The most astute among you will immediately make the connection: yes, it is indeed a cousin of the Carpe Diem, the jacquemart watch presented by Louis Vuitton’s Swiss manufacturer La Fabrique du temps in 2021 and which won the Prix de l’Audace at the GPHG, the watchmaking Oscars. What does this new edition tell us? In the land of Bian Lian, the Sichuan theatre cultivates a very particular art, one that borders on prestidigitation: face-changing. In a split of a second, the artists, with astonishing agility, change the mask that covers their face to permanently display new expressions, without us really noticing. To pay tribute to this performance, the Manufacture du Temps has developed this watchmaking automaton that produces no less than five animations at the touch of a button located at two o’clock. An exercise in style and a technical feat that leaves us breathless….