It took Swiss enamel artist Anita Porchet 3.5 months to complete the dial. The ceiling is quite the epitome of Chagall’s style and was completed in 1964. You have to realize that the 200-meter-wide ceiling needed to be hand replicated on a 31mm wide watch dial. It was easy to tell that VC wanted to reproduce the ceiling on a watch dial in enamel.

I first wrote about this piece here where I was quickly able to decipher what Vacheron Constantin was up to.

For the last few years, since 2007, Vacheron Constantin has held a partnership with the l’Opera de Paris (Paris Opera House), and is here making an additional claim on that relationship by reproducing the famous Marc Chagall ceiling from the opera house on a watch dial.

More likely, the special March Chagall ceiling watch will be on permanent exhibition, traveling around to show off VC’s stuff. I guess they enjoy it too much to part with it? Maybe.

Vacheron Constantin paid a lot of money to make this watch, and they are keeping it for themselves.

Marc chagall paris opera house ceiling