to absorb the light before letting the pattern emerge, as if the components of the movement took root in an almost abyssal material.
A mechanical root laid bare
This aesthetic naturally finds its extension in the symbolic interpretation of the Organica.
If the Blue evoked blossoming, the Black refers to what remains invisible.
The roots.
Everything that develops beneath the surface, far from view, and that nevertheless forms the necessary condition for the growth of what appears above ground.
The parallel with a mechanical watch is particularly evocative.
A movement works thanks to a multitude of elements that the wearer generally never sees. Wheel trains, springs, bridges, regulating organs and transmission components work together in a miniature world hidden beneath the dial.
The Monday Organica Noir thus seems to represent this invisible mechanism in the form of a plant landscape.
The Pt950 platinum case reinforces this impression. Its cool, luminous hue contrasts with the depth of the black dial and wraps the composition in a setting that escapes any seasonal reference.
The flanks of the caseband and the areas between the lugs are themselves hand-engraved, extending the craftsmanship into the very exterior architecture of the case.
The Bordeaux, when nature reaches maturity
The Monday Organica Bordeaux offers a radically different reading.
The pattern remains identical, but its color completely transforms the atmosphere of the watch.
The bordeaux chosen by Renaud Tixier is deep, dense, almost ripe. It naturally evokes fruit at full maturity, but also the time needed for that transformation.
In the symbolic universe of the Organica, the Bordeaux thus becomes the color of fulfillment.
Fruit is one of the most visible expressions of the plant cycle. It represents what comes after growth, after flowering, after the silent development of the roots.
Another reference also comes to mind: that of wine.
The bordeaux then evokes matter, maturation and time. The lees that settle at the bottom of the barrel, that rich and slow part which forms over the years, offers an almost natural correspondence with a mechanical watch whose every component also bears witness to patient work.
The 5N rose gold case accompanies this interpretation by bringing additional warmth to the whole.
Where the platinum of the Noir version established a cool contrast with the enamel, the rose gold seems to extend the fleshy character of the Bordeaux.
The Ateliers Olivier Vaucher at the heart of the project
The Monday Organica is above all a four-handed creation.
Renaud Tixier continues here his dialogue with the Ateliers Olivier Vaucher, whose mastery of artistic crafts applied to watchmaking has long been recognized.
The dial combines several artisanal techniques: hand engraving, hand chasing and grand feu enameling.
This combination is essential to the personality of the piece.
The enamel brings depth and color. The engraving and the chasing give life to the pattern and allow it to stand out from the surface.
The result is therefore never that of a simple image reproduced on a dial.
The decoration has a genuine physical dimension. It catches the light, creates shadows and gradually reveals its details with the movements of the wrist.
It is precisely this kind of work that reminds us that watchmaking artistic crafts are not simply about embellishing a watch. They make it possible to create a second reading of the timepiece.
The RVI2023 caliber, the other face of the Organica
Behind the decoration lies the true engine of this story: the RVI2023 caliber.
This movement, 36.8 mm in diameter and 6.69 mm thick, brings together 274 components.
Its operating frequency is deliberately kept to 2.5 Hz, or 18,000 vibrations per hour, and its power reserve reaches at least 60 hours.
But the figures tell only part of its identity.
The RVI2023 stands out in particular for its 187 inward angles, a level of finishing complexity that reflects the importance placed on manual work.
The bridges and the balance cock are made of titanium. The movement also features a micro-rotor with a gold-plated plate and a platinum inertia flywheel.
The barrel ratchet wheel is also a decorative piece in its own right. On the Noir version, it receives an additional plate that is engraved, chased and finished in grand feu enamel. On the Bordeaux version, this additional plate is made of silver before receiving the same decorative treatments.
The mechanical architecture and the dial decoration thus maintain a constant dialogue.
The movement as the source of the pattern
This is probably one of the most fascinating aspects of the Monday Organica.
The decoration was not conceived independently of the movement.
It comes from it.
The curves of three components of the RVI2023 caliber served as the raw material for the design of the dial. The mechanics thus literally becomes the source of the work of art.
This approach reverses a logic often found in watchmaking.
Usually, the movement is designed to meet technical constraints while the dial then receives its aesthetic identity.
At Renaud Tixier, the two seem to have been conceived as two sides of the same language.
The apparently natural quality of the pattern conceals a mechanical construction.
And the mechanics, in turn, finds in the living world a new way to express itself.
A case designed like a jewel setting
The two versions of the Monday Organica share the same dimensions.
The case measures 40.8 mm in diameter with a height of 10.5 mm without the crystal. The width between the lugs reaches 21 mm and water resistance is stated at 30 meters, or 3 ATM.
The essential difference lies in the material.
The Monday Organica Noir is dressed in Pt950 platinum.
The Monday Organica Bordeaux, for its part, adopts a 5N rose gold case.
In both cases, the flanks of the caseband and the areas between the lugs are hand-engraved.
