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Louis Vuitton shows its watchmaking muscles

2023-03-08T21:19:15.910Z


La Fabrique du Temps, Geneva factory of the famous trunk maker, comes out of the shadows. His weapon of mass seduction? Automaton watches.


Vanitas vanitatum and omnia vanitas…

In 2021, the Louis Vuitton Time Factory created a surprise by unveiling an impressive horological Memento mori, the Tambour Carpe Diem.

A Jacquemart timepiece, the result of two years of development, produced in only a few copies, complexity requires, and offered at around half a million euros.

Its animations and horological complications earned it the daring prize at the last edition of the GPHG, the city of Geneva's grand prix d'horlogerie.

This year, the Geneva-based manufacturer intends to be even bolder.

It unveils not one, but three new Haute Horlogerie pieces: a Tambour Opera Automata whose five animations transform the Chinese-inspired dial into a 16-second horological spectacle,

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Source: lefigaro

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