Louis Vuitton Teams With Frank Gehry for Sapphire Stunner

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Louis Vuitton added ‘watch designer’ to the awesome database of accomplishments by renowned designer Frank Gehry.

The caller Louis Vuitton Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poincon de Geneve Sapphire Frank Gehry.

The new Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève Sapphire Frank Gehry results from a collaboration with Gehry and Louis Vuitton, which adds the ticker to its High Watchmaking collection.

The stunning 48.3mm flying tourbillon ticker has a wide sapphire case, dial, crown, lugs, and hands. Its transparent architecture allows the wearer to person an uninterrupted presumption of the flying tourbillon caliber, which was produced and assembled astatine La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton.

When creating the caller watch, Gehry was inspired by his enactment astatine the Fondation Louis Vuitton successful Paris and the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul. For example, the dial echoes Gehry’s rippling solid operation atop the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul. Like that structure, which appears to interval implicit the building's roof, the dial connected the ticker is besides meant to callback the airiness of the nautical world.

“My inspiration comes from the sea, fish, boats, the nautical satellite due to the fact that they embody the conception of movement, mobility, speed,” said Gehry.“I similar to explicit movement, inject this vigor and dynamic into static materials.”

Louis Vuitton explains that its artisans crafted the watch's crystalline look from a azygous 200-kilo artifact of sapphire. With 250 hours of enactment required to implicit conscionable the dial, the task was 1 of the astir ever made by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton.

The watchmaker’s dial artisans utilized aesculapian tools to make the asymmetric forms and curves that echo galore of Gehry’s architectural projects.

The Louis Vuitton Tambour Moon Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève Sapphire is the archetypal ticker with a sapphire dial and lawsuit to carnivore the Poinçon de Genève seal. It is fitted with the manufacturer's flying tourbillon LFT MM05.01. Thanks to the afloat sapphire lawsuit and dial, the rose-gold-bridged question is wholly visible. (See beneath for afloat method specifications.)

Price: $935,000.

Specifications: Louis Vuitton Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève Sapphire Frank Gehry

(Limited variation of 5 pieces)

Case:

• Case, lugs and crown successful sapphire• Frank Gehry’s signature engraved connected the case-back • 43.8 mm diameter• 11.27 mm thickness• Anti-reflection sapphire crystal• Water-resistant to 30 meters

Dial:

• Sapphire, polished and mattified by hand, inspired by Frank Gehry’s architectural works

• Sapphire hands, outline successful HyCeram Luminex (luminescent pigments)

Movement:

• Caliber LFTMM05.01: mechanical question with manual winding developed and assembled by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton

“Poinçon de Genève” certification, disposable connected the cardinal bridgeFunctions: skeleton flying tourbillon, hours and minutes, Monogram angiosperm tourbillon cage rotating successful 1 minute160 components80 hours of powerfulness reserve21,600 vibrations per hour17 jewels

Strap:  White taurillon leather strap with a roseate golden folding buckle.

Price: $935,000.