Tambour carpe diem
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(Photo: Louis Vuitton)Ī gentle press of the right-sided pusher shaped like a reptile at 2 o’clock breathes life into the dial’s miniature scenery. In lieu, the jumping hour and the retrograde minute are creatively integrated into the automaton. The automaton is constructed as such to tell the time on demand without the deployment of traditional hour and minute hands. To realise this vision, the watch is built upon the automaton which offers more than floridity and animation as it is truly functional. “The prowess was to create a mechanical movement that is quite powerful to integrate and smoothly operate all these functions that had never been brought together before,” Navas further explains. Two years in the making, in this arresting Tambour Carpe Diem, the jacquemart is roused back into making a triumphant reawakening.Ī smorgasbord of complications, the watch counts a jumping hour, a retrograde minute, a power reserve indicator and an automaton among its functions. Already producing automata for select clients for a number of years, Louis Vuitton set out to restore the original meaning of the jacquemart.
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Over time as miniaturisation of timepieces set in, the jacquemart was pared down to become virtually decorative, purged of its original purpose and mechanism, and what remained was only the motif alluding to its provenance – the skull, the hour glass, the flower and other transient symbols. Though in the case of the Town Hall of Benfeld, the jacquemart plays a rather grim reminder in an unvarnished execution of such ideals, featuring three statues representative of prudence, justice and death. Closely associated with the church, the jacquemart would take on a religious connotation aesthetically, often assuaged in the style of memento mori, as a result. As automata, jacquemarts were originally housed at churches dating as far back as mediaeval times where they performed the essential role of chiming on an hourly basis to alert occupants of the passage of time as the sound of the bell reverberated about town.