The invention relates to the technical field of coating metal films with protective films, and specifically relates to a vacuum coating method of a protective film. The vacuum coating method of the protective film comprises the following preparation steps of 1, vacuumizing, namely putting a product to be coated in a vacuum chamber, and then vacuumizing, and heating simultaneously so that water vapor is formed on the upper layer of a container; 2, plating a metal film, namely plating a metal film through an evaporative metal film coating process; 3, introducing air after finishing coating of the metal film, namely, turning off a diffusion pump, turning on a molecular grating, charging air into the vacuum chamber through a flowmeter and stabilizing the degree of vacuum and keeping for 0.2-1 minutes; 4, cleaning the surface of the metal film, namely starting an ion bombardment power source; and 5, plating the protective film, including charging liquid vapor of organic silicon, keeping the pressure unchanged, and starting the ion bombardment power source again so that the organic silicon grows on the metal film layer by layer to form the protective film. The vacuum coating method of the protective film has the characteristics of high production efficiency and low cost, and the protective film is good in compactness, strong in protection performance and wide in application range.