The Grand Elegance Of Great Empires

The Métiers d'Art Tribute to Great Civilisations are an opportunity to witness the rise and fall of humanity's foundational cultures through the eyes (and hands) of Vacheron Constantin's master artisans

- Jonathan Ho

FOUNDED IN 1755, Vacheron Constantin is the world's oldest watch Manufacture in continuous production for over 260 years, faithfully perpetuating a proud heritage of watchmaking excellence through generations of master artisans. And so it is no surprise that they have embarked on a grandiloquent project, conceiving of the Métiers d'Art Tribute to Great Civilisations.

Famed for its horological showpieces, the most well-known among them, the Reference 57260, a single highly complicated mechanical pocket watch, featuring 57 complications; Vacheron Constantin's Métiers d'Art Great Civilisations stands in opposition as an act of horological restraint, allowing its tribute to bygone Empires to speak through artisanal, micro-sculptures.

Inspired by emblematic masterpieces of the Louvre, each of the four Métiers d'Art Tribute to Great Civilisations explores the majesty of antiquity expressed across four eras; the main theme originated in the museum's incredible collection of antiquities: the Persian Empire under Darius the Great; the Egypt of the pharaohs from the time of the Middle Kingdom; the Hellenistic period in Greece; and the birth of the Roman Empire with the advent of Augustus.

An Opportunity To Travel Through Time With Vacheron Constantin's Master Artisans