may be more well-known for its high fashion than its high horology, but it has been designing and debuting ambitious timepieces with impressive frequency for over a decade. Ever since the maison’s 2011 acquisition of La Fabrique du Temps—the facility founded by veteran watchmakers Enrico Barbasini and Michel Navas—it has maintained a dizzying pace of innovation, creating complicated masterworks from minute repeaters to automatons, some of which have claimed prestigious awards at the .

But Louis Vuitton is by no means new to watchmaking; in fact, it has been producing timepieces since the late 1980s. In partnership with Italian designer and architect Gae Aulenti—who transformed Paris’s Gare d’Orsay train station into the Musée d’Orsay—it released the LV I and LV II in 1988. These reference

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