For three glorious days in January, Milan played host to the seventh edition of LVMH Watch Week, which kickstarted the horological year with nine LVMH Group Maisons presenting their latest watchmaking creations. Showcasing technical ambitions alongside creative marvels, the event reaffirmed the Group’s prowess in positioning watchmaking at the intersection of innovation, heritage, and decorative artistry.
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Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Convergence Guilloché, for example, replaces traditional timetelling hands with rotating discs that reveal time through an arched guichet at the 12 o’clock position. Produced entirely at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, the 37mm watch is powered by the in-house Calibre LFT MA01.01—the first self-winding movement to be fully designed and conceived by the manufacture. It reflects the House’s growing confidence in shaping both mechanics and aesthetics: Hand-turned guilloché radiates across the watch’s rose gold surface, adorning it in rippling waves and sunburst rays that have been executed on restored antique machines from the mid-19th century and early 20th century. The results are a timepiece that is less about ostentatious display as it is about intimate appreciation.
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Photo: Courtesy of Tiffany & Co.
At Tiffany & Co., it’s the Sixteen Stone Mother-of- Pearl watch that catches the eye. Inspired by Jean Schlumberger’s iconic motif of the same name, the watch pairs a luminous mother-of-pearl centre with a free rotating ring of gold cross-stitches and diamonds that swirls playfully with the wrist’s every move. The construction demanded hours of meticulous casting, mounting, and setting, while a snow-set white gold case of over 400 diamonds reinforces Tiffany’s expertise in gemsetting and craftsmanship.
Then, there’s Bvlgari’s Lvcea Notte di Luce, which reaffirms how feminine expression and mechanical sophistication go hand in hand beautifully. Created with master Urushi artisan Yasuhiro Asai, the dial is the result of ancestral Japanese lacquer techniques where black lacquer is polished and painstakenly inlaid with mother-of-pearl fragments. Each dial requires roughly 60 days to complete, ensuring no two pieces are identical.
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Photo: Courtesy of Bvlgari