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Vacheron Constantin Overseas Gray Watch Line For 2009

Please don't tell me that gray is the new black. Vacheron Constantin's new Overseas Gray watch at least wants to suggest that, and the slate colored look of the popular sports watch from the thankfully conservative watch brand seems to suggest just that. Having undergone but just a few minor tweaks over the past decade or so, the Overseas line of diver-themed watches from Vacheron Constantin is the watch to wear for those who like the idea and heritage behind the brand, but aren't too keen on the highly traditional looks of much of the watch line (and who, like me, are not into the design of the "experimental" Qaui de l'Ile watches).

Another way to look at the Overseas Gray watch is that it has been pulled from a black & white movie. The tonalities of the watch in its multi-shade monochromatic glory suggest just that. Can't you see picking this watch right out of a classic film before "glorious color" supplanted the days of forever noir. Accordingly, the Vacheron Constantin Gray is based on a design from 1933, which has been reinterpreted by the brand a few times over the ages.

Two versions of the 42mm gray nickel-coated 18k white gold cased watches are available. The three-hand and chronograph housing an automatic Vacheron Constantin caliber 1226 and 1137 respectively. The dial is a satin finish with white gold hands and hour indexes. The watch will come with a "mouse grey" alligator strap and a black rubber strap. Check for these new pieces of history soon.

Ariel Adams publishes the popular watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Vacheron Constantin Lady Kalla Flame Watch

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Flame on! This jewelry watch from Vacheron Constantin features the newest officially recognized diamond shape, the "flame cut." The shape, that looks like a small flame, is emphasized in the dial as well as the use of 200 flame cut diamonds all over the watch, 20 on the case, 60 in the dial, and 120 used on the bracelet. The settings and case of the watch are all made from 18k white gold. Being a jewelry watch, the Vacheron Constantin Kalla Flame is a pretty wild looking piece, but still retains the grace you have come to expect from the brand.

Interestingly, Vacheron Constantin chose to retain a mechanical movement for the small profile watch. Inside is a manually wound 1005 movement, that is just 3.6mm thick. Don't expect too much life out of it though as you need to wind it at least every 30 hours - certainly enough for a good night (and morning) out. With a total of 36.5 karats of the attractive new flame cut diamonds, the Lady Kalla serves its purpose well to highlight a novel, but classic looking piece of watch jewelry for women.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Vacheron Constantin Skeleton Patrimony Traditionnelle Watch

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At SIHH 2009 this year, Vacheron Constantin really showed the watch world what it does best. The presentation featured several wonderful classic looking watches that stressed the company's heritage and skill set (nothing like the confusing departure to "modern" watches that we've seen in the past).

My choice for Vacheron Constantin's star of the show would be this Skeleton Patrimony Traditionelle watch (the 38mm wide 18k white gold version). It starts with a vintage 1967 Automatic 1120 SQ movement. The movement is remarkably thin at 2.45mm, even though it is an automatic. Everything unnecessary has been stripped from the movement, and the rest has been beautifully decorated and skeletonized as you can see. Even the mainspring barrel has been cut with the hallmark cross of Geneva. There is also a smaller 30mm wide version available that uses a tiny 1.64mm thick manually wound 1003 SQ movement from 1955.

The Skeleton Patrimony Traditionnelle features a diamond bezel (82 diamonds on the 38mm size) set version as well as a plain white gold bezel version. Despite the aesthetic focus on the watch, I like how Vacheron Constantin has not neglected function. The dauphine hands follow a full number index ring around the face with diamond hour markers, that makes telling the time comfortable. This is easily the most function focused high-decoration watch that I've seen from Vacheron Constantin or anyone else.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921

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Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin has just come out with the newest model in its Les Historiques line, the distinctive American 1921 (above). Les Historiques was "born out of the desire to highlight the richness of Vacheron Constantin's heritage by reviving emblematic legendary models conveying the brand's spirit and savoir-faire in contemporary reinterpretations." The American 1921 is a cushion-shaped, daigonal reading timepiece with a crown at one o'clock, nearly identical to a model produced in very limited numbers by the Geneva-based manufacturer specifically for the American market during the Roaring Twenties.

Priced at $24,900, the watch is crafted in 18K rose gold with a diameter of 40 mm. The dial features a sand-blasted finish, 12 Arabic numerals painted in black, and a minute-track also painted in black. The Breguet hour and minute hands are in black oxidized 18K gold. The case, featuring a slightly convex sapphire crystal, has a transparent back, and the watch comes on a dark-brown, hand-stitched, saddle-finish, square-scaled alligator leather strap adorned with an 18K pink gold buckle in the shape of a half Maltese cross.

