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Did you say "Cornes de Vache" ?
When it comes to cow horn lugs, there's a little more than Vacheron's vintage ref. 6087 or modern reedition (ref. 5000H).
And even the legendary ref. 6087 is more multifaceted than one could think.
Let's dive in!
Best to you all.
A/ LeCoultre Chronograph
credit: windsor jewelers, monaco legend auctions & hodinkee
B/ Vacheron Constantin Chronograph ref. 6087
1/ Arabic 6 & 12 with telemeter scale
credit: goldammer & hairspring
2/ Roman VI & XII with telemeter scale
credit: haute horlogerie & christie’s
3/ Arabic 6 & 12 without scale
credit: phillips & hodinkee
4/ Markers without scale
credit: swisswatches magazine
credit: phillips & hodinkee
4/ Markers without scale
credit: swisswatches magazine
C/ Vacheron Constantin Chronograph ref. 5000H ("Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955")
1/ Wei Koh's bespoke yellow gold piece unique from Atelier Cabinotiers with smoked silver dial, pulsometer scale & round applied indexes
credit: Wei Koh
2/ Platinum ref. 5000H/000P-B058
3/ Rose gold ref. 5000H/000R-B059
4/ Steel Hodinkee edition with pulsometer scale ref. 5000H/000A
5/ Steel regular model ref. 5000H/000A-B582
credit for the platinum, rose gold, Hodinkee and regular steel variants: hodinkee (1, 2, 3, 5, 6) & swiss watches magazine (4, 7, 8)
D/ Vacheron Constantin ref. 4298 (time only with small seconds)
credit: @ericmwind & sabiwatches
E/ Vacheron Constantin ref. 4308 (time only)
credit: hodinkee and stetz & co
Wei Koh unboxes his bespoke piece unique
Did you say "Cornes de Vache" ?
When it comes to cow horn lugs, there's a little more than Vacheron's vintage ref. 6087 or modern reedition (ref. 5000H). And even the legendary ref. 6087 is more multifaceted than one could think. Let's dive in! Best to you all. A/ LeCoultre Chronograph ...
I love rose gold
But the platinum CdV is special. I got a chance to play with it a few years back and was surprised at how small and delicate it felt in person, a real gem!
The platinum version is certainly special.
And it has this wonderful dial with blue tachymeter scale, which thankfully the rose gold has too. The warmth of rose gold just feels better to me but it’s very personal.
Colored gold can be ostentatious
(in particular when there’s a bracelet) but it can also embody classicism and tradition in a very simple and discreet way. At least it’s how it feels to me…
Quite some references with the CdV lugs 👌🏻👍🏻
Thanks for collating them here - great to have an overview 👏🏻🙌🏻
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean.
Who is "they" (which ones)? And what do you mean by "basically exact" (do you mean that they look exactly the same)?
Yes, the LeCoultre and VC case and lugs (not dials) that you showed in the side by side picture.
I thought the CdV case/lugs (or more specifically the lugs) was purely VC’s design, but clearly that’s not the case. It made me wonder who first came up with the design. Very educational post.
As far as I've understood,
the LeCoultre and VC share exactly the same case made by Dubois & Cie, as is stated in this article by Marcus Siems . But I ignore who's responsible for the design... Best.