For a decade, Louis Vuitton has been quietly assembling the infrastructure of a serious watchmaker. The 2011 acquisition of La Fabrique du Temps in Meyrin gave it a Geneva manufacture. A minute repeater is the one complication that cannot be faked, mass-produced, or reduced to a marketing exercise. It is also, perhaps not coincidentally, the card Louis Vuitton has chosen to play at LVMH Watch Week 2026.