Bespoke Minute Repeater by Louis Vuitton

Space comes to life on a watch dial.

Louis Vuitton brings together the best to create the kind of watches that even make disciples of watch manufacturers with centuries of history take LV seriously. La Fabrique du Temps worked on the movement for the new Louis Vuitton Tambour Jacquemart Minute Repeater 200 Years, a workshop Louis Vuitton acquired in 2011.

The workshop was established in 2007 by Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, both former stakeholders in BNB Concept, which was famous for creating complicated calibers. Navas and Barbasini are the names behind many movements.

 Jacob & Co. Cyclone Tourbillon, Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Ballerine Enchantée, Speake-Marin Renaissance Tourbillon Minute Repeater, Ralph Lauren's first tourbillon and numerous movements created for Laurent Ferrier.

The inventors at La Fabrique du Temps also contributed to the creation of innovative movements which enabled Louis Vuitton to consolidate its position on the watchmaking scene.

Rotating cubes to indicate the hours developed for LV's Spin Time, the chronograph Tambour Twin Chrono, the minute repeating Tambour Répétition Minutes and the ultimate movement for Tambour Carpe Diem, which was awarded the Audacity Prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) in 2021.

The latest creation and result of two years' worth of development was unveiled this year: the manually wound LV200 movement with a 100-hour power reserve, made for the model Louis Vuitton Tambour Jacquemart Minute Repeater 200 Years. The traditional central hands are joined by a minute repeater and jacquemarts — moving elements on the dial.

Louis Vuitton acquired the watch dial manufacturer Léman Cadran five months after La Fabrique du Temps, yet the responsibility of creating this particular novelty's dial was assigned to Anita Porchet.

Her independent workshop is the place where the most outstanding watch-dial enamel paintings have been created for a variety of brands, including the likes of Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Hermès and Chanel. The stars, saturn and a spaceship with a hatch that opens and closes can all be set in motion whenever the watch owner wishes.

They were sculpted by the engraver Dick Steenman, who also worked with Louis Vuitton on the project Tambour Carpe Diem. The watch has been given a titanium case measuring 46.8 mm in diameter with the lugs and bezel in white gold and engraved with letters of Louis Vuitton.