Louis Vuitton x UNICEF Unity Time Object Clock
Louis Vuitton's 10-year partnership with UNICEF needed a better marker than a press release, so the house built a clock shaped like a soccer ball, timed to land nine days before the World Cup kicks off across North America. La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton and Swiss clockmaker L'Épée 1839 developed the movement together: a manual-winding caliber with an 8-day power reserve, wound with a golden steel key, reading the time through two rotating cylinders set with 144 white diamonds for the hours and 120 treated black diamonds for the minutes. The skeletonized steel structure draws its geometry from the interlocked pentagons and hexagons of a soccer ball, with the same golden brackets, studs, and corner protectors found on Louis Vuitton trunks since the 1860s binding the movement in place. At roughly 6 inches in diameter, about half a soccer ball, it arrives in a trophy-style trunk handcrafted at the Asnières atelier, the workshop where the house has made its rarest pieces for over a century. One exists. The full hammer price goes to UNICEF.
