WRIST-SIZED HISTORY
A grand homage to the history of civilisation is what Vacheron Constantin proposes with its latest Métiers d’Art collection. Created in partnership with the Louvre Museum, the Métiers d’Art Tribute to Great Civilisations collection presents four masterpieces that look to ancient civilisations whose treasures lie safe on the museum grounds: The golden age of ancient Egypt, the Persian empire of Darius the Great, the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire of the Julio-Claudians. A wealth of painstaking techniques have gone into the watches’ making—from stone marquetry and micro mosaics to engraving and champlevé and grisaille enamelling—which explains just why the watches are limited to only five pieces each.