Tiger’s eye meets yellow gold in Louis Vuitton’s latest Escale, a limited-edition watch where shifting light, texture and craft take center stage
Louis Vuitton continues to explore the dialogue between natural materials and high horology with the Escale Tiger’s Eye, a limited-edition 40mm watch where tiger’s eye and 18-carat yellow gold create a luminous, shifting spectacle. Limited to just 30 pieces, this showpiece marks the first time yellow gold has appeared in the Escale collection.
The maison’s signature “Art of Travel” is evoked through a monolithic case ring of tiger’s eye that frames a matching stone dial. Polished gold surfaces and mineral sheen create a visual warmth that shifts with the light, revealing a luminous dialogue between raw earth and precious metal.
Beneath the surface, the chronometer-certified Calibre LFT023, complete with a 22-carat rose gold micro-rotor, ensures the mechanical performance matches the watch’s aesthetic brilliance. Finished with a Savannah brown saffiano leather strap, the Escale Tiger’s Eye is a wearable landscape of nature’s spontaneous artistry and human savoir-faire, proving that Louis Vuitton’s horological journey is only becoming more adventurous.
STRAP
The leather’s texture echoes the stone’s linear structure, extending the palette of warm earthy tones across the watch
BEZEL
The bezel, lugs, caseback and crown are in yellow gold, marking the first use of this material in the Escale collection
