A COLLECTOR’S QUARTET
This mini-collection of exclusive pieces pays tribute to monumental works of Antiquity, all exhibited in the Louvre galleries in Paris.
Since the beginning of the current decade, Vacheron Constantin has been enjoying an artistic partnership with the Louvre. This year, this collaboration comes to life in a series of four watches, each rolled out in a 12-piece limited edition. On their dial, the manufacture’s craftspeople, mastering nine métiers d’art, have faithfully reproduced these iconic, monumental works exhibited in the Parisian museum’s Antiquity galleries. The Buste d’Akhénaton, as such, consorts with the Lamassu de Sargon II, the Athéna de Velletri and the Tibre de L’Iseum Campense. In addition to engraving and sculpture, gilding, enameling, painting, marquetry, micro-mosaic, and glyptics were used to complete the miniatures present on this outstanding timepieces that form the Métier d’Art Tribute to Great Civilisations collection.
Each incredibly-elaborate composition took many weeks of meticulous work to achieve. “Every dial required between 120 and 220 hours of work based on its complexity”, emphasizes Sandrine Donguy, Product Marketing & Innovation Director at Vacheron Constantin.
All these watches are driven by the same caliber, the 2460 G4/2, assembled using some 237 components. Over the course of its 40-hour power reserve, this selfwinding movement energizes the display of the hours, minutes, date, and day, in four separate apertures. The sapphire-crystal back invites to admire the oscillating weight decorated with an engraving inspired by an 18th-century lithograph depicting the East facade of the Louvre.
