Vacheron Constantin

I have a confession to make to you, my fellow Vachonistas; I am a hoarder! Thankfully not the kind who lives in a house jammed to the ceiling with mouldy newspapers and stinking of cat pee; I am an information hoarder. When the The Hour Lounge, the offici...  

Thanks ++++++ Dean for this review of the very Best VC repeater pocket watches. A festival for our eyes and also to be signed up for the next new generation of VC aficionados. You are a PERFECT VC moderator.

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So happy someone saved some of those amazing posts and that the knowledge shared was not all lost! Thank you Dean! Great write-up and looking to read more of these and your other invaluable insights here! All the best, Walid

will have a new edition

Thanks for being a hoarder 😉! All the best, Walid

when everyone realized the old Hour Lounge was taken offline. For a short while one could find some text using the internet archive wayback machine, but images had been scrubbed away. I now understand it was so they could appear "fresh" on IG later.

Please keep them coming.

The signature watches like Farouk and Fouad have more details about movements on the 'net. The Boisrouvray build sheet was absolutely fascinating. The blanc was sourced from Victorin Piguet in 1914 and they continued to develop the watch from 1929-38! I w...  

Sorry for the late reply, I've just finished clean-up chores after our camping trip. Spring is an amazing time to be in the wilds, a little skiff of fresh snow revealed we were sharing the trail with a bear! A little later, in a meadow, we found the remai...  

Constantin went on to record a visit to the Geneva shop in 1929: In our shop we had the satisfaction of supplying a most complex watch to the Swiss colony in Egypt who offered it to His S.M. (Serene Majesty) King Fouad the First, as a souvenir of his trip...  

King Fouad's son and heir, King Farouk is only briefly mentioned in the Annales of V&C, in this 1937 entry: In spring the visit from King Farouk and his Queen Mother from Egypt, who made some purchases, gave us excellent publicity from the media. This...  

VC also featured this watch recently as part of the back-story to their modern marvel, the Ref 57260. Alas, no mention of Victorin Piguet. Here is a snip from VC's website: Vacheron Constantin image Count Guy de Boisrouvray (1948) This exquisite keyless p...  

Why, I wonder? ...  

next one is tomorrow ;-)

Thank you for hoarding and sharing these once again. It is so nice to see so many images of these striking marvels that I remember seeing a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I look forward to the next and subsequent installments, and it is so good ... 

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