Vacheron Constantin Announces “World’s Most Complicated Watch:” Here’s a Glimpse
On Sept. 17 in Geneva, at a celebration marking its 260th anniversary, Vacheron Constantin will present what it calls the most ingenious and sophisticated mechanical watch ever made. Ahead of the launch, Vacheron has released some preliminary information about the watch to a small number of watch publications around the world, including WatchTime. (It did not provide an image of the watch.)Here's what we know.The watch, which Vacheron says has two dials, has been created entirely in-house by three VC watchmakers, who worked on it for eight years. The watch was commissioned by a prominent, as-yet-unnamed collector. It incorporates, Vacheron says, entirely new and unique complications representing the most significant technical advancements in watchmaking in modern times. The new complications had to be calculated, designed and developed from scratch. Thus a completely new caliber of movement was created unlike any seen before. One of the new complications, WatchTime has learned exclus

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Loving Aruba!! Brought the blue YM with me. Went to the AD at the Hyatt and saw this!!