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Dior: Can A Couture Giant Sell $8,500 Watches to Men?

Christian Dior Couture hopes to reinvigorate its watch division by relaunching its early 2000s Chiffre Rouge line — this time with fancier complications and a price to match.

The new Dior Chiffre Rouge collection. (Thue Nørgaard)

Robin Swithinbank

29 January 2024

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While Rihanna, Zendaya and Jennifer Lopez were making the noise at the couture shows in Paris last week, at its Avenue Montaigne store Dior’s luxury watch division quietly unveiled a collection of high-end Swiss-made mechanical watches. The brand — whose sales of categories like fashion, perfume, jewellery and homeware have boomed in recent years — hopes it can now inject some much-needed zip into its watch division.

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About the author

Robin Swithinbank

Robin Swithinbank is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Swithinbank is a London based journalist, editor, and speaker who specialises in luxury watches.

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