Overview

• The La Quête du Temps automaton clock, featuring a life-sized “Astronomer,” opens at Le Louvre’s Mécaniques d’Art from September 17 to November 12, 2025.
• It integrates over 6,000 components with 23 complications and 15 reported patent filings, uniting astronomical displays with decorative crafts.
• The Astronomer enacts 144 choreographed gestures to indicate time and celestial data, synchronized with a mechanical music mechanism featuring melodies by Woodkid.
• Alongside the clock, Vacheron Constantin announced a Métiers d’Art “Tribute to the Quest of Time” wristwatch limited to 20 pieces and priced on request.
• The watch uses the new manually wound Calibre 3670 (512 parts, 5 Hz, six-day reserve) with on-demand double retrograde time on the front and a sidereal time sky chart on the reverse.