Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has created a transparent watch for luxury brand Louis Vuitton informed by his Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul buildings.
Named the Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève Sapphire Frank Gehry, the watch has a rippling sapphire case that was informed by Gehry's architecture.
Frank Gehry has created a watch for Louis Vuitton
The watch's case, dial, crown, lugs and hands were all cut from a single 200-kilogram block of sapphire.
Its dial was engraved with a rippling form that evokes the architecture of the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul store's glass facade and the sail-like form of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
The watch has a transparent case and dial To determine the waves on the watch face, Gehry crumpled up a blown-up picture of the watch.
"To distil this powerful yet airy signature ? a poetic allusion to the movement of a boat's sails ? the architect printed out a large-scale photograph of the 2022 Tambour Moon Saphir and crumpled the paper to create the new model's dial," said Louis Vuitton.
"Echoing the glass ship he built for the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Gehry has created a mini-structure in watch form that provides the same impressions of airiness and depth, but on a miniature scale."

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