Venezianico Redentore L'Odalisca

The inspiration comes from late 19th-century Italian painting — a Mediterranean courtyard at rest, feminine figures held in warm afternoon light, untouched by the hours moving past. Tiled floors, painted walls, a doorway opening onto a sunlit garden. The kind of scene Italian fine art returned to often, looking for a way to hold a moment outside time.

Our artists carry that suspension onto the dial — hand-painted in soft architectural tones and the hush of late afternoon, every brushstroke tracing skin, light, and shadow with the care of an atelier study. The composition leans on the visual lineage of classical figurative painting, where the figure at rest became a way to step outside the clock. Beneath sapphire, the scene becomes a small canvas of fine figurative art, miniaturized to wear.

Each dial is painted by hand by our artists, one piece at a time. A scene held in its own quiet — the figure at rest, the courtyard still in afternoon light, the painting holding its hour while the watch keeps time.

The composition has a real author. Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, born in Frascati in 1844, was an Italian painter known for richly detailed scenes of figures, gardens, and architecture set in soft, unhurried light. A widely traveled artist, he filled his canvases with the textures of far places — stone, water, foliage, and fabric — rendered with the patience of a 19th-century narrative painter. The L’Odalisca draws on one of those works, reinterpreted by our artists rather than reproduced, a painter’s vision given a second life on the wrist.