In an elegant continuation of their classic line of complete calendar timepieces, Traditionnelle, Vacheron Constantin has added the beautifully handsome and complex Collection Excellence Platine to its prestigious lineage. “A contemporary expression of the grand Geneva watchmaking tradition, conveyed through a palette of horological complications in a classical design. An “Etagé” case and lugs, a fluted case-back, a railway-type minute track, Dauphine-type hours and minutes hands, as well as “bâtons de Genève” hour-markers: the aesthetic codes of the Traditionnelle collection are all clearly present, complemented by the aura of exclusivity conveyed by the Excellence Platine signature. Punctuated by gold bi-facetted…
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One style, two icons. The haute horologerie Maison Vacheron Constantin has revisited their early design codes for a reinterpretation of their two famous calendar timepieces from 1942 and 1948. Vacheron Constantin presents two new Historiques models featuring a complete calendar. A deliberately vintage look for these new models reinterpreting the creativity and the aesthetic of the iconic timepieces born in the 1940s. With their calendar function, round case with triple gadroons, two-tone dial, “claw-type” lugs and mechanical manual-winding movement, the new Historiques Triple calendrier 1942 and the Triple calendrier 1948 are reviving a typical Vacheron Constantin complication and style from…
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IT’S IN THE STARS The Métiers d’Art Copernicus celestial spheres 2460 RT collection elegantly expresses the creativity of the Vacheron Constantin master-artisans. Inspired by the great mathematician and philosopher, Nicolas Copernicus, who in 1543 published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, a revolutionary theory of heliocentrism, demonstrating not only that the Earth spins on its axis and has a satellite, the Moon, but above all that it gravitates around the Sun – truly groundbreaking work of his day given the scientific body of the day believed the Earth was the center of the universe. In his honor Vacheron Constantin have imagined a…