Trust Vacheron Constantin to blow your mind by making watches that are artistic enough to deserve a place in a museum. The Métiers d’Art Tribute to Great Civilisations features dials inspired by the great civilizations of antiquity, found at the world’s largest museum, the Louvre. The latest collection is a visual, time-telling treat for art connoisseurs and history buffs, as it brings the iconic Louvre to your wrists. Each of the four new watches is a limited and numbered series of five that taps into the favor of those with a penchant for the rare, refined, artistic objects in life. It will excite connoisseurs to learn this collaboration references a piece in the museum’s collection of antiquities. From the Grand sphinx de Tanis, Lion de Darius, and Victoire de Samothrace to the Buste d’Auguste, watch lovers will witness the coming together of art and technique on the 42mm watches.
The legendary Louvre has been home to The Great Sphinx de Tanis since 1826. The blue-black enamel dial draws inspiration from the necklace of ancient Egyptian astronomer and scribe Nakht-khonsou-irou. The dial is highlighted with a hand-engraved sphinx at the dial’s center. The necklace is accentuated using champlevé enamel petals, with some purposefully aged to depict wear of time. The watch also features hieroglyphics of the text, “The king of Upper and Lower Egypt Ba-en-Ra-mery-Amon.”

Yet another vision in blue is the Lion de Darius timepi...