A moon-bound astronaut, a shape-shifting Samurai and a pocket-sized Amazon scene lead Louis Vuitton’s 2025 high-watchmaking line-up.
Louis Vuitton’s La Fabrique du Temps opens 2025 with three animated showpieces—the Tambour Taiko Galactique, the Tambour Bushido Automata and the Escale en Amazonie pocket watch. Each manual-winding creation couples a long power reserve with minute-repeater chimes that cue a miniature theatre across the dial.
Louis Vuitton Tambour Taiko Galactique
The Taiko Galactique hides the LFT AU14.02 calibre—459 parts, 50 jewels and a 100-hour reserve—inside a 46.7 mm titanium and white-gold Tambour case whose crown sits at noon. A slide set with blue sapphires and topaz activates cathedral-gong strikes and seven automaton actions that mark the time on demand.
An astronaut raises an LV flag on a hand-engraved moon; a satellite, shooting stars and the Sun move in concert. The scene, rendered in paillonné, cloisonné, miniature and grisaille enamel, took more than 300 hours, and two diamonds glint among its stars. A blue rubber strap with an LV-pattern motif completes the watch.
Louis Vuitton Tambour Bushido Automata
The Bushido Automata adopts the LV 525 calibre, driving five dial animations, jumping hours, retrograde minutes and a 100-hour reserve. Its 46.8 mm pink-gold case carries engraved crown and pusher, framing a Samurai mask whose expression shifts at the press of a button.
A push lifts a yokai to reveal the hour on the helmet, sweeps a katana-shaped minute hand across 0-60, sharpens one eye and drops a jaw that spells “Bushido” in red script; a crimson sun tracks the reserve. The dial and case demanded about 140 hours of engraving, 120 hours of enamel work and 200 hours of red enamel across the flanks.
Louis Vuitton Escale en Amazonie Pocket Watch
The sole pocket watch in the trio, Escale en Amazonie, runs on the LFT AU14.03 calibre with minute repeater, tourbillon and seven automata. Its 555 components grant an eight-day reserve, the time appears on the back, and a 50 mm white-gold Escale case is ringed by sixty baguette stones in a green-to-yellow gradient.
Slide the repeater at six and a pirogue loaded with LV trunks drifts across the dial; trunks open to reveal Monogram flowers, parrots tilt their heads, a snake coils and a monkey swings toward a waterfall under a spinning compass star. Thirty-one enamel shades, 30 firings and 140 hours of gold engraving drive the 15 moving elements; a further 60 hours went into carving rainforest motifs around the case.
