Mercator - 1994
Enameling is a specialty of the Maison and has featured on a number of different models, one of the best known of which is dedicated to Mercator (1512-1594). This famous Flemish mathematician and geographer, whose real name was Gerhard Kremer, drew the first flat projections of the globe. Traveling is a recurrent theme at Vacheron Constantin, so the company decided to mark the 400th anniversary of the cartographer’s death by launching a collection in his name. The dial reproduces in enamel the maps of the hemispheres drawn by Mercator himself and the retrograde hands in the shape of a compass were devised especially for the occasion.
