Louis Vuitton for Only Watch

 Coming together for a worthy cause

The world may be your oyster, but for Louis Vuitton, the world is also a dance floor. For this year’s Only Watch Auction, the French luxury house has collaborated with Paul Pettavino — son of Only Watch founder Luc Pettavino — to produce a singular timepiece that places world cities on a patterned-tile dance floor.

Named quite aptly The World Is A Dancefloor, the timepiece has been adapted from the colourful Louis Vuitton Escale Worldtime, and replaces monogram-inspired emblems with square, patterned tiles. The psychedelic theme is carried through from dial to strap. The tiles have been hand-painted using a miniature painting technique, while the strap features a contrasting blue alligator skin and yellow calfskin lining on the reverse.

Aesthetics aside, the watch features a “hands-free” world-time movement created by La Fabrique du Temps. A yellow hand sits still at 12 o’clock, while two discs telling the hours and minutes rotate around it. A pull and scroll of the crown adjusts the city wheel accordingly.

The timepiece is presented in one of Louis Vuitton’s signature trunks in graphite, with the hand-painted motif adorning the cover.

The Only Watch Auction will take place on 7 November this year. Proceeds will go towards the research of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, an illness that afflicts the elder Pettavino, and that sparked off the creation of Only Watch.

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