Louis Vuitton Tambour Carpe Diem juxtaposes the beauty of life with the inevitability of death on a miniature automaton with extraordinary craftsmanship.
Louis Vuitton had already made up to the hearts of watch enthusiasts at the Watches and Wonders Fair with the Tambour Street Diver, Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon âPoinçon de GenĂšveâ Sapphire and the breathtaking Tambour Curve GMT Flying Tourbillon series. As if all that were not enough, Tambour Carpe Diem also charm watch and art enthusiasts, from designers to historians, from fashion designers to architects, from artisans to paintersâŠ
It is a fact that high-end fashion brands distance many brands in creativity. When it comes to a world giant like Louis Vuitton, so to speak, an âoverâ brand, things come to a completely different point.
As is known, skull is a popular figure that is widely used in fashion and art. Like the phrase âMemento Moriâ which means âremember deathâ in Latin, it is a symbol that emphasizes that life is temporary, and it appears everywhere. A similar approach is seen in the phrase âcarpe diemâ, which means âpluck the dayâ, taken from the poem of the Roman poet Horatius. The line of the famous poem that starts with âcarpe diemâ continues: âquam minimum credula posteroâ, that is, âput extraordinarily little trust in tomorrowâ.  âLife is short / Birds are flyingâ in Cemal SĂŒreyaâs poem âKısaâ , he seems to have translated this poem as short as possible.
The skull figure has been used in many watches since the 15th century because of its symbolic meaning regarding time. Some most famous and successful examples: and . There are some brands such as and that has different approach to the subject each time. Â
