Métiers d’Art Élégance Sartoriale

From the Latin “sartorius” (related to a tailor), the term sartorial fits perfectly to the work Vacheron Constantin has done in recent years in the field of ‘Métiers d’Art’, and is now joined by a collection of watches featuring dials that are a veri- table ode to the art of tailoring at its finest. Guardians of time, guardians of style. It is with this statement that Vacheron Constantin shares with tailoring the discipline of an art passed down from generation to generation. The notion of dress- ing well is regularly backed by an interest in crafts- manship. This is why elegance aficionados tend to seek out handmade quality, achieved through the use of traditional methods, and feel perfectly at ease with the exclusive nature of bespoke tailoring. An ‘apiéceur’ spends dozens of hours on a made- to-measure jacket, in which thousands of stitches and an array of different materials, exemplarily cut and combined by experienced hands, are essential factors in ensuring an impeccable fit. And just as in this example of fine tailoring, lux- ury watchmaking is an art that involves great refine- ment, carefully picked materials and ultra precise movements. All governed by a great determina- tion to achieve aesthetic perfection and technical balance. The five models making up the Métiers d ́Art Élégance Sartoriale collection recreate a variety of patterns on their dials, achieved through the age-old art of ‘guilloché’. The Prince of Wales check, fea- turing overlapping squares connected by horizontal and vertical lines and highlighted by translucent raspberry-red enamel, is just one example of the sartorial art offered by this Swiss watchmaker.