Vacheron Constantin takes top prize in Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve
Nov 12, 2005
Swiss Luxury watchmaker Vacheron Constantin’s dual-faced Tour de l'Île, the world’s most complicated wristwatch, has won the L’Aiguille d’Or, top prize in the 2005 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve. The timepiece sold for record-setting $1.5 million in auction in April, the most ever for a wristwatch. The watch was created to celebrate the 250th anniversary....

Features: The Real Deal
Apr 01, 2003
Vacheron Constantin's Le Grande Classique. (Click image to enlarge) The silver lining of this controversial topic is that as collectors’ watchmaking knowledge grows, so does their passion for complicated watches. And if much ado is made of the most tangled complexity and tiniest detail . . . well, these are watches we’re talking about after all. A. Lange....

Time: Anniversary Presence
May 01, 2005
A 250th anniversary is certainly an occasion worthy of a fuss, and Vacheron Constantin is marking the milestone with no shortage of festivities. As one might expect from the world’s oldest watch company, the preparations for this spring’s birthday bash ran as smoothly and quietly as one of its watches. Those efforts culminated in....

Newswire
Mar 01, 2007
Swiss watch exports for 2007 should increase 9 to 10 percent, “which can be considered extraordinary,” predicted Jean-Daniel Pasche, president of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH, in an interview with a Swiss paper in December. He said 2006 was “an excellent year [and a] record year in terms of value [of exports].” He....

Vacheron Constantin: Overseas in Dubrovnik
Dec 15, 2004
The pearl of the Adriatic, Dubrovnik, the Republic of Croatia’s magnificent and ancient walled city, was the setting for the launch of the updated Overseas timepieces by Vacheron Constantin. Chosen by Vacheron Constantin for its beauty and its association with the sea, Dubrovnik is bursting at the seams with both ancient and modern history –....

Icons & Innovations: Audemars Piguet: Great Leap Forward
Jan 01, 2007
George-Henri Meylan, Audemars Piguet’s mild-mannered CEO, says he never intended to supplant traditional Swiss design when he tasked the watchmakers at complication specialty house Renaud et Papi (in which his company had a stake) to “open a new area of exploration” in the late 1990s. But as he stood surrounded by futuristic designs....

The Season of the Watch Awards
Nov 17, 2004
The Swiss magazine "Montres Passion" awarded its ‘Watch of the Year 2004’ award in Lausanne on November 10. The winner was chosen by a jury whose members remains anonymous, except for its President, the indisputable watchmaker, Philippe Dufour. This year the prestigious prize was granted to Chopard for the L.U.C. 4R Quattro Regulator, thus....

The Best of the Best 2003: Watches - Vacheron Constantin
Jun 02, 2003
Even a watch novice can recognize that there is something special about Vacheron Constantin’s 247 with a 31-day retrograde calendar. The platinum timepiece ($29,000) can be interpreted as a single-piece declaration that Vacheron Constantin, the world’s oldest continually operating watch company, is completely up-to-date in its sense of design.....

Magazine contents October - November 2004 issue
Nov 08, 2004
Editorial Two Speeds Cover Story “Ideale” a new chapter in the story of Jaeger-LeCoultre Glamour Women, women, women, women, women, women, women … Audemars Piguet’s feminine side Zenith’s Mechanical Stars Recreating an “entirely and extremely feminine” brand -....

Three More Watch Firms Leave Basel Show
Jun 01, 2001
Three of the world's top luxury watch brands will no longer exhibit at the annual watch fair in Basel, Switzerland, the world's largest watch and clock trade show. They are IWC (International Watch Co.) and Jaeger-LeCoultre, both Swiss firms, and Länge & Söhne, a German firm. They comprise the Les Manufactures Horlogeres group (LMH), which was....