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The Arceau Wild Singapore has a dial featuring the face of a lion — a nod to Singapore’s status as a Lion City — woven in gold threads. The watch dial design takes its inspiration from the eponymous silk scarf designed by Alice Shirley for the 2021 spring-summer collection. To make this artwork stand out, artisans work on a gold base, where a varnish is applied and the motif is transferred, before meticulously painting the elements that will appear under and around the gold threads. Shapes and colours come to life through a multitude of layers of micro-painting, successively applied with a brush and dried in a hot kiln. It is then assembled on the dial surface through a multitude of threads — three times finer than a human hair — giving depth to the scene.