Vacheron Constantin Patrimony World Time Excellence Platine
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Vacheron Constantin Patrimony World Time Excellence Platine

By amanico · Sep 2, 2014 · 12 replies
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This new Patrimony will be unveiled at the next Watch and Wonders, in HK, in a few weeks. Well, new, not really, as a Patrimony World Time in platinum was offered at the 2013 Only Watch, but with a different dial. The piece unique: Now, the Excellence Platine, limited to 100 pices. The case is the

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This new Patrimony will be unveiled at the next Watch and Wonders, in HK, in a few weeks.

Well, new, not really, as a Patrimony World Time in platinum was offered at the  2013 Only Watch, but with a different dial.

The piece unique:

 

Now, the Excellence Platine, limited to 100 pièces.

 

The case is the same, 42, 5 mm big, 11, 62 mm high. Which, on the paper, seems to be well balanced in the proportions.

Still, I would have preferred a more refined case, in the purest Vacheron Constantin Tradition... Exquisite, delicate, elegant.

This one is quite bold, as I could check it when the rose gold version was born, a few years ago.

I have the same problem with the movement, which I don't find really appealing.

The dial?

Made of sapphire ( the part bearing the cities of the world ) and platinum ( the rest of the dial ), it looks  very understated, cold. The Only Watch version had more life with its red accents. The dial of the rose gold version too.

Some will like, others won't... Very subjective.

To be seen in the flesh, or on better pictures, before any final judgement. But my first feeling is so so...

A good point to offer the world time in white metal, though.

What's your take?

Best,

Nicolas
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GL
GLau
Sep 2, 2014
Hi Nico, I find this new piece a bit too...

boring without some color scheme on the dial. Thanks for sharing Gordon

AM
amanico
Sep 2, 2014
That is my first feeling, but I will wait to see it in the real, before any definitive

Opinion... Thanks for your feedback, Gordon. Nicolas

IK
ik2000
Sep 2, 2014
I guess the beauty is that we are all different!

I actually really like the new version. I appreciate a lot what VC have done with this watch, as I constantly travel to timezones which have 30 min time differences (i.e. India), so I appreciate a true world timer than can cover all the timezones (it also adjusts for summer time if I am correct). That being said, to fit 37 timezones requires a very complicated/busy looking dial (as expected!) and my issue with the RG version, and the blued world time, was that there was just too much going on. I

AM
amanico
Sep 2, 2014
Yes, please, give us your impressions when you see it in the flesh. Thanks for your view. [nt]

DO
docsnov
Sep 3, 2014
As an owner of the rose gold version

of this watch, I am biased but I like my version better than this iteration. Throw out the rose gold preference as personal taste, but then I will defend the original model on the merits I think it has. One, I think the red lettering for the cities whose time zones are on a quarter, half, or three quarter hour time difference is attractive but also functional in that it helps the wearer to more easily read the cities as there are 37 on the dial. Two, the longitude latitude lines are not really f

AM
amanico
Sep 3, 2014
Thanks for your feedback, Stewart. I do hope that issues are over, now! [nt]

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