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A Passion for Automatons Louis Vuitton Sets New Standards with Three Exceptional Creations

12 May 2025

Under the leadership of co-founders Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, Louis Vuitton's La Fabrique du Temps is steadily establishing itself as a serious contender in the realm of haute horlogerie despite being little more than a decade old. Today, the manufacture not only produces its own movements, but also undertakes intricate and rare decorative techniques, as well as crafting its own cases creations that operate at the highest levels of mechanical watchmaking. With three new timepieces, Louis Vuitton once again demonstrates its watchmaking savoir-faire, reinterpreting the historical complication of the automaton in a thoroughly contemporary design language. Tambour Bushido Automata, Escale en Amazonie and Tambour Taiko GalactiqueThe Tambour Bushido Automata, Escale en Amazonie, and Tambour Taiko Galactique combine mechanical dial animation with fine engraving and elaborate enamelling to create vivid, kinetic scenes. Of particular note is the Escale en Amazonie pocket watch equipped with a minute repeater, tourbillon, and 15 moving elements, it features the most complex movement La Fabrique du Temps has produced to date. Here is a closer look at the three automaton watches.The co-founders of Louis Vuitton's La Fabrique du Temps: Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini..................