Tambour Convergence

The Louis Vuitton Tambour Convergence embodies the latest evolution of the House’s fine watchmaking expertise. This creation seamlessly merges the movement and the case into a harmonious dialogue, locating the extraordinary in the everyday. It is an homage to the montres à guichet from a bygone era, reinterpreted with the contemporary elegance that distinguishes every Tambour creation.

The timepiece has been conceived and crafted in the aesthetic language that unifies the Louis Vuitton ateliers in Geneva, La Fabrique du temps Louis Vuitton. The name of the collection is a reference to this fusion of in-house mastery at Louis Vuitton and also represents the distinctive time display of the Tambour Convergence. A dragging indication of hours and minutes, read at the conjunction of two rotating discs with a platinum lozenge marker, the point of convergence, emphasizes the precise yet fleeting nature of a moment in time, like sunlight breaking through the gilded edges of clouds.

The precious plate, which forms the decorative focus of the watch and frames the time display, is set with 795 diamonds using a technique known as snow-setting, where stones of differing sizes are placed so closely and minutely that their settings cannot be discerned. Snow-setting must be done by hand, by a highly experienced gem-setter who is able to combine stones of various sizes in such a way that the final effect is of one seamless glittering surface. Featuring stones in a range of seven sizes, the platinum Tambour Convergence requires 32 hours of meticulous work to complete.

Inside the case beats the Calibre LFT MA01.01 with 45 hours of power reserve, a horological première for the Maison — a self-winding movement produced by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton.