As a further testament to the brand’s outstanding timepiece craftsmanship, the Louis Vuitton Diem models come with a retro-minute, power reserve display, the automata, and a jumping hour. If you turn this watch over, you will see the hand-wound LV 525 caliber mechanical movement that features a skull, 48 jewels, and 426 separate components. On the wrist, the 14mm thick and 46mm wide pink gold case is pleasingly comfortable. After hand-engraving, the snake, teeth, and dial are perfectly enameled by Anita Porchet, who is probably the most prominent enameller in the watchmaking industry. The natural hand-engraving on the Carpe Diem watch was done by Dick Steenman, who owns the Geneva Art&D workshop and has long been known as the leading specialist for decoration, especially when it comes to gemstone settings. The impressive aesthetic appearance of the dial from its surface to the other element over it is the work of two skilled artisans Anita Porchet and Dick Steenman. The snake and dial textures are perfectly accentuated, featuring translucent enamel and teeth coated in blazing white enamel. Every element of the dial is immaculately engraved – skull, hourglass, teeth, and snake – with exceptional textures of the snakeskin and skull. The brand’s desire for art and visual glamor is a clear demonstration of a real skull concept being showcased both artistically and technically in this timepiece.
The manufacturing brand incorporated the “memento mori” concept by featuring a skull on the dial of the timepiece and serving as an integrated part of the watch’s movement structural bridge system. The sheer level of artisanal detailing on the timepiece is very impressive, along with the visual complexity of the animated dial.
TAMBOUR CARPE DIEM SERIES
One essential part of the Tambour Diem watch series is that they are specifically designed and decorated to meet the eye of the brand’s most influential group of VIP customers. It also incorporates many of the highly-favored themes in the complex watchmaking designs, movements, and impressive styles. Nonetheless, this Tambour Diem timepiece is a unique modern-day watch whose artisanal decoration reminisces the transience of high-end material goods and the fragility of life. Even though Louis Vuitton’s prestigious timepieces are impressive, they don’t often get enough respect and attention from several watch enthusiasts because of their flamboyant designs.
Like other well-known manufacturing brands that have experimented in watchmaking, the brand has dabbled with a wide array of fashion designs and price points when it comes to their timepieces. The leading manufacturing brand Louis Vuitton, began producing luxurious timepieces in the early 2000s, which proved to work well with some of Switzerland’s prominent suppliers and watchmakers. Here, we will discuss more about the Carpe Diem Automaton Watch. Moreover, all engraving on the Caseback is done by Dick Steenman of the Art&D in Geneva, where plenty of effort and time is put in to decorate and build them. This timepiece is also a minute’s repeater, fitted with a quadruple jacquemart, and it features four automata, besides the retro-minutes-display. One noteworthy feature about this timepiece is its artisanal hand-painting and hand-engravings on the dial, which displays additional hours that a master watchmaker needs to complete to make one Carpe Diem watch. This high-end watch was developed and entirely produced in-house at Du Temps La Fabrique, the complications specialist in Geneva. In its efforts to become the world’s leading technical watchmaker, the brand recently released the Louis Vuitton Diem Carpe Automaton timepiece for 2021.