Les BergersD’Arcadie - 1923
This magnificent pocket watch is decorated with an enamel miniature of Nicolas Poussin’s pastoral painting Et in Arcadia ego. The enameling was carried out by Louise Goll, one of the leading Genevan miniaturists of the early 20th century. The dust cover features an engraving based on a Léopold Robert painting, The Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes, below which is found an excerpt from the score of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. A masterpiece of the collection, with a movement entirely engraved by hand, it displays the talents of the Maison's craftsmen, proof that the artistic crafts are inseparable from both the history of fine watchmaking in Geneva and Vacheron Constantin.
