I would say I'm attracted to the combination of materials of this watch. You are right that it appears "bright," although it also seems easily legible. Again, while I wouldn't say open-worked dials are my thing, I do think AP (and VC) do them very well. M

I have never liked these transparent dials like the Patek here. I don’t like seeing the day/months through the dial when they’re not in the appropriate display window. Lange does these dials and some people go crazy about them. I don’t understand it. I wo

Blancpain Grande Double Sonnerie. (Photo credits: SJX) And if I had to choose between Patek and VC I would go for the VC. Not for the sound but somehow the dial and case of the VC speak more to me.

Here are two Minute Repeater Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar timepieces: Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Ref. 80172/000R-9300 - 44 x 13.54 mm pink gold case - Manual-winding caliber 2755 QP ( 40 jewels - 18,000 semi-oscillations/hour - 2.5 Hz) Patek Phil

...I'd still love to have one along with a ref. 47050...

It is wonderful that everyone is supportive of my first Vacheron Constantin. It's always been far out of my normal purchases. Hopefully this isn't my last VC. The quality and the precision craftsmanship is very impressive, further more so considering all

Everything is relative. The contraction of the market for watches is driving makers to contract supply and increaser prices to maintain business profitability. If makers learned anything during the quartz crisis it was that over production and the subsequ

Do yo remember these good old creatures from the early 2000's, when each year we had something which made us dream? This VC Retrograde Date 247 is not the most exciting, but it had something, the open dial at a time there were not so many, these lugs... A