Louis Vuitton’s LVMH Watch Week 2026 Novelties Bring Immeasurable Joy to Telling Time

Luxury’s ultimate tastemaker, Louis Vuitton has just unveiled nine novelties, including two playful table clocks, that transform the act of telling time into an evocative source of joy.

Unveiled at LVMH Watch Week 2026, the releases include six new references in the travel-inspired Escale collection (French for “stopover”), and one reference to the maison’s GPHG-winning Tambour line.

“This new chapter for Escale is aligned with the transformation we have been going through over the last four years,” said Jean Arnault, Director of Louis Vuitton Watches. “The challenge for us was to elevate historical icons like the Worldtime to our new craftsmanship standard and the difference is incredible. Details around the case, dial, movement finishing… all the details were carefully thought through. An added touch to this new Escale collection is the clever use of the ‘Twin Zone’ complication, which indicates time all around the world, effortlessly. A clever twist by Michel (Navas) and Enrico (Barbasini) on a decade old complication”.

Louis Vuitton’s ascent into the upper echelons of haute horlogerie is perhaps best exemplified by its 2011 acquisition of La Fabrique du Temps, which was founded by Navas and Barbasini, and persists as one of the industry’s most respected complications specialists, responsible for engineering the maison’s most ambitious movements to this day.

From lugs inspired by the brass brackets of Louis Vuitton trunks to hand-painted flags themed on the maison’s motifs, the exquisite details of these new timepieces embody the meticulousness for which Louis Vuitton is renowned.

Escale Worldtime

Since its emphatic debut at Baselworld 2014, the Escale Worldtime has soared to become a highly desired icon. Today, it returns not just as a 40mm platinum head-turner with hand-painted flags, but also as a flying tourbillon, both inspired by Louis Vuitton’s monogram canvas. To create the former, miniature painting experts devoted hours to coloring the tiny flags that encircle its grained blue center. This new iteration of the Louis Vuitton Escale Worldtime is powered by the brand new LFT VO12.01 caliber, and components like its hand, reference time zone indicator, serial number plate and oscillating weight are all crafted from 18k gold.

Escale Worldtime Flying Tourbillon

Also presented in a 40mm platinum case, the Escale Worldtime Flying Tourbillon is powered by the LFT VO5.01 movement, whose flying tourbillon counters gravity’s influence on chronometric precision. Encircling this balletic complication are hand-crafted flags realized through an exacting métier d’art process: each color is rendered in grand feu enamel, created by repeatedly firing a meticulously blended enamel powder at extremely high temperatures to achieve a luminous, perfectly even hue.

“The Worldtime has always been about motion, not just across time zones, but in how the watch feels alive,” says Navas. “Introducing the flying tourbillon at its center amplifies that energy. It gives the complication a visible heartbeat.”

Escale Twin Zone

The 40mm Escale Twin Zone is a new concept powered by the new in-house LFT VO 15.01 caliber. Available in platinum set with diamonds or in rose gold, these two novelties address cities that have a 30- or 45-minute time difference. A pair of opaque hands point to local time, while openworked hour and minute hands beneath indicate a second time zone, and can be hidden beneath the opaque hands.

“Functionality and architecture go hand in hand,” explains Matthieu Hegi, Artistic Director of La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. “The hands are mounted on a single axis to preserve the clean geometry of the dial, while the day/night indicator sits discreetly at the top of the globe. It’s a complication that respects the aesthetic codes of the Escale while quietly expanding its capabilities.”

The rose gold version without diamonds has a sunburst satin-finished dial, while the haute joaillerie platinum version has a case set with 170 baguette-cut diamonds, including three rows of invisibly set stones on the case band and a rose-cut diamond set in its crown, as well as 11 baguette diamonds embellishing its folding buckle.

Escale Minute Repeater

The jumping hour and retrograde minutes of the 40mm rose gold Escale Minute Repeater are complemented by a flammé guilloché dial that has been handcrafted using a traditional rose engine. Its hour aperture has been beveled and polished to enhance legibility, and its LFT SO 13.01 movement has been decorated with Côtes de Genève, beveling, anglage and snailing. As for its namesake complication, Louis Vuitton’s adept artisans carefully shaped, cut, polished and adjusted each minute repeater mechanism by hand to ensure clear and crisp chimes.

“Hiding the slide within the lug was a deliberate gesture,” explains Hegi. “It respects the silhouette of the Escale and makes the activation of the repeater an almost private act; the complication is revealed only to the wearer.”

Tambour Convergence Guilloché

At LVMH Watch Week 2025, Louis Vuitton debuted the first two Tambour Convergence timepieces, which tell the time using “dragging” hour and minute discs. Today, the maison welcomes a new addition to this collection, which has been decorated with two styles of guillochage.

Powered by the LFT MA01.01, which is the first movement fully designed and conceived by La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, this 37mm rose gold timepiece is inspired by the interior architecture of the Louis Vuitton family’s home in Asnières.

In its bid to cement its status as a horological metiers d’art powerhouse, Louis Vuitton has been painstakingly restoring antique machines from the 19^th and 20^th centuries. One such rose engine from 1850 was used to create the concentric waves of this timepiece, while a second machine was used to engrave the watch’s linear motifs. An undertaking as complicated as the Tambour Convergence Guilloché not only requires a sharp eye, but also a guillocheur’s experience and sensitivity, in order to navigate the case’s steps and curves.

Escale Tiger’s Eye

Following turquoise and malachite renditions of the Escale in 2025, the 40mm Escale Tiger’s Eye frames its precious stone dial within a yellow gold case. This warm palette, complemented by yellow gold hands and indices, along with a saffiano leather strap in savannah brown, is meant to evoke the maison’s regal trunks. Driven by the in-house LFT023 that previous Louis Vuitton timepieces have been equipped with, the Escale Tiger’s Eye is limited to a precious 30 examples.

Louis Vuitton Camionnette

A playful sequel to 2024’s Montgolfière Aéro hot air balloon table clock, the Louis Vuitton Camionnette table clock is a tip of the hat to the early 20^th century delivery trucks that connected Louis Vuitton’s Asnières workshops with its boutiques. Their locations have been painted on the sides of this truck, while the truck’s license plate bears the year of the maison’s founding.

Time is told on the hood by pad-printed rotating cylinders, and to wind them, one has to retrieve a winding key from the miniature trunk tucked away in the back of this truck.

18cm in height, 35.3cm in length, and driven by the L’Epée 1839 MV.7417/101 caliber, this delicately fashioned table clock also has a 15-example haute joaillerie variant that is set with 1,695 round-cut diamonds, one LV monogram star-cut diamond, 10 orange sapphires and 10 red sapphires, and also guillochéd with Louis Vuitton’s Damier motif.

“We wanted to honor the original appearance of this legendary vehicle, which tells the story of the earliest days of the House,” Hegi elaborates. “Executing the Damier pattern in guilloché is an exacting, meticulous art, a savoir-faire that we have mastered at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton. It gives even greater preciousness to this model’s aesthetics while recalling our watchmaking codes.”