Métiers d'Art Tribute to Great Civilisations - Buste d'Auguste

Working hand-in-hand with the Musée du Louvre, Vacheron Constantin has introduced four new watches to its Métiers d’Art collection. Each is a tribute to an ancient civilisation. They are the Persian Empire, Ancient Egypt at the time of the pharaohs, the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, and Imperial Rome. They are represented by a major cultural artefact chosen among the masterpieces in the museum’s care, reproduced as a gold applique. These masterfully sculpted miniatures are set against a dial whose ornamentation illustrates the decorative arts of the corresponding period, again inspired by works from the Louvre’s antiquities collection and entrusted to master artisans in enamelling, stone marquetry, engraving and stone micro-mosaic. In addition, the sapphire crystal that carries the sculpted applique is embellished with extracts from important texts from the era, reproduced in metallised engraving in the original cuneiform, hieroglyphic, ancient Greek or Latin script. The models for the timepiece referencing Imperial Rome are a bust of Augustus and fourth-century Roman mosaics. Like the other watches in the series, it is fitted with Vacheron Constantin’s automatic 2460 G4/2 calibre with apertures around the edge of the dial showing indications of the hours, minutes, day and date, and is offered as a limited series of five.