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Three years after the beginning of their partnership, the Louvre Museum and Vacheron Constantin are renewing their collaboration with the Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art collection of unique timepieces, Tribute To Great Civilizations.
Conceived as a tribute to ancient civilizations, this new collection consists of four watches, and each one references an iconic piece from the Louvre Museum’s antiquities collection: The Great Sphinx of Tanis, the Victory of Samothrace, the Bust Of Augustus and the Lion of Darius.
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With a precision and finesse of execution worthy of the Swiss watchmaking house, these pieces of art have many meticulous details gathered in a space of 42mm. And each of these watches uses a different handcrafted technique to reflect the nature of the art that inspired it.
These timepieces do have a few things in common, though, like the absence of hands! Indeed, the time and date of day are indicated in narrow openings around the edge of the dial, to allow the artisans to have all the space in the dial to make the miniature representations of the ancient pieces.
The Great Sphinx of Tanis
This first watch represents one of the largest sphinxes of the Ancient Egyptian Empire (2700 to 2200 BC). Sculpted around 2600 BC, the Great Sphinx of Tanis has been housed in the Louvre since 1826. The dial of the watch that represents it was made from blue-black enamel and features the hand-engraved sphinx in the center of it. As each watch has an engraving of a period-related text on the sapphire, here a metalized engraving presents in hieroglyphs the text “The king of Upper and Lower Egypt Ba-en-Ra-mery-Amon. The son of Ra Merenptah who is satisfied with the Maat, endowed with eternal life“.
The Victory of Samothrace
The iconic Greek goddess Nike, also known as the Victory of Samothrace or Winged Victory, inspired Vacheron Constantin to create this second watch. It features a brown dial that required six firings and a mixture of discontinuous enamels, as well as grisaille enameling on the outer dial. The result was to get closer to the style of Greek vases. Finally, on the sapphire was arranged “A list of Athenian initiates in the mysteries of the Great Gods of the island under the direction of a certain Socrates”.
The Bust Of Augustus
The Augustus Bust watch pays tribute, as its name suggests, to the first Roman emperor Augustus (known as Augustus), dating from 27 B.C. It features a mix of gold and enamel appliques to represent Augustus and stone micro-mosaic for the dial. More than 660 stones were used to create the mosaic patterns! Behind the bust of Augustus is also represented an external frieze in white gold patina.
The Lion of Darius
Finally, the last timepiece in the collection represents the Lion of Darius, found on the frieze of lions in the courtyard of the palace of Darius the Great in Susa, in present-day southwestern Iran (559-330 BC). The latter was notably made from stone marquetry and features the enameled Lion. In addition, behind the Lion is a frieze made of champlevé enamel and engraved metal inspired by the Frieze of the Archers.
Very collectible, each of the four watches was made in a very limited series, in only five copies! And their price has not been revealed.
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Three years after the beginning of their partnership, the Louvre Museum and Vacheron Constantin are renewing their collaboration with the Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art collection of unique timepieces, Tribute To Great Civilizations.
Conceived as a tribute to ancient civilizations, this new collection consists of four watches, and each one references an iconic piece from the Louvre Museum’s antiquities collection: The Great Sphinx of Tanis, the Victory of Samothrace, the Bust Of Augustus and the Lion of Darius.
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Three years after the beginning of their partnership, the Louvre Museum and Vacheron Constantin are renewing their collaboration with the Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art collection of unique timepieces, Tribute To Great Civilizations.
Conceived as a tribute to ancient civilizations, this new collection consists of four watches, and each one references an iconic piece from the Louvre Museum’s antiquities collection: The Great Sphinx of Tanis, the Victory of Samothrace, the Bust Of Augustus and the Lion of Darius.
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