New partnership with the Ecole Boulle

The Ecole Boulle, one of the largest European art and design schools and Vacheron Constantin have announced an unprecedented partnership agreement, in Paris on the 18th November.

On this occasion, Christophe Hespel, Ecole Boulle’s Director, and Juan-Carlos Torres, CEO Vacheron Constantin, presented a programme entitled «Métiers d’Art et design: échange d’expertise et de compétence» (Artistic crafts and design: sharing expertise and competence) between the Ecole Boulle and the brand, which is scheduled to continue until 2017.

Through this partnership, the manufacture wishes to pursue its commitment to passing on values and skills, as well as its determination to promote and guide up-and-coming generations. This project highlights the close ties between the two institutions that are keen to maintain, preserve and develop artistic crafts along with their excellence and their creativity. This association is built around the transmission of these skills, the rigorous discipline of each operation, as well as profound respect for workmanship and for artisans.

This joint endeavour will involve around 45 students being trained in the fields of design and artistic crafts. The initial phase of this programme consists in two creative projects entrusted to students at the Ecole Boulle as well as the faculty members supervising them. The first involves designing one or several luxury presentation boxes for Haute Horlogerie watches, based on their diverse roles encompassing protection, presentation and stage-setting in boutiques. The second relates to visuals of watch dials from the Métiers d’Art Fabuleux Ornements collection.

These two designs will be unveiled at Vacheron Constantin and then actually produced in the workshops of the manufacture, a fine means of enabling Ecole Boulle’s students to see their ideas take shape.

December 17, 2014