This finishing makes it possible to extend the work of the dial onto the least immediately visible parts of the watch. Nothing is left to chance in this search for coherence between the artistic crafts and the watchmaking architecture.
Two colors, two seasons of the same life
The Blue, the Black and the Bordeaux can ultimately be seen as three moments of a single story.
The Blue was that of blossoming.
The Black is that of the roots, of depth and of what is built away from view.
The Bordeaux is that of maturity, of the fruit and of the time needed to reach its richest expression.
What might have been merely a chromatic variation exercise thus becomes a genuine narrative.
Color is not merely decorative. It changes the meaning that can be given to the pattern.
It is this approach that allows Renaud Tixier to close the triptych without giving the impression of simply offering two new variants.
A rarity conceived from the outset
Rarity here is inseparable from the philosophy of the project.
Each color is limited to seven pieces.
The Monday Organica Noir and Bordeaux are therefore not intended for wide distribution. They are aimed at a restricted circle of collectors capable of appreciating both the mechanical complexity of the RVI2023 and the artistic craftsmanship carried out on the dial.
This confidentiality is consistent with Renaud Tixier’s approach.
The brand does not seek to multiply variations, but to build pieces capable of developing their own identity.
Seven pieces per color are enough here to place the Monday Organica within a form of rarity in which each watch becomes almost a fragment of a larger story.
The final chapter before a new story
With the Monday Organica Noir and the Monday Organica Bordeaux, Renaud Tixier thus completes a narrative begun with the Blue.
But this conclusion looks more like a transition than an ending.
The principle of the Monday creations rests in fact on an association between the seven days of the week and seven creations destined to come to life.
The Organica will thus have formed a particularly coherent chromatic trilogy.
Three dials, three atmospheres, three readings of a single mechanical pattern.
Behind these variations lies a simple but profoundly watchmaking idea: time transforms matter, the living as well as wine, but it also transforms the perception we have of an object.
The Monday Organica plays with this notion by presenting a mechanism in the form of an organic landscape.
The Black brings us back to the roots.
The Bordeaux leads us toward the fruit.
And the Blue had opened the way with blossoming.
Three colors, twenty-one pieces in total, and a single mechanical architecture turned into artistic material.
At Renaud Tixier, the movement decidedly does not merely bring the watch to life.
It also gives it its language.
Technical specifications
Renaud Tixier Monday Organica Noir
Limited edition: 7 pieces
Case: Pt950 platinum
Diameter: 40.8 mm
Height without crystal: 10.5 mm
Lug width: 21 mm
Water resistance: 30 meters / 3 ATM
Case finishing: caseband flanks and areas between the lugs hand-engraved
Dial: exclusive creation by the Ateliers Olivier Vaucher
Decoration: hand engraving, hand chasing and black grand feu enamel
Movement: RVI2023 caliber
Diameter: 36.8 mm
Thickness: 6.69 mm
Components: 274
Frequency: 2.5 Hz / 18,000 vibrations per hour
Power reserve: minimum 60 hours
Inward angles: 187
Bridges and balance cock: titanium
Micro-rotor: gold-plated plate
Inertia flywheel: platinum
Barrel ratchet wheel: additional plate engraved, chased and finished in grand feu enamel
Strap: black Monroe calf, hand-stitched
Buckle: white gold pin buckle
Renaud Tixier Monday Organica Bordeaux
Limited edition: 7 pieces
Case: 5N rose gold
Diameter: 40.8 mm
Height without crystal: 10.5 mm
Lug width: 21 mm
Water resistance: 30 meters / 3 ATM
Case finishing: caseband flanks and areas between the lugs hand-engraved
Dial: exclusive creation by the Ateliers Olivier Vaucher
Decoration: hand engraving, hand chasing and bordeaux grand feu enamel
Movement: RVI2023 caliber
Diameter: 36.8 mm
Thickness: 6.69 mm
Components: 274
Frequency: 2.5 Hz / 18,000 vibrations per hour
Power reserve: minimum 60 hours
Inward angles: 187
Bridges and balance cock: titanium
Micro-rotor: gold-plated plate
Inertia flywheel: platinum
Barrel ratchet wheel: additional silver plate, engraved, chased and finished in grand feu enamel
Strap: beige Island calf, hand-stitched
Buckle: rose gold pin buckle
Frequently asked questions
Two new versions of Renaud Tixier’s Monday Organica, which close a triptych begun last year with a first version in Bleu. Each is limited to seven pieces.
What looks like plant-based decoration in fact takes up the curves of three components of the RVI2023 caliber: the dial deliberately blurs the boundary between nature and mechanics.
Seven pieces per version. The number seven echoes Renaud Tixier’s Monday project, in which each creation is associated with a day of the week (six are still to come).
The Ateliers Olivier Vaucher. The Noir version uses a particularly demanding black enamel, which gives the dial an abyssal depth from which the pattern emerges.
A series of creations conceived by Renaud Tixier, each associated with a day of the week. The Monday is its first chapter, offered here in the three colors of the Organica before the opening of a new chapter.
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