While the exuberantly multi-colored Escale WorldTime was making media headlines over the past two years, Louis Vuitton was discreetly accompanying the relocation of its Fabrique du Temps into its new Geneva-based Manufacture with a development featuring a blend of understated aesthetics and advanced technical sophistication : its very first flying tourbillon bearing the “Poinçon de Genève”. Proudly engraved on the front at 9 o’clock, this guarantee of the quality of all the (in-house-made) components notably applies to the entirely specular-polished V of the tourbillon carriage, to the bridges that are horizontally satin-brushed and chamfered on both faces, and to the platinum case featuring alternating mirror polishing and circular satin-brushing. The shape of the case, combining a square with a circle, is also unprecedented. The overall sense of purity also emanates from the new openworked movement whose regulating organ appears to be levitating, as well as from the metallized smoky sapphire dial appearing at 12 o’clock.