LVMH Watch Week 2026: Daniel Roth Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton Marks A Redundant Revolution

The Daniel Roth Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton isn’t another extension of a revived name, it is the moment the brand stops quoting its own history and begins to write it anew. Presented at LVMH Watch Week 2026, this openworked Extra Plat takes one of Daniel Roth’s most restrained, classical designs and subjects it to a radical act of transparency - without disturbing the watchmaker’s original sense of proportion, geometry, and discretion.

While the Extra Plat has long embodied Daniel Roth’s ideal of “simple yet perfectly executed watchmaking,” it was never skeletonised in the founder’s own era. That fact makes this rose-gold openworking not a reissue, but a considered evolution of a foundational reference, conceived in what the Maison pointedly calls the spirit of La Montre Objet d’Art.​

The Extra Plat, Revisited

For Daniel Roth, thinness was a complication in its own right, his second favorite after the tourbillon, because of the technical discipline required to execute a truly ultra‑slim movement properly. The original Extra Plat, with its double‑ellipse case and guilloché dial, became a pillar of the brand’s reputation: quiet, balanced, and rigorously proportioned.

In the early 1990s, skeletonization appeared in the Daniel Roth catalogue only in vanishingly small quantities, as technical exercises meant to showcase open volumes, slim architecture and hand‑finished detail. Those pieces were built around the same aesthetic vocabulary: constrained geometry, strong architectural logic, now pushed further in the Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton, which preserves the classical 38.6 x 35.5 mm double‑ellipse and 6.9 mm thickness while transforming the dial into a window on the movement’s structure.​

Double‑Ellipse, Now In Full View

The Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton begins where the standard Extra Plat ends: at the boundary between dial and caliber. The double‑ellipse case in 18k 5N rose gold maintains its familiar proportions: 38.6 mm in length, 35.5 mm in width, and just 6.9 mm thick, framing a flat, anti‑reflective sapphire crystal above and a sapphire caseback below.

Without a conventional dial, the geometry of the case becomes even more apparent, anchoring an otherwise ethereal object in something graphically precise. Blued‑steel hands float over a lattice of bridges and plates that follow the contours of the double‑ellipse, underscoring that this is a shaped watch through and through, not a round movement forced into a non‑round frame.

Water‑resistance is rated to 30 meters, appropriate to a slim dress watch whose natural habitat is the wrist under a cuff. A calfskin leather strap, secured by matching 5N rose‑gold hardware, completes the ensemble with the sort of understatement that keeps the spotlight firmly on the architecture within.​

Caliber DR002SR: A Heart Of Gold

At the center of this watch lies the new caliber DR002SR, a manually wound, shaped movement developed and manufactured entirely at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, under the supervision of master watchmakers Michel Navas and Enrico Barbasini. Based on the Extra Plat’s DR002, the DR002SR reinterprets that original architecture with newly designed bridges and plates specifically intended for openworking.

The decision that defines this caliber, technically and aesthetically, is to construct its bridges and plates in solid 18k 5N rose gold, matching the case. Despite its visual lightness, the DR002SR remains robust in specification: it runs at 4 Hz, with a free‑sprung balance and an ample 65‑hour power reserve, all within a footprint of 31 x 28 mm and a thickness of just 3.1 mm. The movement counts 141 components and 21 jewels, and fits the double‑ellipse case without compromise, maintaining Daniel Roth’s insistence that a shaped case deserves a shaped caliber.
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Skeletonization As Reduction, Not Ornament

Openworking at this level is not a decorative afterthought - it is, in the words of the brand, an exercise in reduction. Bridges and plates were reshaped to “open the movement as much as possible” while preserving rigidity, reliability, and chronometric performance, a balancing act that demands both engineering discipline and an intuitive sense of how far one can pare away material before crossing a structural threshold.

The result is a caliber that functions as a mechanical gallery of traditional finishing techniques. Its sharp interior angles are cut and polished entirely by hand. Every stage of finishing, from beveling to black polishing, is carried out in‑house at La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, allowing the manufacture to maintain the standards Daniel Roth sets for itself across every component.​

Price, Production And Positioning

The Extra Plat Rose Gold Skeleton is produced in limited numbers each year, reflecting the time‑intensive nature of its skeletonized, hand‑finished caliber. It is priced at CHF 85,000 before taxes, placing it firmly in the realm of haute horlogerie dress watches where content, craft, and coherence of concept matter far more than complication count.

Availability begins in January 2026, aligning this release directly with LVMH Watch Week and underlining its role as a statement piece in the brand’s renewed catalogue. Rather than chase the crowded market for hyper‑complicated showpieces, Daniel Roth uses the Extra Plat Skeleton to make a more restrained point: that a thin, time‑only watch, executed to the highest standards, can stand as a complication in itself.

​This timepiece delivers something that feels true to Mr. Roth’s original vision without being bound by it: a watch that moves beyond faithful re‑interpretation to a thoughtful, technically confident next step. For collectors, it offers an unusually pure proposition: an extra‑flat, shaped, solid‑gold skeleton piece with serious hand‑finishing and disciplined design, rendered with the calm assurance of a Maison that understands that sometimes, the most compelling complication is simply doing less, but doing it perfectly.