The esteemed luxury watch making company, Vacheron Constantin is the oldest producer of watches in the world today. It traces its beginnings to the work of Jean-Marc Vacheron, a Swiss business man and enthusiastic engineer of luxury watches. His lifestyle innovations in the early days of horological manufacture led to the creation of the first ever complication and his work became the standard by which all new complications to this day are judged by the profession. Vacheron Constantin is responsible for the modern systems and developments of sophisticated luxury horology and is regarded by the public and its peers to still be one of the very best watch makers in the world.

The work of Vacheron Constantin is as beautiful as it is well engineered and examples of the casings and housings of the many watches have become important cultural items, having many places in design museums and collectors the world over.

To this day the company produces highly innovative and intricate lifestyle designs which become the envy of aficionados of the horological world. The Masque series released in 2007 was considered by many the finest examples of contemporary watch making available today. Featuring replicas of a number of Masks from a private collection the timepieces feature these miniatures on the central dials of the watch. In 2003 Vacheron Constantin produced what is considered to be the most complex watches in the world, the Tour d’Ille, a watch which combined 834 separate parts and a massive 16 horological

Editorial | Image Courtesy Of Vacheron Constantin