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QA063, TAMBOUR GM WORLD TOUR

$2,000

A Louis Vuitton Tambour GM World Tour, ref. QA063, in stainless steel at 41mm.

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A Louis Vuitton Tambour GM World Tour, ref. QA063, in stainless steel at 41mm. The black dial is covered in vintage-style travel stickers, a red classic car and the LV initials, so it reads like the side of a trunk that has been everywhere. The Tambour case swells from the dial to the caseback like a drum, with the Louis Vuitton name engraved around its flank. Inside is a quartz movement. It is worn on Louis Vuitton's Damier Graphite canvas strap with the original Louis Vuitton buckle, and it comes with a Louis Vuitton travel pouch and travel box.

Louis Vuitton opened as a trunk maker in Paris in 1854, and the stickers on this dial borrow from the travel labels that once covered its customers' luggage. The Damier canvas on the strap first appeared in 1888 and remains one of the house's signatures. The Tambour followed in 2002 as Louis Vuitton's first major watch collection, named for the French word for drum. The World Tour editions carry the house's travel heritage straight onto the dial.

We sourced it because it is joyful in a category that rarely is. Every sticker on the dial is a small piece of artwork, and you keep finding new ones: a destination label here, a flash of red there, the LV initials tucked among them. The Damier Graphite strap ties it back to the trunks, so the whole watch feels like one idea carried all the way through. It even arrives with its travel pouch and box, which suits a watch about travel. Nothing else on the market looks like it. Curated with intent.