Frank Gehry’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon watch
Louis Vuitton introduces Frank Gehry’s first-ever Excessive Watchmaking timepiece topped with translucent sapphire crystal, making the rose gold- and rhodium-plated gears, plate, and flying tourbillon stand out. The watch follows the architect’s handbag collection with the French trend home throughout Artwork Basel Miami in 2023, and it additionally types a part of the Louis Vuitton Excessive Watchmaking collection, which bears the mark of the Poinçon de Genève, an impartial establishment that certifies the manufacturing and ending of all of the parts that go into watchmaking.
photos courtesy of Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon watch with Louis Vuitton is the primary timepiece with a sapphire dial and case to bear the Poinçon de Genève seal, created, developed, and assembled by the artisans and watchmakers at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton in Geneva. The timepiece springs from the collaboration between La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton and architect Frank Gehry, impressed by the latter’s designs for the Maison, specifically the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the lately opened Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul.
Frank Gehry’s signature adorns the case again alongside the Poinçon de Genève seal
It’s the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul the place Frank Gehry drew his design influences for his Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon watch with sapphire crystal. For the Seoul Maison, he created a rippling glass construction that seems to drift over the roof of the constructing, an allusion to the motion of a ship’s sails. It runs in the identical vein because the architect’s work for the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the place he constructed a glass ship. Frank Gerhy brings them collectively in his first-ever watch (restricted solely to 5 items), downsizing them to create a miniature scale that wraps across the wearer’s wrist. ‘My inspiration comes from the ocean, fish, boats, and the nautical world as a result of they embody the notion of motion, mobility, velocity,’ Frank Gehry says on the grand opening of the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul. ‘I like to specific motion, inject this power and dynamic into static supplies.’
artisans on the La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton took 250 hours to supply the dial alone
Over 250 hours of expertise with louis vuitton’s artisans
La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton crafted sapphire into the crystalline face of Frank Gehry’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon watch, sourced from a single 200-kilo block of the crystal. The case, dial, crown, lugs, and palms have all been lower from this gem, which is dubbed the toughest on the planet after diamond, and artisans at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton took 250 hours to supply the dial alone, which is not any thicker than a sheet of paper. Handbook craftsmanship was put into play to sculpt and understand Frank Gehry’s architectural designs for the flying tourbillon watch. The dial makers even used medical instruments simply to breed the uneven types and curved swirls that hark again to Frank Gehry’s design ethos in his architectural works.
Louis Vuitton sculpted sapphire for Frank Gehry’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon watch
rose gold- and rhodium-plated gears and flying tourbillon
Ultimately, the sculpted sapphire glass places ahead the rose gold- and rhodium-plated gears, plate and flying tourbillon’ meticulous detailing contained in the watch, together with the chamfering and satin finishes. Frank Gehry’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon comes with an 80-hour energy reserve, and this hand-wound mechanical motion shows a Monogram Flower inside the tourbillon carriage. The architect’s signature adorns the case again alongside the Poinçon de Genève seal. After designing the Fondation Louis Vuitton constructing in Paris in 2014 and the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul in 2019, Frank Gehry agreed to tackle creating the primary Excessive Watchmaking timepiece of his profession. The ensuing watch could testify that he made the precise and acutely aware choice.
the dial makers even used medical instruments to breed the architectural types Frank Gehry
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identify: Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon De Genève Sapphire
architect: Frank Gehry
maison: Louis Vuitton
matthew burgos | designboom
mar 14, 2024
