Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Journey Tales Assortment

Vacheron Constantin invites us on an distinctive journey of discovery with its latest Les Cabinotiers Réctis de Voyages, distinctive timepieces that trace the worldwide progress of the Maison. Established in 1755, the founder’s grandson, Jacques-Barthélémi Vacheron, and his confederate, François Constantin, had been quick to know world markets leading to enterprise ties with Central Europe, South America, Scandinavia, Asia, the USA and China. Following throughout the founders’ footsteps, these distinctive watches not solely contact on geographical areas the place Vacheron Constantin blossomed, nonetheless as well as they pay tribute to the distinctive artistic character of these locations. An actual showcase of the Maison’s dedication to preserving ancestral artistic experience, the wonderful thing about the Récits de Voyages timepieces is not pores and pores and skin deep attributable to Vacheron’s extraordinary horological legacy.

Minute Repeater Tourbillon Tribute to Arabesque

In 1817, Vacheron Constantin established ties with Turkey, then the centre of the Ottoman Empire. Growing to Egypt and the Middle East, commissions for classy pocket watches ensued from the ruling households throughout the space. With this chapter in ideas, Les Cabinotiers has crafted a Minute Repeater Tourbillon engraved with standard Muslim motifs, modelled on the rich floral and arabesque patterns found contained within the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

Intricately engraved by hand over three months, the experience and dexterity of the grasp engraver’s hand had been elementary when negotiating the tenth-of-a-millimetre incisions throughout the white gold dial and case. That features a finely engraved white gold lattice-work cowl impressed by mashrabiyas (balcony residence home windows with latticed screens), the white gold dial reveals its refined, filigree magnificence because of the matte black background. The 44mm white gold case choices pure volutes and a geometrical pattern on the flange achieved using line and intaglio engraving.

No a lot much less formidable is the refined in-house calibre 2755 with tourbillon, uncovered on the dial at 6 o’clock, and minute repeater, using experience developed for the placing mechanism of the ultra-complicated Tour de l’Ille timepiece produced for the Maison’s 250^th anniversary.

Quick particulars: 44mm diameter x 13.5mm thickness – 18k white gold hand-engraved case and dial–  manual-winding calibre 2755 with tourbillon and minute repeater – 471 parts – 18,000vph/2.5Hz – 58h vitality reserve –hours, minutes, tourbillon with seconds, minute repeater and vitality reserve – Hallmark of Geneva certification – black alligator leather-based strap, white gold folding clasp – ref. 6650C/000G-084C – distinctive piece

Minute Repeater Tourbillon Tribute to Paintings Deco

The next trip spot on the itinerary is New York. By the early 20^th century, the Maison was successfully established throughout the metropolis, attracting magnates like oil baron Rockefeller and vehicle producer James Ward Packard. To trumpet their ascending financial situation, enterprise tycoons invested in skyscrapers, similar to the well-known Paintings Deco Chrysler Establishing gracing New York’s skyline.

The Minute Repeater Tourbillon is an ode to the splendour of Paintings Deco with a dial embellished with wood marquetry. Identical to the technique of cloisonné enamel, the motif on the dial is achieved using 110 tiny wood objects set inside gold frames. Hand-carved from pearwood and tulipwood, stained in black or blue and sanded, it took one month for the marquetry specialist to create the pattern resembling the spire of the Chrysler setting up. A gold pearl minutes monitor and 11 faceted diamond hour markers diminishing in dimension as they attain noon – to accentuate the vanishing line – level out the time whereas the tourbillon regulates the movement.

The 18k pink gold case is engraved with herringbone motifs and measures 44mm all through. The model is powered by the sophisticated in-house calibre 2755 with a minute repeater and a tourbillon regulator. Identical to the Tribute to Arabesque model, the 58-hour vitality reserve present is featured on the caseback, and the repeater is activated with the slider on the left facet of the case.

Quick particulars: 44mm diameter x 13.5mm thickness – 18k rose gold case with herringbone engraving – wood marquetry dial with 11 baguette-cut diamond hour markers – manual-winding calibre 2755 with tourbillon and minute repeater – 471 parts – 18,000vph/2.5Hz – 58h vitality reserve – hours, minutes, tourbillon with seconds, minute repeater and vitality reserve – Hallmark of Geneva certification – darkish blue alligator leather-based strap, white gold folding clasp – ref. 6520C/000R-085C – distinctive piece

Memorable Areas

Composed of 4 distinctive micro-sculpted gold dials impressed by architectural landmarks throughout the Far East and Geneva, Memorable Areas shows Vacheron’s mid-19^th century progress in Asia, considerably China. Using a model new technique of hand-engraved dials produced from three golds, all 4 fashions have 40mm diameter gold cases with a slim prime of 9.10mm because of the ultra-thin calibre 1120 powering the watches.

Relying on 19^th-century illustrations, the dials depict the Tour de l’Ile in Geneva – the position of the Maison’s workshops for 30 years, the archaeological web site of Angkor Thom in Cambodia, the Imperial Chinese language language Summer season Palace, and the Confucious Temple and Imperial Faculty Museum in Beijing.

Strikingly lifelike, the grasp engravers first micro-sculpt and line-engrave the thin gold plates (from 0.4 -0.8mm thick) to create the details after which superimpose the completely completely different layers, which takes 200 hours per dial. Throughout the case of the Angkor and Summer season Palace dials, the tree’s foliage has been damascened. Developed as a result of the successor to the legendary 1.64mm manual-winding calibre 1003, Vacheron launched the ultra-thin 2.45mm thick computerized calibre 1120 in 1968.

