Vacheron Constantin's Vintage Kicks Watch Review

Vacheron Constantin's Vintage Kicks Watch Review

Vacheron Constantin's Vintage Kicks Watch Review

With 263 years (and counting) of watchmaking history to attract from, Vacheron Constantin required to achieve back only a bit more than fifty years to obtain the inspiration because of its latest all-new timepiece family, unveiled today at SIHH 2018 in Geneva. The Vacheron Constantin FiftySix collection takes since it's template a classic model from 1956, the now-legendary Reference 6073, passing on an stylishly modern twist and offering three distinctive models.

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Vacheron Constantin's Vintage Kicks Watch Review

The FiftySix models have a unique situation design inspired through the Maltese mix, lengthy identified denoting the company, with each one of the curved lugs representing one branch of the 15th-century badge of recognition. (The Maltese mix itself grew to become connected using the Genevan manufacture because of its resemblance to some small component present in historic mechanical movements that helped regulate the quality of winding and unwinding so they can improve the watch’s precision.) The gathering can also be unified by a few additional factors, all directly referencing the 1956 original.

Of these elements would be the box-type crystals that rise well over the bezel, made from modern, scratch-resistant azure within the new models, instead of the plexiglas and mineral glass utilized in the vintage pieces using self-winding movements out of all FiftySix models, including one entirely new in-house caliber, honoring the Ref. 6073 among the first Vacheron watches to become outfitted using this type of movement and also the sector-type dials, with alternating Arabic numerals and baton hour markers within their chapter rings, enhanced with two separate, subtle tones for their finishing.

The Maltese mix emblem also influenced the style of collection’s cases and lugs.

Inside a historic first for Vacheron, the maison is providing all the FiftySix watches both in gold and steel situation variations, although the brand highlights that the latter models won't be missing in luxurious character, using white-colored gold for his or her hands and appliqués. Finally, in a single notable departure using their 1956 forebear, the FiftySix designs include a recessed crown for any more elegant and contemporary situation profile.

These new manufacture movement, Caliber 1326, makes its debut within the FiftySix Self-Winding, outfitted having a 48-hour power reserve and prevent-seconds device for simple re-setting. Like several the movements within the collection, it boasts an exciting-new openworked rotor, made from 22k gold having a frosted and snailed finish, that evokes the form from the Maltese mix similar to the cases do. Like another movements, it’s visible via a azure caseback, allowing the wearer to admire not only the rotor however the variety of other haute horlogerie finishes, including c?tes de Genève, circular graining and snailing. (Vacheron hasn't mentioned this new caliber meets the Hallmark of Geneva criteria, just like the majority of its other in-house movements.)

The watch’s dial includes a double opaline-sunburst effect, grey around the steel version and silver-toned around the rose-gold, featuring luminescent coating around the baton-type hands and hour markers. The Mississippi alligator strap, using its half-Maltese-mix-formed buckle, is brown around the rose-gold watch and dark grey around the steel model and it has a calfskin inner covering and tone-on-tone stitching.

Upgrading a couple of notches in complication, we've the FiftySix Day-Date, operated by the Vacheron Caliber 2475 SC/2, here with the help of the openworked Maltese Mix-inspired rotor, that is fitted having a ceramic ball-bearing rotation system that needs no lube and therefore helps you to optimize the movement’s lengthy-term precision. The dials’ double opaline sunburst effect contrasts using the two snailed counters Body for that day at 9 o’clock, another for that date at 3 o’clock. A hands-type power reserve display joins both of these indicators at 6 ‘clock. The rose-gold model includes a silver-toned dial, the steel model a grey-toned one the alligator straps are brown around the gold watch, dark grey around the steel.

Probably the most complicated model

And dubbed by Vacheron the collection’s “highlight,” may be the FiftySix Complete Calendar, whose movement may be the Hallmark of Geneva-placed in-house Caliber 2460 QCL/1, exactly the same movement utilized in another of Vacheron’s SIHH debuts, the platinum-cased Traditionnelle Complete Calendar, that people previewed in November. The stylishly arranged dial displays the month and day in 2 rectangular apertures at 12 o’clock, the date with a central blued pointer hands on the 31-day scale, and also the moon-phase inside a semicircular window at 6 o’clock. The moon-phase within this watch is notable in required adjustment just once every 122 years, instead of the three-year times required by most traditional moon-phases. Gold can be used for the Arabic numerals, hour markers, and hands, and for the moon disk - and, obviously, for that situation and buckle from the rose-gold form of the timepiece. As with another two FiftySix models, the steel reference is matched having a grey dials and strap, the gold having a silvered dial and brown strap.