LVMH Watch Week 2026: Louis Vuitton Launches New Tambour Convergence Guilloché

The watches in Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Convergence collection (French tambour = drum) feature a guichet time display, i.e. small, framed windows in the dial through which the hours and minutes are displayed. This makes them eye-catching and at the same time gives the brand’s designers and craftsmen plenty of scope for creativity.

While this was used in last year’s premiere models with highly polished rose gold and spectacularly set with 795 diamonds in the platinum version, the new Tambour Convergence Guilloché in rose gold relies on the traditional technique of guilloché, from which it takes its name. It is manufactured, assembled and finished at the Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton watchmaking workshop, which was founded in 2011.

Double eye-catcher: dial and case

The Tambour Convergence Guilloché offers a double eye-catcher on its upper side. Firstly, through the special shape of the time display. The curved openings – guichets – display the hours and minutes under a slightly domed sapphire crystal, with the hour disc rotating in the upper window and the minute disc in the lower window. Both are made of brass plates with a 4N electroplated finish. A diamond-shaped marker between the two openings allows for intuitive reading.

The rose gold cover on the front of the watch is a sophisticated competitor when it comes to catching the eye. In a complex handcrafting process, the artisans at the Louis Vuitton Manufacture have guilloché rays of light emanating from the time display at 12 o’clock into the precious metal, complemented by a wave-shaped ring. To achieve this visually and haptically fascinating effect, machines from the mid-19th and early 20th centuries were used, which were restored over several months at the Fabrique des Arts, where Louis Vuitton pools its expertise in the field of craftsmanship.

A major challenge for the guillocheurs was the curvature of the front of the 37-millimetre case. Pressure and cutting depth must be constantly adjusted to achieve a consistently precise engraving depth. The process takes 16 hours per dial.

The movement

Precision on the extraordinary dial of the Tambour Convergence Guilloché is ensured by the LFT MA01.01 manufacture movement with automatic winding. It oscillates at a frequency of 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) and offers a 45-hour power reserve.

The sapphire crystal case back reveals sandblasted bridges with microblasted edges, the V-shaped periphery of the rose gold rotor, polished chamfers and transparent jewels. The LFT MA01.01, consisting of 201 components, is the first calibre to be manufactured entirely in the brand’s workshops. It made its debut in last year’s Tambour Convergence models.

Price & Availability

The Tambour Convergence Guilloché, worn on a calfskin strap, is available to order now and costs 58,500 euro.

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