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Having become a veritable Louis Vuitton mascot, the mischievous Vivienne embarks on extraordinary adventures. With two new versions of the Tambour Slim Vivienne Heures Sautantes, Louis Vuitton is unveiling a fresh facet of the character.
In 2017, when Louis Vuitton first came up with Vivienne, this dainty little character quickly carved out her own niche in the brand’s creative universe. The poetic icon, with a silhouette inspired by the Monogram Flower, found her way into the Maison’s jewellery, watchmaking, ready-to-wear and leather goods collections.
Louis Vuitton chose a pastel colour palette for the Sakura – “cherry blossom” in Japanese – model, thus imbuing the timepiece with all the elegance and fragility of these fleeting flowers. Its white gold case, featuring diamond-studded lugs, allows the iridescent Monogram flowers to flourish on the surface of its pink mother-of-pearl dial. This subtle interplay of light is heightened by the shine of white diamonds delicately inlaid around Vivienne’s face, as well as by the miniature cherry blossoms and branches that were hand-painted.
As for Astronaut Vivienne, Louis Vuitton created an exceptional dial that combines blue mother-of-pearl with an aventurine stone for the very first time inside the collection. This unprecedented blend creates a deep, glimmering Milky Way sky. Amid a diamond constellation and miniature paintings of a rocket and planets, Vivienne appears in the dial’s centre in an astronaut suit with red and black hand-painted details.
La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton imagined a highly innovative mechanical jumping hour movement that was entirely created, developed and assembled within the Maison’s workshop in Geneva. The brand’s watchmakers chose an unconventional way of telling the time, alternating between the two separate apertures placed in the dials of the Tambour Slim Vivienne Jumping Hours. An almost invisible minute hand only adds to the mystery of this unprecedented display.
May 30, 2024