$125,000 'Year Of The Dog' Watch Unveiled by Vacheron Constantin For Chinese New Year
It is at long last out: the main "Year of the Dog" Chinese zodiac look for 2018 and it is from Vacheron Constantin. The most established persistently working Swiss watch brands makes staggering Metiers d'Arts "The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac" observes each year out of appreciation for the Chinese New Year and this one won't baffle. The puppy is a faithful image, committed to its proprietor, enduring and solid: the ideal topic for a watch dial.
On February 16, 2018, the darling pooch will commend the start of its year (assuming control for the chicken) on the Chinese zodiac - and on the dial of two Vacheron Constantin watches. Only 12 of each 40mm watch will be made: one in platinum with a blue dial and white gold etched puppy, one in rose gold with a shined red or bronze dial and pink gold etched canine. To make the radiant animal on the dial, Vacheron Constantin's specialists looked to the old craft of paper-cutting, known as Jianzhi, and reinterpreted it through astonishing etching and veneer work.
In the focal point of the dial, a three-dimensional etched platinum or pink gold (contingent upon the rendition) pooch dances on dial, with one paw up as if in movement and tail swaying. The whole body of the pooch is so finely carved and engraved that one can see every one of the hairs as if they are blowing in wind. He is portrayed against a blue or bronze veneer dial (contingent upon the variant) that highlights a vine/foliage theme carved onto the dial's external edges - just as the canine is joyfully strolling in a garden.
One reason watch is so charming is the way that it is without hands to show the time. The creative magnificence is controlled by the Caliber 2460 G4 development, made in house by Vacheron Constantin and conveying the Geneva Seal. This development empowers the sans hands show of time by means of four windows deliberately put at 2 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock that show the hours, minutes, day and date. The complex 237-section development is obvious by means of a sapphire caseback. The pink gold adaptation retails for $103,000 ,and the platinum to be about $125,000.