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Issues with translation..
I'm 100% certain that guilloche dials were not ever stamped.
I love these watches more than any other and this was really what distinguished them from their competitors, at least up until 1955. The odd thing was for how short a span of time these watches were produced. The earliest appeared about 1945 and they ended in 1954.
As an aside, I owned what I called "The Marlon Watch", and I was the seller in 2009. I later heard that the buyer was the V&C museum.
Stamped and guilloché dials on mid-century Vacheron & Constantin watches.
My previous post has been deleted; on our moderator Tick Talk's invitation, I give it a renewed try. Reading through the French edition of Franco Cologni's " Les secrets de Vacheron Constantin " (Flammarion, Paris, 2005), I noticed something rather strang...
Issues with translation..
I'm 100% certain that guilloche dials were not ever stamped. I love these watches more than any other and this was really what distinguished them from their competitors, at least up until 1955. The odd thing was for how short a span of time these watches ...
Indeed
The English version of the book also clearly states "silver dial stamped using the frappé technique with applied markers" while other entries on the page clearly reference guilloché . Very strange.
An observation
while the possibility exists of an error in printing, I'm inclined to accept it as written. Frappé involves striking the dial between two dies and the design on the Ref 4733 can be accomplished with this technique by having the raised features impressed f...
possibly Stern Frères
who have been documented as producing certain V&C dials from that period. VC also used Stern Créations more recently, following their purchase by Richemont in 2000. But, of course, there were many other dial manufactures back then.
