VACHERON CONSTANTIN – New TRADITIONNELLE Gold Collection

VACHERON CONSTANTIN – Hallmark of Geneva TRADITIONNELLE Gold New Collection 2017

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Slate grey faces for the six new models 

joining the Traditionnelle collection

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•             Pink gold cases and slate grey dials

•             Manufacture mechanical movements, manual-winding and self-winding

•             Geneva watchmaking tradition expressed in a contemporary spirit

Slate grey makes its entrance on the dials of six Traditionnelle creations available with 18K 5N pink gold cases. A modern and elegant style for models combining technical sophistication and distinctive watchmaking characteristics, interpreted through a range of varied horological complications.

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A round stepped case, slim bezel and fluted caseback; a railway-track minute circle, “bâtons de Genève” applied hour-markers and Dauphine-type hands: the new models combine the signature characteristics of the Traditionnelle collection. The warm glow of 18K 5N pink gold beautifully offsets the slate-grey shade of the opaline dial, teamed with an elegant black alligator leather strap.

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Embodying a contemporary expression of the grand Geneva watchmaking tradition, each model houses a Manufacture mechanical movement, manual-winding or self-winding depending on the model and adorned with exquisite hand-crafted finishing.

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Showcasing the full spectrum of the watchmaking art, from simple displays to the most sophisticated complications, this line pays tribute to the technical and aesthetic expertise of Vacheron Constantin, enriched by almost three centuries of uninterrupted activity.

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Grand Complication masterpieces

Traditionnelle calibre 2755 and Traditionnelle 14-day tourbillon

Graced with a generously sized 44 or 42 mm-diameter pink gold case, two masterpieces – Traditionnelle calibre 2755 and Traditionnelle 14-day tourbillon – demonstrate a rare degree of complexity and technical accomplishment. The first unites three major Fine Watchmaking complications: a tourbillon, a perpetual calendar and a minute repeater with centripetal flying strike governor.

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The second equally exclusive model also features an openworked tourbillon shaped like a Maltese cross, the Vacheron Constantin emblem, and boasts an impressive 14-day power reserve thanks to four series-coupled barrels. 

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These exceptional creations are equipped with equally outstanding mechanisms in the form of mechanical manual-winding movements developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin and graced with traditional finishing testifying to fine craftsmanship and horological excellence.

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Understated refinement

Traditionnelle with ultra-thin self-winding caliber, Traditionnelle day-date and power reserve, Traditionnelle with simple display – manual-winding or self-winding

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The Traditionnelle collection comprises sophisticated creations as well as simple and elegant models. This new range attired in 18K 5N pink gold and slate -grey tones represents its most up-to-date expression, through an array of watches equipped with classic functions: hours and minutes for the Traditionnelle with ultra-thin self-winding caliber; central seconds, day, date and power-reserve indication for the Traditionnelle day-date and power reserve; small seconds at 9 o’clock and date for the Traditionnelle with simple display.

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These three understated yet refined models are powered by mechanical self-winding movements visible through the sapphire crystal caseback. One of them houses Caliber 1120, an ultra-thin movement developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin, comprising 144 parts and measuring just 2.45 mm thick.

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The line-up of new interpretations is complemented by a final manual-winding variation indicating the hours, minutes and small seconds at 6 o’clock, for an almost three-day power reserve.

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle calibre 2755

Reference 80172/000R-B406

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 2755 QP
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, manual-winding
33.9 mm (14 ¾’’’) diameter, 7.9 mm thick
Approximately 58 hours of power reserve
2.5 Hz (18,000 vibrations/hour)
602 components
40 jewels
Indications

• Hours, minutes
• Small seconds on tourbillon carriage
• Minute repeater

Tourbillon
Perpetual calendar (day of the week, date, month and leap year)
Power reserve indicator (on the back of the watch)
Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 44 mm diameter, 13.54 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell, 

hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Clasp
18K 5N folding clasp
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

Presentation box
Presentation box with winder, delivered with a corrector & accessories pen, magnifying glass and the resonator of sound "La Musique du Temps" enhancing the sound and the harmony notes of Vacheron Constantin minute repeaters

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle 14-day Tourbillon

Reference 89000/000R-B407

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 2260
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, manual-winding
29.1 mm (12 ¾’’’) diameter, 6.8 mm thick
Approximately 336 hours of power reserve
2.5 Hz (18,000 vibrations/hour)
231 components
31 jewels
Indications

• Hours, minutes
• Small seconds on tourbillon carriage
• Tourbillon
• Power reserve indicator

Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 42 mm diameter, 12.22 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 metres)
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell,

hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Clasp
18K 5N pink gold folding clasp
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

Edition
Limited edition of 10 numbered pieces
“Limited Edition” and “X/10” engraved on the caseback

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle Day-date and Power Reserve

Reference 85290/000R-B405

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 2475 SC
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, self-winding
26.2 mm (11 ½’’’) diameter, 5.7 mm thick
Approximately 40 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations/hour)
264 components
27 jewels
Indications

• Hours, minutes, center seconds
• Day of the week and date
• Power reserve indicator
  

Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 39.5 mm diameter, 10.65 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx.30 metres)
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell, 

hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Buckle
18K 5N pink gold buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

Accessory
Delivered with a corrector pen

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle

Reference 43075/000R-B404

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 1120
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, self-winding, ultra-thin
28.4 mm (12 ½’’’) diameter, 2.45 mm thick
Approximately 40 hours of power reserve
2.75 Hz (19,800 vibrations/hour)
144 components
36 jewels
Indications
Hours, minutes
Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 41 mm diameter, 7.26 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 metres)
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell, hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Buckle
18K 5N pink gold buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle Date & Small seconds