Quick particulars: 40mm diameter x 9.10mm thickness – 18k pink or white gold cases – hand-engraved three gold dials depicting historic landmarks –  ultra-thin computerized calibre 1120 – 144 parts – 28.40mm x 9.10mm – 19,800vph/2.75Hz – 40h vitality reserve – hours and minutes – Hallmark of Geneva certification – black or darkish brown alligator strap, gold pin buckle – Tour de l’Ile ref. 2000C/000G-106C distinctive piece – Imperial Chinese language language Summer season Palace ref. 2000C/000R-104C distinctive piece – Confucius Temple ref. 2000C/000R-105C distinctive piece – Angkor Thom ref.  2000C/000R-103C distinctive piece

Malte Tourbillon Tribute to Haussmannian Vogue

This distinctive piece celebrates Vacheron’s progress in Paris throughout the early 1820s and pays tribute to the town planning enterprise of Georges Haussmann.

Impressed by Baron Haussmann’s late 19^th-century architectural makeover  “to aerate, unify and embellish” Paris, an architectural Malte assortment case was chosen for the occasion. The 18k pink gold barrel-shaped case is hand-sculpted with motifs of Haussmann’s grandiose construction with a lion and a frieze in champlevé on the case middle and gadroons engraved on the bezel, lugs and caseback.

What’s way more distinctive, possibly, is the reality that the movement is adorned with motifs recalling the metallic buildings of the Eiffel Tower. Engaged on a skeletonised mannequin of the ultra-thin (6.1mm thick) in-house tourbillon calibre 2790 with date and vitality reserve, the grasp engraver adorned the bridges, mainplate and caught parts, front and back. Unveiled in 2014, the tonneau-shaped, manual-winding calibre 2790 provides a view of the tourbillon beating at a sluggish tempo of two.5Hz with its tourbillon carriage shaped like a Maltese cross.

Quick particulars: 38mm diameter x 41.5mm measurement x 12.7mm thickness – 18k hand-engraved pink gold – grained pink gold chapter ring with gold indices, openworked dial – skeletonised ultra-thin manual-winding calibre 2790 SQ – 29.3mm x 6.1mm – hand-engraved bridges and mainplate – 246 parts – 18,000vph/2.5Hz – 45h vitality reserve – hours, minutes, tourbillon with seconds, date, vitality reserve – Hallmark of Geneva certification – brown alligator strap, gold folding clasp – ref. 30135/000R-089C – distinctive piece

Grisaille Extreme Jewellery Dragon

This distinctive piece takes us once more to China, the place, from 1845, Vacheron solid enterprise ties. Adorned with a inexperienced grisaille enamel dial – a main for the Maison – the dial features a five-clawed imperial dragon. Due to the mannequin’s well-known ultra-thin calibre 1120, the case maintains a slim, elegant profile of 8.90mm.

Housed in a 40mm white gold case, the flanks, bezel and lugs are set with 146 baguette-cut diamonds – with out forgetting the inverted brilliant-cut diamond throughout the crown. A unusual methodology courting to the 16^th century, the art work of grisaille produces a chiaroscuro influence and consists of the making use of of layers of white Limoges enamel to a darkish enamel base. Fired repetitively in a kiln, the dragon’s varieties take kind, and the enameller finishes the tactic with an incredible layer of green-tinted translucent enamel to hold out the contrasts.

Quick particulars: 40mm diameter x 8.90mm thickness – 18k white gold set with 146 baguette-cut diamonds (7.10 cts), crown set with inverted brilliant-cut diamond – inexperienced grisaille enamel on dial – ultra-thin computerized calibre 1120 – 144 parts – 19,800vph/2.75Hz – 40h vitality reserve – hours and minutes – Hallmark of Geneva certification – darkish inexperienced alligator strap with white gold pin buckle set with 16 baguette-cut diamonds – ref. 2017C/000G-096C – distinctive piece

Armillary Tourbillon Tribute to Paintings Deco

The ultimate stop on the tour is New York, and as soon as extra, the inspiration is Paintings Deco-inspired skyscrapers. Staged in a giant 45mm hand-engraved yellow gold case with a thickness of 20.10mm, the in-house calibre 1990 with a bi-axial armillary tourbillon regulator and bi-retrograde hours and minutes locations on a charming current. The tourbillon is located on the left facet of the dial and guarded by a domed sapphire crystal, whereas the retrograde hours and minutes are featured on the exact with a semi-circular gold monitor with utilized gold Roman numerals and a white minutes monitor.

Adorned by a grasp engraver, the gold case and the mainplate and bridges of the movement have been sculpted in bas-relief. The black bridges on the dial are adorned with hand-guilloché motifs recreating the radiating, geometrical patterns of Paintings Deco. The reverse facet reveals the engraved bridges with motifs from New York skyscrapers.

Protected by 4 patents, manual-winding calibre 1990 incorporates technical choices developed for Les Cabinotiers Ref. 57260, the world’s most intricate timepiece with 57 issues.

Quick particulars: 45mm diameter x 20.10mm thickness – 18k hand-engraved yellow gold – bi-axial tourbillon on left facet of dial, bi-retrograde hours and minutes on correct – black bridges dial-side adorned with hand-guilloché, hand-engraved bridges reverse facet – manual-winding calibre 1990 – 299 parts – 18,800vph/2.5Hz – 58h vitality reserve – retrograde hours, minutes, small seconds on armillary tourbillon – Hallmark of Geneva certification – black alligator strap with yellow gold folding clasp – ref. 9860C/000J-090C – distinctive piece

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