Launch Alert: Deep Time, Louis Vuitton’s Ode To Treasures From The Past

The masterpiece Gondwana necklace featuring no-oil Colombian emeralds is expressed in platinum. The seven-row stunner resonates the earth’s circular movement, punctuated by Louis Vuitton’s signature V motif, which takes shape via seven exceptional emeralds that dovetail into a V formation, culminating in an exquisite 4.51-carat emerald with a rare blue hue. The structured necklace also features 259 custom-cut diamonds.

Louis Vuitton’s stunning Deep Time high jewellery collection celebrates the enduring geological legacy that lies at the core of the jewellery line. With the captivating diamonds and gemstones, this collection embarks on an extraordinary odyssey, tracing the journey of the planet’s inception to the creation of life.

Louis Vuitton (LV) pays homage to the timeless beauty of bygone eras with its remarkable Deep Time collection. This extraordinary jewellery line serves as a testament to the enduring allure of geological treasures, presenting a captivating fusion of heritage and contemporary design. Each piece in the collection exudes a sense of timeless elegance, inviting wearers to embark on a journey and discover the everlasting charm of the past.

This is Louis Vuitton’s largest High Jewelry collection to date, featuring over 170 unique pieces – including 95 in the first chapter alone – and a record number of precious stones.

The showstopper references the planet’s tectonic activities and events such as tsunamis and a colossal wave that cools the earth, to reassemble all the elements back to life. The high collar Wave necklace captures the magnetic power of a surging wave that curls and drops into the shape of an arrow. Filled with diamonds, the distinct V shape is designed by alternating small and large bands of pave and baguette stones, which meet to hold a flawless 6.19-carat LV Monogram in flower-cut diamond that suspends an oval 40.80-carat sapphire from Sri Lanka.

“At Louis Vuitton we are as ever adventurers, travelling to extraordinary, unexpected places,” says Francesca Amfitheatrof, LV’s Creative Director. “Deep Time will transport you deeply into the past, to a time and place that is so remote and perhaps even difficult to comprehend. But at the same time, the stones – these treasures that span millennia – will bring you right there, to the beginning of the planet and into a history of the world and its mystical geological legacy.”

Deep Time is conceptualised through two themes – geology and life – and encompasses a total of 16 themes, 13 of which are presented in the collection’s debut. Each one features masterfully executed jewels that capture this epic tale of transformation, life and interconnectedness.

Geology charts Earth’s extraordinary evolution, starting with Gondwana, one of two supercontinent landmasses that marked our planet’s formation.

Geology’s apocalyptic evolutions and seismic disruptions give way to life. Depicting the thought is the Origin, a pure white jewellery suite crafted in white gold and diamonds. Themed around a single cell that grows and multiplies, the movement and propulsion of life is captured in the necklace of converging strands of diamonds, which twist into a subtle V signature and chevron patterns to encircle a 10.21-carat D flawless brilliant-cut diamond, one of Deep Time’s most important stones.

Featuring an exclusive selection of the rarest, no-oil Colombian emeralds, Gondwana is followed by various apocalyptic evolutions, expressed through the themes of Volcano, Wave and Rupture, whose explosive powers come to life via the Maison’s distinct design language. There is the signature Louis Vuitton V, graphic and strong, that galvanises the one-of-a kind jewels, as custom-cut LV stones radiate with innate power. The final chapter Drift embodies the sun and sea with a magnificent pairing of aquamarines and yellow sapphires – and makes way for Deep Time’s second act.

Life unveils a mesmerizing universe filled with intricate beauty and the dynamic interplay between organic forms and artistic designs. Louis Vuitton’s Deep Time collection captures this essence with stunning jewellery crafted across eight captivating themes. From Origin and Fossils to Seeds and Flowers, each theme weaves a seductive tapestry of textures, layers, and enchanting gemstones. Moreover, these jewels are thoughtfully designed to offer versatility, allowing them to be worn in various ways—an enduring principle championed by Amfitheatrof for the past five years.

Rupture is the result of hundreds of millions of years of tectonic plate movement and signals the separation of the supercontinent. The daring and sporty neck piece showcases a trilogy of unusual gems – a riviera of 33 brilliant-cut zircons, 15 oval-cut opals of 32.77 carats and a triangle-cut yellow sapphire of 13.81-carats.

“We have this incredible ambition to find the most beautiful stones, which in Deep Time are all connected to a theme, whether formed from lava, hail from different continents or symbolise an idea,” says Amfitheatrof. “Deep time is a celebration of the past, but also the beauty of nature and the incredible fragility of life.”