More Luxury Brands Open Their Own Stores
May 01, 2006
Continuing a trend, several luxury watch brands recently opened watch shops in major cities. Audemars Piguet now has a boutique on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone, a famous shopping street hosting great names in haute horlogerie and jewelry. Vacheron Constantin recently opened an 80-square-meter shop in Moscow, continuing ties it’s cultivated with....

Magazine contents April - May 2006 issue
Apr 30, 2006
Editorial My time against yours Cover Story Patek Philippe: The long awaited chronograph A fundamental innovation: the “Spiromax®” balance spring Perspectives 2005-2006 Behind the velvet curtain Leading Players FHH: The lofty ambitions of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie Vacheron Constantin:....

Luxury Institute Ultra-Luxury Watches Survey
Mar 08, 2006
In the new world of transparency, the consumer has the final say and in the latest Ultra-Luxury Watches Brand Status Index survey, conducted by the New York City-based Luxury Institute, Franck Muller earned top honors as the most prestigious purveyor in the Ultra-Luxury Watches segment (score of 80), as rated and ranked by America's penta-millionaires.....

Franck Muller earns top billing among the wealthy
Feb 28, 2006
Franck Muller earned top honors as the most prestigious purveyor in the "ultra-luxury watches" market segment, as rated and ranked by America’s penta-millionaires (those with a household net worth of more than $5 million), according to a research firm that studies high-wealth individuals. Patek Phillipe placed second. Vacheron Constantin,....

Vacheron Constantin, Breguet Awarded Top 2005 Honors
Feb 01, 2006
"Year's Best” honors were awarded in the Swiss watch industry at the end of 2005.

Magazine contents December - January 2006 issue
Jan 06, 2006
Editorial Unite for the Long-Term Cover Story Innovation in Luxury & Timekeeping Haut de Gamme A brief visit to Blancpain’s “Farm” The “talking piece” of Zenith In memoriam to Günter Blümlein: The Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite” Jaeger-LeCoultre....

21 Ultimate Gifts: Seventh Heaven
Dec 01, 2005
The Tour D’Ile is a double-sided, 16-complication wristwatch that is regarded as the most complicated in the world. With 834 parts, the Tour D’Ile has all the traditional complications: tourbillon, minute repeater, and perpetual calendar, as well as astronomic functions such as a sidereal display located on the back dial. The initial piece....

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....

NYC gala marks Vacheron Constantin's 250th anniversary
Oct 31, 2005
Luxury brand Vacheron Constantin, the world's oldest continuingly operating watchmaker, marked its 250th anniversary with an Oct. 24 gala at the New York Public Library's Astor Hall, one of 17 such celebrations this year in major cities around the world. "Watchmaking is our passion," said Claude-Daniel Proellochs, CEO of Vacheron Constantin International, to....

First Vacheron Constantin Auction Sets World Records
Jul 01, 2005
Swiss luxury watchmaker Vacheron Constantin, marking its 250th anniversary this year, set several world records in the first-ever thematic auction of its timepieces. The sale was held by the Antiquorum auction house, which auctioned 250 sought-after classic and new timepieces in the Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin held April 3 in Geneva. Among....