Vacheron Constantin

A friend of mine has one from 1998 or so. These are pretty well made. Yours is imo ok but not as good as the first generation The last generation is a watch I don’t like, don’t like how case and strap are attached But that’s ofcourse personal taste That’s

I find it quite puzzling how certain independent, time-only watches, like those from Dufour, demand such high prices. What makes them so special? Is it their polish and finish? Honestly, I'm not as impressed as others seem to be. Sure, hand finishing migh

Well to me it is quite strange that there should be a change of the guard as Dufour's watches are generally acknowledged to have the best Swiss finishing followed by possibly Kari so for me, to see Rexhep leap frogging them both in terms of auction result

Great watch and unfortunately didn’t buy it about 5 years ago when they were for sale between 55 and 60k But today close to 1 million ? That’s absolutely ridiculous And I don’t t like it at all ! This is so far from passion and collecting, look at IG now

but I must say that this result has set the standard since a Rexhep Rexhepi Chronometre Contemporain has succeeded in achieving a higher price than a Dufour Simplicity and a RW Smith Series 1, comparable time only watches but not so comparable when it com

It's funny to think of time-only as the black sheep of the horological herd. But I totally get it especially with expensive watches. That said, I have totally gravitated towards time only 3 handers as the root of my collection. The ability of a watchmaker

 It always makes me happy when, once in a while a talented watchmaker decides to go the Independent route… Why not….Independent watchmakers have always pushed the boundary of the watchmaking design, mechanics and always tested the areas least explored. L

Alexandre Hazemann Signature. Introduction_ For the 7th year of watchmaking studies at the Lycée Edgar Faure in Morteau, we are asked to create a school watch. The subject imposed this year was to create a watch with a striking mechanism at the passage o

The cool clasp of Ted-Lo's JLC Extreme Lab made me realize, clasps are important! Look at the Vacheron Constantin Clasp with the Maltese cross, it's a nice big hunk of metal and it's large and satisfying to see. The Patek Philippe deployment buckles with

I was involved in half-dozen deals of this sort, at a lower level. Sometimes this is bad for all, but I think most of the time consolidation does force some of the more "relaxed" employees in each organization to show their worth or be shown the door. The