Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Bi-Retrograde
The other day, a fellow blogger and I had a chat about the new Urwerk. He says yuck, I say yum. One thing we can probably both agree on is the beauty of this delightful piece from Vacheron Constantin. This watch is known as the Contemporary Patrimony Bi-Retrograde Day Date. It has a 42.5 mm 18K rose gold case and has baton hands, four polished 18kt gold triangular hour markers shaped at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock, and a minute-circle of applied gold cabochons. It uses the caliber 2460R31R7 automatic mechanical movement which has hour, minute, date and day functions. The strap is alligator leather and the clasp features Vacheron Constantin's Maltese Cross which also appears on the crown. A post on the Watch Pro Site shows more pictures and reveals that the price is said to be around 13,000 euros. It's not a big, crazy twirl of a watch like some of the complications we have seen before and will see more of as Baselworld and SIHH approach but if you want a watch to hand down to generations, this is a keeper.
