Vacheron Constantin Les Collectionneurs: 10 World-Touring Vintage Timepieces Touch Down in NYC
Vacheron Constantin’s Les Collectionneurs Exhibition ? a collection of (currently) 10 notable vintage timepieces from the Genevan manufacture’s 260-plus-year history, all impeccably restored and available for sale to consumers ? is currently on display in New York, after its first two stops in Singapore and London. The watches, manufactured in a period spanning from 1928 to 1993, will call the brand’s Madison Avenue boutique home until August 17, 2018. Here is a rundown of the Collectionneurs pieces, from oldest to newest.
From 1928 comes the only pocketwatch in the collection, No. 11757, with a 46-mm, three-part platinum case and a minute repeater activated by a slide at 9 o’clock. The silvered dial has black enameled Arabic numerals, small seconds at 6 o’clock, and an old-school railroad-track minute circle. The historical-styled oeil de perdrix hands are in blued steel. Inside the tripartite, bassined case is the manual-winding Caliber 17″20/12, with 29 jewels, a Swiss lever escapement, a flat balance spring, and a mainplate of German silver. Vacheron has priced the watch at $80,500. No. 11757 (1928)
One of two vintage chronographs in the collection, No. 10646, is a yellow-gold men’s watch with a round, yellow-gold case, measuring 33 mm in diameter and sporting two rectangular shaped pushers on the side. This model is notable for the cylindrical, double-gadroon lugs that are soldered to the top and bottom of the case. The movemen...
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