A building with a poetic name - literally 'the time factory' - but also a courageous place of experimentation, innovation and creativity.
From the windows of the Fabrique du Temps, the factory near Geneva where Louis Vuitton watches are made, you can see the Jura mountains of eastern France: the same place where the founder was born two centuries ago, on 4 August 1821. Louis Vuitton.
This place, where in 2014 the brand brought together all the professional skills for the production of its watches, is a concentration of references to the history of the French Maison and his passion for travel, from which it all began. A combination of the knowledge of the oldest Swiss tradition and the most modern innovations, which is also one of the main features of Louis Vuitton watchmaking, inaugurated in 2002 with the birth of the first Tambour watch.
La Fabrique du Temps: where Louis Vuitton watches are made
Led by Maîtres Horlogers Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini, the Louis Vuitton manufacture is housed in a building with modern architecture. organised in bright rooms furnished with lots of wood, lots of white and hints of colour.
Starting with the reception area, which is particularly notable for the presence of several scenic pieces from the Objets Nomades collection, the line of travel-inspired furniture and objects created in collaboration with world-famous designers.
Spacious and well-organised workshops are used to make the clocks, designed with large windows equipped with roller shutter systems that allow the light to be adjusted to the craftsmen's needs.
Everything happens in-house: from the research and development phase to the validation of prototypes, from the assembly of movements to the production of dials, also facilitated by the acquisition of (in 2012) of the Swiss company Léman Cadran and the application of numerous artistic techniques used to decorate the dials of haute horlogerie models.