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Vacheron Constantin Malte Tourbillon Regulator Watch Judged Year's Best Tourbillon

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A consistent favorite among Vacheron Constantin fans, the Malte watch line's Tourbillon Regulator has recently been chosen as the best tourbillon watch of the year by the 2008 Premier Middle East Watches, Jewelery, & Pen Awards held at the Ritz Carlton in Bahrain last month. Judges were comprised of industry members as well as the general public. This Malte watch combines a tourbillon and regulator complication using an in-house Vacheron Constantin tonneau-shaped caliber 1790R movement. A power reserve indicator assists with managing the manually wound movement. The dial features rich guilloche texturing and classic Vacheron Constantin hands in gold, for a stunning yet unpretentious look. Seconds are counted by the tourbillon which makes a full revolution in its cage each sixty seconds. The case is superbly hand-finished and decorated with a design that improves upon the original Malte. Versions are available in platinum or 18k gold, with alligator straps. This Malte Tourbillon Regulator is the finest example of classic watch aesthetics that Swiss Vacheron Constantin watch manufacture produces.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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The 'Impossible-to-Counterfeit' Qaue de L'ile Watch

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Every luxury watch brand has knock-off versions, in varying degrees of quality and effort, but if you want a timepiece that can't be copied then the Quai de L'ile by Vacheron Constantin is for you. The Qaui de L'ile is named after the watchmaker's historic address in Geneva and has a laundry list of high-tech features that are said to make the watch "counterfeit-proof." Some of the most interesting are tiny words printed with special inks like those used to make money, laser engravings on the dial so small they can't be seen without a magnifying glass, and layers of invisible markings that only show up clearly under UV light (you can almost see one, a sun symbol, in the picture above between the 1 and the 2 on the dial).

The Vacheron Constantin Quai de L'ile was just launched last month and, depending on features, is priced between $29,000-$60,000.

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Gallery: The 'Counterfeit-Proof' Qaue de L'ile Watch

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Euro Billionaire Commissions $6.5 Million Watch

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Apparently not everyone is feeling the bite of the recession. A European mogul has commissioned luxury Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin to create a one-of-a-kind $6.5 million timepiece that will instantly become one of the world's most expensive watches. The design, which may take years to complete, will be many times more precious than Vacheron's Tour de l'Ile timepiece (above) created for the company's 250th anniversary in 2005. Only seven examples of the Tour de l'Ile timepiece, billed as the "world's most complicated double-faced watch", were made for an astounding $1.5 million apiece. A few more commissions of this sort and the luxury watch industry will have nothing to worry about.

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Vacheron Constantin Explorer Series Watches

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Vacheron Constantin has revealed the latest in their Explorer series of watches. The two new models celebrate Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus (previous models were devoted to the Chinese admiral Zheng Hé and Magellan). The enamelled dial is made of two parts that partially overlap. The top part features a map of the explorer's journeys and the bottom part shows twelve hour numerals traversing a 132° minute scale on the lower part of the dial. The case is 18K gold and measures 40mm and the movement is the automatic Vacheron in-house caliber 1126AT, with 36 jewels, beating at 28,800 bph and with a power reserve of 40 hours. There are 60 watches of each explorer.

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Vacheron Constantin Kaila Lune Watch

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The Kalla Lune is the latest haute jewelry line of watches from Vacheron Constantin. The Kalia Lune Large model has 816 baguette-cut diamonds, 23 brilliant-cut diamonds and one rose-cut diamond for the crown for a total weight of 42.61 carats. The stones are hand-cut and hand-set to work perfectly with the case. The 18K white gold and diamond bracelet is set with baguette cut diamonds set so that they seem to flow across the wrist. The watch is available in either a 41mm or 36mm case size. The watches uses the manual-wind Vacheron caliber 1410 with Geneva Hallmark movement which has 22 jewels, beating at 28,800 bph and with a power reserve of 40 hours. The watches feature a moonphase indicator.

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Unique Watches For Only Watch 2007

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On September 20 this year, the Only Watch event will take place in Monaco again. For the event, some of the world's finest watchmakers create special unique timepieces to be sold at auction to benefit research on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This watch is the entry from Girard-Perregaux and it is the only watch in the world to combine a perpetual calendar, the indication of time in 24 different international cities as well as the business hours of four major stock markets. The dial displays the date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phase. The mechanism takes into account the length of each month, allowing for the leap years without any manual adjustment before 2100. Two mobile rings on the dial show the opening hours of the New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and the different times around the world. The watch has a 41mm pink gold case with sapphire front and back crystals. The Vacheron Constantin entry is after the jump and I will bring you more Only Watch 2007 models as they are released.

