Louis Vuitton is a relative latecomer to the world of watches, but rather than going down the predictable fashion route it has rapidly become a serious player in the field of high complications with a series of impressively technical timepieces already under its belt.
For example, the Tambour Spin Time is a unique way of telling the time. There is only a minute hand, not an hour hand, but the dial consists of 12 apertures beneath cubes, which rotate in turn to show the appropriate hour. Each cube has two numbers - AM and PM - so it is a true 24-hour watch. When the hour is showing on the appropriate cube, the other eleven remain blank, apart from an engraving of the Vuitton V, although the yellow GMT hand allows the watch to display a second time zone.
The movement itself is by ETA, but the rotating mechanism was developed in-house at the Vuitton workshop in Chaux-de-Fonds - high in the Jura Mountains that Louis called home - so in future expect the company to move further in developing complicated mechanisms, if not its own movements.
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