Vacheron Constantin's "Lou carving" technology appreciation

Recently, Vacheron Constantin held a themed exhibition of "Lutheran Art" in Shanghai. The newly introduced Lutheran Art Wrist Watch has been unveiled. As early as 1755, when the brand was founded, Vacheron Constantin craft technicians proficiently used some watchmaking techniques to add the beauty of timepieces. The piercing craft required the craftsmen to be patient and useful. Lou carving itself is a purely aesthetic craft, but relative to the solid movement, Louver movement every process is more complicated. First of all, the top watchmakers need to use their own life experience carefully consider the movement, it is necessary to do as much as possible on the material Lou engraved processing to show the beautiful movement inside, but also to ensure the normal operation of the movement, to achieve these two Ingenious balance between the fact is not easy. It takes hundreds of hours to conceive, design, and prototype stages, and the more complex the movement, the more sophisticated features it takes, and the longer it takes. After that, masters spend tens of hours drilling and cutting all the main boards, bridges, barrel and other mechanical parts, and then hand-decorating each part, and then engraving. The movement will be repeated several times to return to the workbench for finishing until the exquisitely carved engraving movement can fully display its own charm of magic. The first Vacheron Constantin watch made by the brand's founder Jean-Marc Vacheron in 1755 is already equipped with a carved balance wheel splint. Since then Vacheron Constantin adheres to the pursuit of transparency, while creating more and more sophisticated mechanical parts, by 1924, created the first overall engraving movement and installed it on a pocket watch. Since the 1960s, Vacheron Constantin, as a leader in this extremely complex field, has shown immense creativity, gradually using engraving techniques on a variety of different movements, and also skillfully engraving Engraving technology and other arts and crafts combine in all kinds of pocket watches and watches on display miniature miracle watch making. This year, Vacheron Constantin to reshape the aesthetic concept and accordingly transform their own technology, introduced a new series of Lou engraved watch, once again broaden their artistic boundaries. It leads the carving process to create a sculpture of a straight line forming a staggered curve, creating a dazzling, glamorous light and shadow effect.

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