Vacheron Constantin

Vacheron Constantin at Watches and Wonders 2014 Part II

Oct 04, 2014,07:38 AM

As requested by Henry, here are other pics we saw during our VC Hour Club presentation, hosted by our dear friend (and Hour Club Don!) Mr Alex Ghotbi.

I am very sorry for the poor pics quality. There were several reasons - firstly my Canon decided to play punk that morning and I kept seeing purple streaks and lines on the display and it was very hard to focus... secondly for some of the super watches, we only had a few mins to photograph them and they were so impressive I was nervous :P

Anyway, some pics here and sharings.

The piece unique Maitre Cabinotier Astronomica!! It was already sold and we could only see it for a few mins! No trying as it was all wrapped for the lucky owner!

I couldn't take a good shot of the back sorry!

15 complications including a min repeater, tourbillon, equation of time, QP, sunrise and sunset times, PR, etc!

Another super watch from VC: the Traditionnelle Calibre 2253 L’empreinte du dragon! Featuring several complications as well including a Tourbillon, QP, equation of time. etc

A master engraver from VC skilfully creates this masterpiece of a case, with an extremely meticulous dragon scale motif.

We were also very lucky that morning that Mr Juan-Carlos Torres stepped into our room to meet us for awhile and he was wearing this!

The Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Contemporaine Ultra-Thin Calibre 1731 removed from Mr Torres' wrist!

The beautiful back of the 1731 - I hope Alex returned this watch to Mr Torres for he was so eyeing it!

Some beautiful pieces for the ladies were also featured in W&W 2014. Amongst our group of collector friends, 2 of them have spouses who buy the VCs!

VC is wise to offer something for the ladies definitely! I also feel RG is perfect especially for Asian ladies with our skin tone and love for a bit of bling. Well done VC on these pieces. They are not the super watches but they are important to make our other halves happy!

Finally, kpk PMed me about this. This is the Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Day-Date and Power Reserve in RG, aka the China edition. I understand it will be sold exclusively in China first. I think it will be very popular as some of us Chinese do prefer the warmth of RG than Platinum for more warmth.

Hope you enjoyed these posts on VC in W&W 2014. I will do one last short post on our Hour Club dinner soon

Cheers

robin

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Many thanx Robin,

By: Mike H : October 4th, 2014-11:59

It happened to me several times also not to have the right camera at the right moment and the result is what it is: great watches for which obviously the pics do not render justice. Of course it is a pity and you will surely be punished for that (LOL) but...

Thank you Mike! :)

By: jrwong23 (aka watchthebin) : October 5th, 2014-02:54

I am glad even though the pics are not the best, you enjoyed the post :) Time for me to get a better camera! :) Cheers Robin

Thanks Robin for the great report!

By: Horology75 : October 4th, 2014-23:01

VC is back in action!

I think VC actually is holding back...

By: jrwong23 (aka watchthebin) : October 5th, 2014-02:57

For SIHH 2015 as 2015 is their 260th anniversary ! VC has always been at the top of haute horology (along with some other esteemed brands) :) Next year will be more exciting ! Thanks for your kind words Ovi. :) Cheers Robin

Hi Robin, great report and photos. An excellent effort.

By: kpk : October 5th, 2014-08:42

I like some pieces more than others, but overall, a great effort by VC. I love the slate grey dials of the Patrimony, but the white date window on the automatic. I like the Traditionelle day date pr in RG but have to see it in the flesh. Love the Astronom...