Louis Moinet 1816 Tourbillon Chronograph

The 1816 Tourbillon Chronograph costs $135,000 and Louis Moinet will make twelve of them. It is a titanium case at 40.6 mm wide and 15.1 mm thick, built around the LM114, a hand-wound caliber developed with the movement maker Concepto that combines a column-wheel monopusher chronograph with a flying tourbillon set off-center at 6 o'clock.

Fitting those two complications together is the actual achievement here, not the styling. A chronograph and a tourbillon both draw heavily on the mainspring, and starting or stopping the chronograph changes the torque reaching the tourbillon's balance, which can throw off its rate. Louis Moinet's answer is a double-barrel layout that delivers 96 hours of power reserve, enough slack to run both mechanisms without the chronograph starving the regulator.

The dial gives up one subdial to make room for the tourbillon cage, leaving a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock and running seconds at 9. The cage itself is coated in blue DLC, echoing the blued hands and the four blued screws on the dial, against a rhodium-plated surface finished in satin and bead-blasted sections. The case carries over the Directoire-style profile and fleur-de-lys crown of Louis Moinet's original 1816 chronograph design, with the bracelet integrated in satin-brushed and polished titanium.

The movement itself is not new to this watch. Louis Moinet has used the LM114 before, in its Impulsion Tourbillon Chronographs released in 2023 and 2025, so the novelty here is the case, dial and bracelet built around a proven caliber rather than an unproven one. Water resistance is rated to 50 meters, which is beside the point on a watch like this, and worth noting only because Louis Moinet bothers to print it.