Louis Vuitton has been making some truly mind-bending watches for over a decade, pushing the limits of craft and complication in order to shake their reputation as a mere ‘fashion watch’ brand.
Building on these efforts, it was last year when the reimagined Louis Vuitton Tambour launched that the broader watch-collecting community started to pay serious attention and in 2025, the French-founded fashion house has released some of its best watches to date at LVMH Watch Week 2025.
At the heart of Louis Vuitton’s watchmaking is the La Fabrique du Temps workshop, which the brand acquired back in 2011. While Louis Vuitton has produced its complicated timepieces here for many years, the brand announced last year that it would also become the home of Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth —brands LVMH acquired during its purchase of Bulgari, also in 2011.
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Today, the La Fabrique du Temps workshop creates timepieces for all three brands and this week — on the occasion of LVMH Watch Week 2025 — we finally get to see what they’ve been working on.
With two standout collections from Louis Vuitton and a watch apiece from Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into.
Louis Vuitton Tambour Convergence
Arriving in two different variations, the Louis Vuitton Tambour Convergence is one for the vintage watch collectors of the world.
Featuring a time display at 12 o’clock that communicates hours and minutes using two rotating discs, the “digital” display nods to similar timepieces produced by many watchmakers in the early part of the 20th century.
Featuring a 37mm case that measures a remarkably slender 8mm front to back, it’s available in either solid rose gold or diamond-set platinum. Both cases feature carefully considered details such as polished top surfaces and satin-brushed flanks, while the outer surface of the lugs are scalloped with the concave section finished with a sandblasted technique.
Visible through the exhibition caseback is the La Fabrique du Temps in-house automatic Caliber LFT MA01.01, which comprises 201 components, and is wound by a pink gold oscillating weight that delivers 45 hours of power reserve when fully wound.
Both watches arrive on high-quality calf leather straps (this is Louis Vuitton we’re talking about, after all) which are secured with pin buckles made from matching precious metals.
Louis Vuitton Tambour Taiko Spin Time
The Tambour Spin Time has long been a shining example of the complexity Louis Vuitton’s watchmakers are capable of and this year the collection arrives with another six new references.
Dubbed the Taiko Spin Time collection, the hours on these watches are displayed via 12 rotating cubes around the dial and the minutes by a centrally mounted hand.
Of the six references, there’s a time-only example (also available with diamonds); a transparent time-only model (also available with diamonds); a world timer; and a flying tourbillon. The standard time-only references (if you can use that word for such complex mechanisms) feature 39.5mm cases that measure 12.15mm thick, while the other four references have the same slightly larger case that measures 42.5mm in diameter and 12.45mm in thickness. All are cased in solid white gold.
Simply put, they are all mechanical works of art, variously featuring perfectly set baguette-cut diamonds, hawk eye hard stone dial centres, and the kind of time display you can show to anybody wondering why mechanical watchmaking is “still a thing” in 2025.
It’s a concept we’ve seen from Louis Vuitton before — in finer form than ever at LVMH Watch Week 2025.
Daniel Roth Extra Plat Souscription
As a watchmaker, Daniel Roth was only relaunched in 2023 with the return of the Tourbillon Souscription in yellow gold, followed by another version in rose gold last year.
In 2025, the offering is a little more straightforward with the debut of the Daniel Roth Extra Plat Souscription: paying tribute to the original version from the 1990s, when Roth was still at the helm of his eponymous brand.
As you might have guessed, its name references the ultra-thin dress watches that Roth himself adored so much, with the case of this example measuring 35.5mm wide, 38.6mm long, and 7.7mm thick.
Beyond the compact proportions of the case, the dial is undeniably eye-catching, crafted from the same yellow gold as the case, engraved with an engine-turned Clou de Paris pattern, and paired nicely with traditionally styled heat-blued arrow hands.
Powered by the ultra-thin manually wound Caliber DR002 (just 3.1mm thick), it offers an impressive 70 hours of power reserve. The Daniel Roth Extra Plat Souscription arrives as a limited edition of 20 pieces.
Gerald Genta Oursin Fire Opal
The final watch to leave La Fabrique du Temps for LVMH Watch Week 2025 is the Gerald Genta Oursin Fire Opal — originally the fourth piece in the Gentissima Oursin collection that made its debut in 1994.
An extravagant example of Genta’s creativity and boldness in design (the same man who created the Patek Philippe Nautilus and Audemars Piguet Royal Oak), it features a 36.5mm yellow gold 3N case with a total of 137 fire opal gems individually screwed into it.
The dial is crafted from an orange cornelian, punctuated by yellow gold 3N hour markers and hands, which combine for an unmissable presence on the wrist.
Powered by the GG-005 Zenith Elite calibre, it delivers 50 hours of power reserve and will go on sale in May 2025.
