A SHOW OF STRENGTH

PRESTIGE watch expert Lynette Koh picks the most scintillating releases from LVMH Watch Week 2025.

- LYNETTE KOH

Originally scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in January, LVMH Watch Week 2025 shifted instead to New York City and Paris following the Californian wildfires. Unfortunate circumstances aside, the first event on the horological event calendar continues to grow from strength to strength, with nine LVMH watchmaking brands taking part this year-including luxury powerhouses Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co making their debut. Here are our highlights of the novelties.

LOUIS VUITTON

TAMBOUR TAIKO SPIN TIME AND TAMBOUR TAIKO SPIN TIME AIR

Making its debut at LVMH Watch Week, luxury powerhouse Louis Vuitton continues to evolve its signatures. Uniting its LVMH Watch Week novelties is the Tambour case, a taiko drum-inspired case the brand introduced in 2002, and slimmed down significantly in 2023 with the 8.3mm-thin Tambour Automatic.

Now, Louis Vuitton refreshes a signature timepiece, the Tambour Spin Time from 2009, with the Tambour Taiko Spin Time range, featuring a redesigned case and new movements. Created by Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, the founders of La Fabrique du Temps—the movement manufacture acquired by Louis Vuitton in 2011—Spin Time is a jumping-hours display featuring four-sided hour cubes that rotate one by one.

The Tambour Taiko Spin Time 39.5mm is the starting point of the collection. Powered by the self-winding LFT ST13.01 calibre, the highly dimensional Spin Time display is housed in a white gold case 12.15mm thick. While not the sveltest, the case has been refined for a slimmer-looking profile; it begins curving inward near the bottom of the case middle, and tapers into a domed caseback. The addition of sculptural lugs also gives the new cases a sleeker look.