Watchonthewrist
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Excellent post .
I really love these retrograde and jump hour displays a lot . Seeing your post makes me want to add a VC asap .
Best of The Hour Lounge: Vacheron & Constantin's Alternative Display Watches
The Best of The Hour Lounge Vacheron & Constantin's Alternative Display Watches Heures Sautantes 1820 Vacheron & Constantin's first jumping hour watch, or heures sautantes , was recorded in the production records for 1820. 1824 18k pink gold watch with ju...
Thank you for this fascinating presentation dear Tick Talk...
Vacheron Constantin at its best. Cheers, Francois
V&C at its best
before "in-house" became the thing, collaborating with the Swiss specialist makers like Niton, Cart and Cottier produced amazing results.
Excellent post .
I really love these retrograde and jump hour displays a lot . Seeing your post makes me want to add a VC asap .
I'd take either one
Like the Ferrari, Sputnik is most attractive for being a disrupter of the theme.
This is one of the best posts from THL, IMHO
And VC is still writing this story of alternative time displays! Best, respo
Much has been added
since The Hour Lounge - worthy of an update to this thread in the future for sure.
Amazing Post. I remember many of these watches when The Hour Lounge was alive and kicking. I recall that the Mercator-Enzo Ferrari was...
shown in confidence for THL members. I think this was a one-off for Jean Todt, then then Ferrari FI Team Principal. Will be interesting to see if ever his VC's come up for auction.
Mecartor let me remember ref 4735 sold on sothebyes on last weekend.
I am not the winner
Not only Mercator shared those iconic lugs with Ref 4735
Two of seven Mercator prototypes came up for auction last year, offered by Jean Genbrugge. While I knew he and his wife Lucie produced the enamel dials, learning that he actually created the sextant design and manufactured a working prototype with a Calib...