High Watchmaking

With this striking, vanitas-inspired timepiece, Louis Vuitton has returned the jacquemart to its original functionality: with the push of a button, the automata reveal the time through a clever interplay of the dial’s miniature skull and snake while emitting Horace’s famous words “Carpe Diem”. Rich in symbolism, the Tambour Carpe Diem has multiple, highly sophisticated complications such as a jumping hour and retrograde minute, with enamel elements by Anita Porchet and engraving by Dick Steenman.

This new version of the Tambour Curve Flying Tourbillon expands upon the original with the addition of a GMT complication, allowing for a second time-zone display on the dial. With its flying tourbillon in the shape of Gaston-Louis Vuitton’s signature V, this contemporary timepiece is a true ode to the timeless art of travel.

The completely transparent, Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Sapphire is a true technical and artistic feat, making it the first of its kind in the history of watchmaking to earn the Poinçon de Genève seal. Revealing every detail of the calibre it encloses, the case is crafted from a block of synthetic sapphire thanks to La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton’s meticulous craftsmanship and innovative prowess.

Louis Vuitton’s playful Monogram-inspired mascot makes her watchmaking debut with two new designs: the Vivienne Bijou Secret, a high jewelry piece where her gold and diamond-set face plays hide and seek with the time, and the Vivienne Spin Time Air, a modern and innovative take on Louis Vuitton’s patented take on the Jumping Hour mechanism.

The Tambour Curve Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève is a futuristic, more technical interpretation of Louis Vuitton’s original Tambour watch. With an open construction and animated by a flying tourbillon escapement, this lightweight design is part of a new generation of boldly masculine watches.

The Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève makes an immediate impression with its theatrical mechanism showcased in Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Moon case. The flying tourbillon has a delicately open-worked carriage, giving the impression of extreme lightness.

The graphic strength of the Voyager Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève is achieved through a minimalist aesthetic and construction. Simple lines and open spaces define this watch, underscoring the technical prowess needed to execute such a design.

First unveiled in 2009, Louis Vuitton’s Spin Time movement created a whole new way of telling time. As a unique interpretation of the Jumping Hour mechanism, the Spin Time cubes provide an exclusive way of indicating the hour. This patented complication puts a playful spin on technical innovation and has become one of the Maison’s creative cornerstones.

Ten years after the pioneering debut of Spin Time, Louis Vuitton revealed an innovative version of the playful movement while remaining faithful to its unique concept. The Spin Time Air calibre creates a magical effect displaying the time with cubes appearing to float in mid-air.

This Spin Time timepiece integrates a Flying Tourbillon at its centre that completes its rotation in one minute. In a technical and aesthetic tour de force, the combination of the Spin Time display mechanism with a central Flying Tourbillon is a first in watchmaking history.

Bringing together two worlds of truly modern design and time-honed craftsmanship, this exceptional timepiece places two icons of high watchmaking at centre stage: a Flying Tourbillon escapement and a striking mechanism known as a Minute Repeater.

This unique movement marks a decisive step forward in the world of high watchmaking through adaptation of the principle of the mysterious movement, arranged in a vertical alignment and combined with a flying tourbillon escapement. Two stylistic effects distinguish this lightweight creation: the absence of a connection between the winding crown and the double barrel, and the Monogram Flower adorning the Flying Tourbillon, which performs a complete rotation in 60 seconds.

Pushing the boundaries of creativity in watchmaking further, Louis Vuitton combined two elegant complications in this timepiece: the Minute Repeater and Worldtime feature. At the eight o’clock position, the discreet pink gold horn serves as slider to activate the Minute Repeater mechanism, melodiously chiming the time of the watch owner’s original time-zone, no matter where in the world he has travelled.

The one-of-a-kind Escale Worldtime draws inspiration from Louis Vuitton’s legendary trunks to reinvent a watch designed for seasoned travelers. A simple glance at a city’s initials indicates the hour in that time zone, while the minutes are displayed beneath the yellow arrow pointing to the time in the reference city. With its dial painted in miniature entirely by hand, it takes the master craftsman 40 hours to complete each dial in a dedicated workshop at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton.

For the 2019 edition of Only Watch, a biennial charity auction of exceptional watches to benefit the Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies (AMM), Louis Vuitton donated a bold, one-of-a-kind Escale Spin Time watch featuring outstanding creativity and savoir-faire with a dial inspired by tattoo art.