Exquisite Luxury in a Sports Watch for Travelers: Vacheron Constantin's Overseas Dual Time
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Oct 16, 2007
The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time watch epitomizes the sports-luxury timepiece genre offering versatile elegance and superb finishing details, as well as durability and water resistance – qualities highly desirable in a watch to be worn daily. Superbly crafted according to the lofty standards that have defined Vacheron Constantin for more than 250 years, the Overseas Dual Time watch is proving highly popular with timepiece aficionados, and represents an exciting addition to the iconic Overseas collection.
Crafted from stainless steel or 18k gold, the case and integral bracelet of the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time watch is a masterpiece of intricate hand finishing, and displays sublime contrasts between polished and brushed surfaces. The complex and extremely supple integral bracelet displays links which are crafted in a way that suggests the Maltese Cross, the famous insignia of the brand, a detail also shared by the bezel. Equally compelling finery manifests itself upon the elegant guilloche-decorated dials with luminous white gold hands and applied hour markers.
More than just a superbly designed and crafted sports watch, the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time watch is an ideal companion for world travelers. In addition to a date display and a power-reserve indicator which shows the status of the watch's 40-hour hour power reserve, the Overseas Dual Time also offers a secondary time zone display, as well as a day-night indicator, enabling the user to select the time in a second location of their choosing. Any changes to the secondary time zone indicator can be quickly accomplished via the main winding crown, while the smaller secondary crown enables adjustments to the date display. The movement responsible for animating this highly useful mechanism is the Vacheron Constantin 1222 caliber. Although the caliber has been richly decorated with cotes de Geneve and perlage decorations, its beauty remains out of sight, securely protected beneath a magnetic-resistant soft iron shield, and a screwed down steel caseback. Further evidence of Vacheron Constantin's commitment to produce a no-compromise sports timepiece, the Overseas Dual Time watch also features screw-down crowns, contributing to the watch's impressive 150m water resistance rating.
In addition to the stainless steel versions of the Overseas Dual Time watch with a choice of silver or black dials, Vacheron Constantin also presents this prestigious sports timepiece in 18K yellow gold with a silver dial.