Tambour: drum n. Lateral wall of a barrel or other similar hollow, cylindrical part.
Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology, G-A. Berner.

This timepiece has become an icon. Tambour, launched in 2002, a watch by Louis Vuitton, a name linked with craftsmanship, embodied in the watchmaking workshops of La Chaux-de-Fonds which hold all the promises of the future.

LA CHAUX DE FONDS

With its first workshop employing a team of 30, established in 2002 at La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Jura, Louis Vuitton marked a new chapter in its development....