Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Copernicus Celestial Spheres 2460 RT

Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Copernicus Celestial Spheres 2460 RT is actually a trio of watches, featuring the same complication and powered by the same movement, but having differently, but finely, decorated dials.Named after the Renaissance astronomer, the Copernicus Celestial Spheres indicates the time with a pair of arrows on the edge of the dial. These travel along a track under the bezel, driven by gears on the edge of the movement. Almost invisible against the intricately decorated dials, the hands are a mere accessory https://www.aomwatches.is/.

All three versions of the watch have a Sun made of 18k yellow gold in the centre of the dial, with the Earth making an elliptical orbit around it.Moving in real time, the Earth takes 365.24 days to complete one revolution around the Sun, while rotating on its own axis on a 24-hour period, as it would over one day. The mechanism is precise enough that a full day’s error in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun will only be reached in 8000 years.

The calibre 2460 RT inside is based on Vacheron Constantin’s in-house automatic calibre 2460, with the addition of a module that indicates the orbit and rotation of the Earth.