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Renaud Tixier opens up the Monday with a Skeleton Blue

The new RVI2025 shows its micro-rotor system through the dial, framed by white gold and petrol-blue details; the caseback photograph reads 1 OF 15, and pricing is on request.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 4 min read · 21 October 2026

• The Monday Skeleton Blue has an openworked RVI2025 automatic calibre and retains Renaud Tixier's micro-rotor winding system with its dancer mechanism.
• Its 40.8 mm, 18 ct white-gold case surrounds a skeleton dial with petrol-blue small seconds, a white minute track and blue alligator strap.
• The official caseback photograph is engraved 1 OF 15; the list price is on request and an Australian allocation is not stated.

Renaud Tixier has taken the mechanical idea at the centre of its Monday and opened it to view. The Monday Skeleton does more than remove metal from a dial: its RVI2025 movement is designed as an exposed structure, with the winding system still doing the technical work that distinguished the original Monday. The blue version pairs that movement with an 18 ct white-gold case and petrol-blue details. Its official product page carries a 20 October 2026 publication date. The maker calls it a limited edition, and its official caseback photograph is engraved 1 OF 15. The list price is on request.

What the Monday Skeleton exposes

The original Monday used Renaud Tixier's RVI2023 movement. The brand says that movement was not designed to be skeletonised, even if its shapes suggested the possibility. The RVI2025 is the answer: an openworked calibre built around that visual purpose. Its 262 components are visible through the dial and caseback, and the watch uses a small seconds display in petrol blue to give the eye a fixed point among the moving parts. Skeletonised dauphine-style hour and minute hands continue the open structure rather than covering it.

That arrangement poses a familiar problem for a skeleton watch. Showing more of the movement can make telling the time harder. Renaud Tixier uses a white minute track on the upper level of the chapter ring and faceted appliqués beneath it. The blue counter supplies another clear boundary. Those details should make the hands and seconds easier to locate, though a photograph cannot settle how quickly the watch reads on a wrist in changing light. The open movement remains the dominant view; this is a piece for someone who wants to see the mechanism each time they check the time.

The case is 40.8 mm across and 12.6 mm high, with a 21 mm lug width. Both the case and pin buckle are 18 ct white gold. The brand specifies hand engraving on the case flanks and in the spaces between the lugs, making the gold case part of the decorative work rather than a plain frame for the calibre. It rates water resistance at 30 metres. That is a modest figure and should be read as a limit for everyday splashes, not an invitation to use a costly openworked watch in water.

The dancer remains behind the open dial

The most substantial reason to look past the decoration is the winding system. Renaud Tixier retains its patented micro-rotor mechanism, with a platinum micro-rotor and platinum flywheel coupled to a propulsion spring. The brand calls the moving assembly inside the rotor “the dancer”. Its purpose is to recover energy from small wrist movements. The maker also describes a declutching mechanism intended to protect the movement during a shock. These are brand explanations of the design; without independent timing or durability tests, they should not be turned into measured performance claims.

The automatic RVI2025 runs at 2.5 Hz, or 18,000 beats an hour, and has a stated minimum power reserve of 72 hours. It has 29 jewels. At 36.8 mm across and 6.83 mm high, the movement fills a substantial portion of the case. Those proportions help explain why the skeleton treatment looks architectural rather than like a small mechanism floating inside a broad dial. The blue small-seconds counter and chapter-ring details add colour at the edges without obscuring the central parts.

Finishing is a large part of the proposition. Renaud Tixier lists black polishing, rounded bridges, bevels, Côtes de Genève, sunray finishing and circular graining, and says the movement has 238 inward angles. Through the caseback, a hand-engraved bridge over the barrel ratchet includes grand feu enamel in a tone chosen to match the watch. The two official views show different sides of that work: the front concentrates on the exposed gear train and blue display, while the back gives the winding architecture and engraved bridge room to be seen. The count of inward angles is a maker claim; the photographs establish the general character of the finishing, not a way to audit every angle.

The blue version comes on a hand-stitched blue alligator strap. Its colour carries the dial accents outside the case, though it also narrows the watch's visual range: this is not a restrained monochrome take on skeletonisation. Renaud Tixier's catalogue also shows a green Monday Skeleton. The blue reference discussed here is RVI2025MONSK2, and its own page supplies the specifications and images. Keeping to that exact reference matters because the two variants share the underlying movement but make different colour choices.

Monday Skeleton Blue pricing and availability

Renaud Tixier labels the Monday Skeleton Blue a limited edition and lists its price as “on request”. The official caseback photograph is engraved 1 OF 15, though the product-page text gives no separate edition breakdown. The page provides no Australian allocation or firm delivery date. An interested buyer would need to ask the maker or one of its listed partners for price and delivery terms. The watch's strongest case is visible now: a skeleton movement that preserves Monday's distinctive winding idea and gives its mechanics, finishing and blue accents a coherent place in the design. The buying details need a direct enquiry rather than an invented number.