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Happenings: A Conversation With Christian Selmoni, Vacheron Constantin Director Of Heritage & Style
Talking chronographs (virtually) with Jack Forster.
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Vacheron Constantin's integrated-bracelet luxury sports watch, since 1996. Maltese-cross bezel, tool-free strap system.
Vacheron Constantin's original 1977 integrated sports watch, designed by Jörg Hysek aged 23. Predecessor to the Overseas.
Wristshot gallery from the Horlogeforum Vacheron Constantin thread.
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Talking chronographs (virtually) with Jack Forster.
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Five video stories from HODINKEE readers.
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An extra-precious extension for the core of the Overseas line.
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Variety is the name of the game in this week's round-up.
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Jack goes beyond our atmosphere to provide the low-down on an astronomical grand complication.
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Toe to tip platinum. Even the stitching.
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About damn time.
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A highly complicated sports watch gets an old-school twist.
A new super-complication from Vacheron is a double-sided tour de force.
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Just one button to show you who's boss.
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A unique piece super-complication from Vacheron's Les Cabinotiers.
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Warm and soft like a cozy sweater.
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Two looks, one tourbillon.
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A warm brown dial and strap paired with a pink-gold case.
Four metiers d'art pieces celebrate the denizens of the air.
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Did someone say diamonds?
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It's not 2003 anymore.
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The new boutique will mark a dramatic new presence for Vacheron in New York City.
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Your weekly dose of watches from around the web
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A classic chronograph is now in steel – for the second time.
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Adding a welcome black dial to the Overseas' most travel-friendly offering.
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A watch for daily wear, now with a tourbillon.
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I think we've got a hit on our hands here.
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The strange existence of an untold Apollo 14 watch and the five-year hunt for more information.
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It will be used to authenticate the brand's very special Les Collectioneurs watches.
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The Knightsbridge Mecca gets a special run of 20 green-tinted dress watches.
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A new blue dial for a classically slim perpetual.
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The full story behind this auction season's most interesting watches.
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With a GPHG award, a head-turning, high-complication entry in the Only Watch Auction, and a buzz-worthy, retro-cool release in the Disco Volante collection, Swiss microbrand Furlan Marri has gone from Kickstarter to contender in less than five years on the market. Here’s what you need to know about the company, its philosophy, and what its collection looks like right now. [toc-section heading="Furlan Marri Origin Story"] Furlan Marri was born from a partnership between two friends from different corners of the watch-enthusiast community - Andrea Furlan, a Swiss-born industrial designer plying a successful trade as a watch design consultant for major brands, and Hamad Al Marri, a watch collector and artist from Saudi Arabia. United by their mutual longtime passion for timepieces, the two joined forces in 2021 to launch their eponymous brand on Kickstarter. Its fast-track to success seemed an inevitability almost from the beginning, as the project was fully funded after 35 seconds on the crowdfunding platform, supported by an enthusiastic community of thousands that had formed around the founders. Those first Furlan Marri watches that emerged from the initial Kickstarter kickoff campaign were vintage-influenced chronographs, taking clear design cues from forebears of the 1930s and ‘40s produced by brands like Patek Philippe, Lemania, and Vacheron Constantin. The cases were 38mm in steel (upsized a bit from the 34mm - 35mm norm of the era being paid homage), the dials...
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If you’re new to your appreciation of fine watches, you have undoubtedly read a lot of references to and heard a lot of opinions about watches’ bezels. It is somewhat of an esoteric term but it describes something very simple and essential. The bezel is the front part of the case (often but not always ring-shaped) that frames the dial and secures the crystal. Bezels can be made of the same material as the case middle and/or the caseback, but can also be made of a different material. Here we run down the various types of watch bezels you’re likely to encounter. Polygons and Exposed Screws Watch cases, of course, are not uniformly round, which means that bezels, the front-facing parts of those cases, can also be found in a variety of shapes - sharply squared or rectangular, like the Cartier Tank and Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso (above); softy cushion-shaped, like the Panerai Luminor and Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921; oval-shaped, like the Breguet Reine de Naples and other luxury ladies’ models; tonneau (“barrel”-shaped), like the Hublot Spirit of Big Bang and many Richard Mille models; and a host of others that combine elements of these and other polygonal shapes. The shape that has proven to be the most popular and influential is the octagon: eight-sided bezels have proliferated ever since Audemars Piguet launched the Royal Oak (above) in 1972, and watchmakers have also dabbled in other unconventional shapes: the sharply faceted bezel of the Zeni...
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