The shimmering pink band, made from stingray skin, called galuchat in French, would be attached later.
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It also comes with a bracelet studded with de Grisogono's signature galuchat (a type of rough, textured leather) and a few exclusive watch faces.
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In 18th century France, it was fairly common to come across objects made of Galuchat, a type of cartilaginous fish leather named after Jean-Claude Galluchat, the artisan who invented its tanning process.
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The limited edition watch — which no one who has ever come into contact with anything resembling taste would wear — also features the galuchat watch band found on de Grisogono's traditional watches, and a pair of watch faces designed by the jeweler.
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Traumatized since her childhood, Frederique - nicknamed the Trout - retaliates against men by seducing them to exploit them without ever giving herself. She marries Galuchat, a homosexual and lives for a while in Japan with Saint-Genis, a businessman whom she met at the same time as a rich couple, the Ramberts.
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His work has been described as compromising between tradition and modernism. For the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in 1925, he designed a woman's bedchamber with a pink and gray palette. The room featured tended walls of Soie stitching. The furniture in the room was rounded and covered in natural Galuchat.
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Delage R. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. This was followed by Le bailli in Babiole (16 January 1878), the title role in Maître Péronilla (13 March 1878), Galuchat in Pont d’Avignon (3 September 1878) and Boum in La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (5 October 1878).Noel E and Stoullig E. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 4eme édition, 1878.
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Sources are not clear whether this was being done to imitate pearl ray-skin shagreen from East Asia or if the technique was developed separately. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the term "shagreen" began to be applied to leather made from sharkskin or the skin of a rayfish (probably the pearled ray, Hypolophus sephen). This form is also termed sharkskin or galuchat. Such skins are naturally covered with round, closely set, calcified papillae called placoid scales, whose size is chiefly dependent on the age and size of the animal.
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The serrated spine of the cowtail stingray is potentially dangerous, and this species is regarded as particularly dangerous to handle as its long tail is capable of reaching over its back to strike someone gripping it from the front. Small to moderate numbers of cowtail stingrays are caught as bycatch in trawls and marketed for meat throughout their range, and their tough skin is used to polish wood. This species is also the primary source of shagreen or galuchat, a type of leather, for which it has been valued since ancient times due to the large size and regular arrangement of its dorsal tubercles (called "pearls" in the trade from their nacreous appearance after being rubbed down, hence the old name "pearled ray"). A boom in the international shagreen trade since the 1990s, with the material being used in many fashion accessories from wallets to fancy pens, has led to enormous numbers of cowtail stingrays being harvested in Southeast Asia.
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