This summer season, the brand new Louis Vuitton Tambour 40mm redefined the model’s watchmaking imaginative and prescient, its launch timed to observe Pharrell’s celebrated debut as creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear.
The brand new Louis Vuitton Tambour 40mm
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Advertising and watch director Jean Arnault has dynamically reimagined the Tambour form for the watch’s twenty first anniversary. He tells us: ‘After 20 years of audacious watchmaking primarily based on the Tambour, Louis Vuitton is elevating its watch supply.’
The 40mm Tambour is an in-house design from the manufacture La Fabrique Du Temps, and is each a full reset of the LV design language and the bottom level of a extra curated vary. Arnault provides: ‘With this launch, we search to open a brand new chapter within the historical past of the maison’s watchmaking by making a watch with robust horological credentials, however identifiably Vuitton.’
Key model particulars are recognisable however distilled into a contemporary, lugless design. The drum form is pebble-smooth metal, with the model lettering encircling the bezel. Consolation is essential with its 9.7mm thickness, and a hanging bracelet.
La Fabrique du Temps has given us grail items just like the Tambour Curve Flying Tourbillon, however that is elevated on a regular basis put on, with a contemporary, stepped two-tone dial that makes it stand out. The Tambour’s hand-finished coronary heart is the chronometer-certified LFT023. This calibre is the primary proprietary computerized three-hand motion from Louis Vuitton, designed at the side of motion specialist Le Cercle des Horlogers.
The extraordinary linear craftsmanship below the sapphire case-back is a selected spotlight, as is the stable 22ct gold micro-rotor, which might be seen with a valuable metallic model showing later in 2023.