Louis Vuitton Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon “Poinçon de Genève” Sapphire
Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon ”Poinçon de Genève” Sapphire watch features a case entirely crafted from a block of sapphire. A true technical and artistic feat, this completely transparent creation – the first of its kind in the history of watchmaking to be stamped with the Geneva Seal – launches a new era, displaying in minute detail every part of its skilfully open-worked manufacture movement, powered by a flying tourbillon.
Bound to appeal to enthusiasts, this new high-watchmaking timepiece reveals every detail of its exceptional, finely openworked mechanical movement with manual winding, an 80-hour power reserve and a flying tourbillon whose carriage design reveals that of a delicate Monogram flower.
For every piece, the engineers from La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton have extracted a cylinder – 50 mm in diameter and 150 mm long – from a block of synthetic sapphire that can weigh up to 200 kg. This allows them to obtain a case middle, a case back and a bridge bearing the letters LV, cut from the same block in order to ensure that each section is the same colour. It takes 250, 110 and 60 hours respectively of meticulous machining with diamond grinding wheels to produce the three parts.
The hour markers and the 12 LOUIS VUITTON letters engraved on the exterior of the concave case middle have been filled with coloured lacquer. Across the sapphire drum, the screw-down case-back features a transparent joint. This invisible part guarantees water resistance to 3ATM, as is the case for all Louis Vuitton high-watchmaking timepieces. This new creation from La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton as part of the Tambour Moon collection represents the most outstanding demonstration of expertise from the workshop’s artisans in terms of aesthetics and mechanical balance.
La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton has opted to retain the crescent moon-shaped case of the Tambour Moon launched in 2017 for its experimentation with a new material: synthetic sapphire. The transparency, hardness, soft feel and sensation of lightness that this material provides reveal nothing of the technical prowess required to obtain it.
The Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon ”Poinçon de Genève” Sapphire is available in a colourless version with black PVD-treated titanium horns, in blue sapphire with 950 platinum horns, or in a pink sapphire with horns made of 18-carat pink gold. Thanks to its absolute transparency, the case reveals every detail of the calibre it encloses, from all angles.
The Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon”Poinçon de Genève” Sapphire is the first sapphire timepiece to be stamped with the Geneva Seal.
Technical details
Model: Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon ”Poinçon de Genève” Sapphire
Movement
LV 90 calibre: mechanical movement with manual winding developed and assembled at la Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton
“Poinçon de Genève” certification, visible on the central bridge LV in sapphire and in the back of the sapphire case
Skeleton flying tourbillon, hours and minutes, monogram flower tourbillon cage rotating in one minute
160 components
80 hours of power reserve
21 600 oscillations per hour
17 jewels
Case
Sapphire case
Titanium crown and horns, with black sand-blasted PVD treatment
42.5 mm diameter
9.90 mm thickness
Anti-reflection sapphire crystal
Water-resistant to 30 m
Strap
Black alligator strap
Titanium ardillon buckle
Box
High watchmaking trunk
Model: Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon ”Poinçon de Genève” Blue Sapphire
Movement
LV 97 Calibre: mechanical movement with manual winding developed and assembled at la Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton
“Poinçon de Genève” certification, visible on the central bridge LV in blue sapphire and in the back of the blue sapphire case
Skeleton flying tourbillon, hours and minutes, monogram flower tourbillon cage rotating in one minute
160 components
80 hours of power reserve
21 600 oscillations per hour
17 jewels
Case
Blue sapphire case
Platinum Pt 950 crown and horns
42.5 mm diameter
9.90 mm thickness
Anti-reflection sapphire crystal
Water-resistant to 30 m
Strap
Blue alligator strap
Platinum Pt 950 ardillon buckle
Box
High watchmaking trunk
Model: Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Volant ”Poinçon de Genève” Pink Sapphire
Movement
LV 99 Calibre: mechanical movement with manual winding developed and assembled at la Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton
“Poinçon de Genève” certification, visible on the central bridge LV in pink sapphire and in the back of the pink sapphire case
Skeleton flying tourbillon, hours and minutes, monogram flower tourbillon cage rotating in one minute
160 components
80 hours of power reserve
21 600 oscillations per hour
17 jewels
Case
Pink sapphire case
18K pink gold crown and horns
42.5 mm diameter
9.90 mm thickness
Anti-reflection sapphire crystal
Water-resistant to 30 m
Strap
Pink alligator strap
18K pink gold ardillon buckle
Box
High watchmaking trunk
