Louis Vuitton’s Tambour watch family marks a new chapter with the Tambour Taiko Spin Time, a collection of haute horlogerie timepieces endowed with a reinvented version of LV’s signature three-dimensional jumping hours complication.

First conceived in 2007 by La Fabrique du Temps, the Spin Time drew inspiration from the flip-board timetables of travel hubs, poetically linking Louis Vuitton’s heritage as a purveyor of luxurious travel goods. This novel time display, with its rotating cubes, established Louis Vuitton as a creative force in high watchmaking when it debuted in 2009.

Now, the Spin Time complication enters a new epoch, its cosmic cubes orbiting within the contemporary Tambour Taiko case. The avant-garde Spin Time mechanism has been re-engineered; its cubes subtly curved like spacetime itself. Powered by a quartet of new manufacture calibres, the Spin Time is propelled into the future while still evoking LV’s rich past.

With integrated lugs and refined lines, the Tambour Taiko case is a sculptural work of horological art. Its mirrored bevels and frosted hollows showcase Louis Vuitton’s mastery of casemaking. This new vessel for the Spin Time is fittingly named after the taiko drums that provide the rhythmic heartbeat of ceremonial occasions.

From the intricate craftsmanship of the case to the cosmic choreography of the cubes, the Tambour Taiko Spin Time collection demonstrates Louis Vuitton’s continuous evolution as a manufacture. Just as the Spin Time first set LV’s watchmaking in motion, this new generation now sets the tempo for the future.

The Louis Vuitton Tambour Taiko Spin Time collection is limited to 500 pieces across several variants. Prices range from $72,500 to $172,000.