Louis Vuitton and Singer turn a clock request into two whole-car 911 collaborations

Singer Vehicle Design has spent 17 years making classic Porsche 911s its own through what it calls 'reimagining'. At Monterey Car Week 2026 it revealed its first collaboration with Louis Vuitton, which produced two dramatically different cars — a saffron coupe and a nautical white cabriolet — plus capsule collections built around each.

The project began small: a Singer client wanted a Louis Vuitton clock installed in their car. Louis Vuitton approached Singer about making it, and Singer's Mazen Fawaz says the conversation quickly expanded until the collaboration covered every element of the car. Word travelled inside Louis Vuitton to Nicolas Ghesquière, whose involvement produced the second car, the turbocharged cabriolet.

For the coupe, La Fabrique du Temps — Louis Vuitton's watchmaking workshop in Switzerland — developed a removable mechanical clock inspired by the house's Tambour watch. Fitting it convincingly meant Singer redesigned the speedometer, tachometer and gauges around it, a roughly year-long exercise in rethinking the instrument panel. Plastic trim gave way to metal switches, locks, vents and controls finished with techniques borrowed from watchmaking, while natural-toned leather, yellow stitching and diamond embossing echoed Louis Vuitton luggage.

The cabriolet takes a nautical turn: wood on the bumpers and through the storage areas, a varnished rear luggage deck recalling a runabout's deck, a roof whose stretched form evokes a sail, and a leather drawstring at the gearshift borrowing the Noé bag's closure. Rob Dickinson, Singer's founder, says the two houses shared the same standards and ambition, with every major decision made together.