In 2025, Louis Vuitton once again redefines the art of timekeeping with a bold and boundary-breaking showcase of high watchmaking. From the spiritual legacy of the Japanese Samurai to the untamed wilderness of the Amazon, and onward into the cosmos, the Maison’s latest creations from La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton transcend both tradition and terrain. Each piece is a vivid story told through intricate automata, virtuoso complications, and the finest Métiers d’Art. These exceptional timepieces are not just instruments of precision—they are wearable works of art, testaments to Louis Vuitton’s uncompromising pursuit of innovation, craftsmanship, and imagination.
TAMBOUR BUSHIDO AUTOMATA
Following the award-winning Tambour Carpe Diem and then the Tambour Opera Automata, Louis Vuitton continues its daring journey of artistic horological expression – this time crossing over to Japan, and the powerful and rich world of the ancient Samurai.
In 2025, Louis Vuitton unveils the Tambour Bushido Automata, the third creation by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton that continues to push the boundaries of high watchmaking savoir-faire and exceptional métiers d’art. Paying homage to ancestral culture, arts and crafts – and narrated via a mechanical caliber that animates a change of expression on the dial – the story of the Tambour automata began in 2021 in Europe with the Tambour Carpe Diem.
A 21st-century automata timepiece featuring a surrealist snake-and-skull motif – a poetic but subversive take on the symbolism of the Vanitas. Winning the Audacity Prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, the piece was followed two years later by the Tambour Opera Automata, a creation that saw La Fabrique du Temps travel to China, inspired by the captivating “changing masks” art of Sichuan Opera’s Bian Lian.
ESCALES AUTOUR DU MONDE – ‘ESCALE EN AMAZONIE’ POCKET WATCH
Continuing its legacy of exceptional watchmaking savoir-faire and audacious creativity, Louis Vuitton travels to the lush landscapes of the Amazon rainforest – and unveils the most complicated watches to date.
A tribute to travel and exploration, the new Escale en Amazonie pocket watch pairs an incredible virtuoso automata and minute repeater with boundary-pushing Métiers d’Art. The Maison’s most complicated watch to date, the timepiece personifies the next chapter of extraordinary creations at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. Based in Geneva, this unique and fully integrated Manufacture brings together exceptional Haute Horlogerie expertise under one roof. This includes Fabrique des Boîtiers (case making), La Fabrique des Mouvements (movement component making), and La Fabrique des Arts (dial making and Métiers d’Art), each of which played a significant role in creating this exceptional timepiece.
The Manufacture now introduces the new Escale en Amazonie pocket watch – a unique piece beautifully infused with the Maison’s unique spirit of travel representing a stunning horological expression and culmination of Louis Vuitton’s in-house watchmaking excellence.
For Escales Autour du Monde’s debut pocket watch, the Maison heads to the Amazon rainforest – a land rich in lush vegetation and wildlife, boasting breathtaking views of waterfalls and rocky terrains. Unparalleled in natural beauty, the famed South American region has now inspired La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, which has imagined a miniature spectacle on the dial, activated by a slide piece at six o’clock. A long wooden pirogue, stacked with Louis Vuitton trunks, glides through luxuriant verdant foliage. The trunks then slowly begin to open, revealing golden LV Monogram flowers, and which catches the eye of playful, inquisitive wild animals: a pair of parrots, their heads and wings cocked in curiosity; a snake with its head and tail swinging enquiringly, as a monkey looks on, gripping an oversized leaf. Presiding over this scene at 12 o’clock is a sculpted gold rose compass, which spins to its own tune. Featuring seven animations, the dial comes alive with a total of 15 moving elements, each stirring to their own motion and pace – and highlighting the beauty of nature.
TAMBOUR TAIKO GALACTIQUE
After celebrating Europe and its vanities, China and the Bian-Lan Opera, Japan and Bushido, Louis Vuitton embarks on a new journey by propelling High Watchmaking into space.
For this interstellar odyssey, Louis Vuitton has created an exceptional watch, the Tambour Taiko Galactique a minute repeater with cathedral gongs and automata that combine the virtuosity of a unique mechanical caliber with the perfect mastery of several artistic crafts. Evolving in the space of audacity.
Going beyond earthly borders. Pushing the limits of adventure. Discovering new horizons. As early as 2009, Louis Vuitton celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the first moon landing: by bringing together three astronauts on one of the posters of the famous “A journey beyond“ campaign. In 2021, to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Monsieur Louis Vuitton, the House presented an extraordinary Tambour Jacquemart Minute Repeater with cathedral gongs, whose dial paid tribute to the theme of space odysseys.
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