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New Vacheron Constantin Watches

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Today we are taking a look at some of the gorgeous new watches from Vacheron Constantin. Whether you like complex watches with intricate mechanisms, the retro fantastic or watches that are simply artistic, they have created something for every type of watch lover.

The Masque watches are part of a collection that will span three years with twelve masks, 25 pieces of each. Each timepiece is uses the automatic Calibre 2460G4 movement. The time is read without any hands: by means of four discs that indicate the hours, minutes, days and date in windows, leaving the center of the dial free for the masks. The use of specially-treated glass creates the impression that the masks are floating. Each sapphire crystal has a different tint to show off the color of the mask. The 40mm case is fashioned in white gold for the Alaskan mask, pink gold for the Indonesian mask, yellow gold for the Chinese mask, and platinum for the Congolese mask. There are 25 boxes, each with the four watches representing four different continents (The Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania), for a total of 100 individual pieces.

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Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Bi-Retrograde

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The other day, a fellow blogger and I had a chat about the new Urwerk. He says yuck, I say yum. One thing we can probably both agree on is the beauty of this delightful piece from Vacheron Constantin. This watch is known as the Contemporary Patrimony Bi-Retrograde Day Date. It has a 42.5 mm 18K rose gold case and has baton hands, four polished 18kt gold triangular hour markers shaped at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock, and a minute-circle of applied gold cabochons. It uses the caliber 2460R31R7 automatic mechanical movement which has hour, minute, date and day functions. The strap is alligator leather and the clasp features Vacheron Constantin's Maltese Cross which also appears on the crown. A post on the Watch Pro Site shows more pictures and reveals that the price is said to be around 13,000 euros. It's not a big, crazy twirl of a watch like some of the complications we have seen before and will see more of as Baselworld and SIHH approach but if you want a watch to hand down to generations, this is a keeper.

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Your Custom Vacheron Constantin

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Owning a Vacheron Constantin watch is a rare treasure unto itself but having one custom made is a whole world apart. Now at the House of Vacheron Constantin you can create your own bespoke watch through the Vacheron Constantin Atelier Cabinotiers Special Order. The service is offered only through Maison Vacheron Constantin in Geneva and you choose your desired combination of watch case, movements and complications, display and wrist strap in your selection of materials.

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German Newspaper Readers Pick Watch of the Year

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The Watch of the Year for 2006 chosen by readers of the national German-language newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” (The World on Sunday) and the magazine “Armband Uhren”(Wristwatches) were announced at BaselWorld, in Basel, Switzerland. The winner, shown here, is beautiful but perhaps a bit of German bias? My pick would be Vacheron's Tour d'I'lle which comes in at a humble number seven.

For men:
1. Lange & Söhne’s “Lange 1 Time Zone”
2. Chronoswiss’s “Digiteur"
3. Glasshütte Original’s “Panomatic Tourbillion”
4. Rolex’s “Prince”
5. Breitling for Bentley’s “Mulliner Tourbillon”
6. Omega’s “Seamaster Planet Ocean Co-axial”
7. Vacheron Constatin’s “Tour de I’Ile”
8. IWC’s “Ingenieur Automatic”
9. Longines’ “Master Collection, Chronograph”
10. Breguet’s “La Tradition”

For women:
1. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s “Reverso Duoface”
2. Glasshütte Original’s “SunRay"
3. Cartier’s “Santos 100”
4. Longines’ “Evidenza”
5. Baume & Mercier’s “Hampton Milleis”
6. Rolex’s “Lady Datejust”
7. Patek Philippe’s “Twenty-4”
8. Rainer Brand’s “Pezzo"
9. Ebel’s “1911 Lady”
10. Chanel’s “J12"

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Celestial Watch at the Antiquorum Watch Auction

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The latest Antiquorum auction will feature the collection of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. His impressive collection includes a Patek Philippe Ref. 3970E in pink gold,with chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, and moon phases. Antiquorum experts expect this watch to fetch $ 60,000 - 80,000. Other watches in the auction are from two collectors, an "English Gentleman" and a "Scottish Gentleman." The English Gentleman's collection include a Vacheron Constantin, Les Complications Tourbillon 75 which was made in the 1990s in platinum in a limited edition of three with transparent case back and should bring in $80,000 to $120,000. The Scottish Gentleman's collection includes a Patek Philippe “ Celestial Wristwatch." This rare beauty, shown here is Reference 5102 and is an astronomic 18K white gold gentleman’s wristwatch with mean solar time indication, nocturnal sky chart of the Northern Hemisphere, moon phases, moon orbit, and time of the meridian passage of Sirius and the moon and should sell for $140,000 to $160,000.

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