Reference 87172/000R-B403

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 2455
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, self-winding
26.2 mm (11 ¼’’’) diameter, 3.6 mm thick
Approximately 40 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations/hour)
194 components
27 jewels
Indications

• Hours, minutes
• Small seconds at 9 o’clock
• Date
  

Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 38 mm diameter, 8 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 metres)
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell, 

hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Buckle
18K 5N pink gold buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: Traditionnelle Small seconds

Reference 82172/000R-B402

Hallmark of Geneva certified timepiece

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Movement
Calibre 4400 AS
Developed and manufactured by Vacheron Constantin
Mechanical, manual-winding
28.6 mm (12 ½’’’), diameter, 2.8 mm thick
Approximately 65 hours of power reserve
4 Hz (28,800 vibrations/hour)
127 components
21 jewels
Indications

• Hours, minutes 
• Small seconds at 6 o’clock

Case
18K 5N pink gold
Ø 38 mm diameter, 7.77 mm thick
Transparent sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance tested at a pressure of 3 bar (approx. 30 metres)
Dial
Slate-coloured opaline
18K 5N pink gold applied hour-markers
Strap
Black Mississippiensis alligator leather strap with alligator leather inner shell, 

hand-stitched, saddle-finish, large square scales
Buckle
18K 5N pink gold buckle
Polished half Maltese cross-shaped

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EDOX – DELFIN Fleet 1650 Edition

EDOX – DELFIN Fleet 1650 Limited Edition


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SAVING WORLD MARITIME HERITAGE

Time is running out for many of the world’s historical shipwrecks.

Hundreds of wrecks around the busy sea-lanes of Indonesia’s vast archipelago, relics of the age when men risked life and limb to bring the exotic riches of the Spice Islands back to Europe, are particularly vulnerable.

Every wreck has its own story, a unique link to man’s seafaring passion – yet due to looting, destructive fishing practices, the ravages of time and the high cost of survey and reconnaissance operations to pro-actively protect these heritage sites, most shipwrecks are in danger of being lost forever. Now Switzerland’s family-owned and Jura-based boutique watchmaker Edox has announced it will underwrite a fascinating project to research, record and protect one such site for future generations.

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Edox and the Arqueonautas Fashion Brand are supporting a joint project by Indonesia’s Bureau for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, the German-based Association for Saving of Underwater Cultural Heritage (ASUCH) and the archaeological company PT Maresearch Indonesia for a survey of what is considered to be the final resting place of five ships of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, the famed Dutch East India Company.

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In the last week of February 1650 the ships, led by the flagship Tijger, left Batavia, the company’s headquarters on the island of Java, for Ternate, one of the legendary Spice Islands of the Moluccas.

The fleet never reached its destination. Just before daybreak on March 4 1650, the five ships were driven by a squall onto a reef off the island of Kabaena in Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia), stranding nearly 600 crew and passengers on the tiny sandbank of Sagori. Against all odds, the shipwrecked yet showed the tenacity and persistence to recover most of the fleet’s cargo and armament – and, faced with being marooned, in the next weeks even constructed a new vessel, christened “The Yacht of Five”, out of the wreckage. When in May a small Dutch squadron arrived to the rescue, they not only found more salvaged goods and guns than they could load into their vessels, but the new ship launched and nearly ready to set sail … .

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The astonishing tale of Tijger and her sister ships might have been lost had it not been for the re-discovery of a diary of the ship’s council in the National Archives of the Netherlands. Guided by the diary, a team of researchers led by Maresearch and Indonesia’s regional Bureau for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in April last year re-discovered what appears to be the remains of Tijger and another, as yet unidentified, vessel.

Edox is proud to support a detailed reconnaissance and survey of the site in April/May this year - exactly 367 years after Tijger and her sister ships were lost.

Says  Arqueonautas  spokesmann Nikolaus Graf Sandizell of the search for the lost fleet: “There is no certainty, there is only adventure. We want this important UCH (underwater cultural heritage site) to be protected and the amazing tale of the events in 1650 to be preserved for future generations, and especially so for those who have a bearing in the events; ASUCH and Maresearch work closely together with the archaeologists of Indonesia’s Makassar Bureau for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, supplying research expertise, logistics, documentation and publications.”

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Edox, too, is celebrating this great adventure with the release of a new timepiece, the Edox Delfin Fleet 1650 Limited Edition (300 pieces worldwide).

The 43 mm watch, which is water-resistant to 200 meters, features a stunning steel case and is a true
revival of the vintage Delfin timepiece collection born in 1961. Powered by an ultra-reliable mechanical Swiss-made movement, the watch has a steel case-back decorated with an historic wind rose that featured in drawings in the documents that led to the last resting place of the ships. Each watch is also individually numbered and carries an engraved inscription “There is no certainty, there is only adventure.”

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The 43 mm watch, which is water-resistant to 200m, features a stunning bronze case, the same material used on the fittings of 17th Century Dutch ships.

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Presented in a hand-made leather travel pouch, the Edox Delfin Fleet 1650 Limited Edition also comes with a vintage heritage leather strap and a bi-colour NATO strap. Edox has been making exceptional watches since 1884 and is the Premium Partner of the Sauber F1® Team for 2017.

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TECHNICAL FEATURES

Model: EDOX DELFIN Fleet 1650 Edition

REF. 88004 BRZBU BUI - Bronze with black dial
REF. 88004 3 NIN - Stainless steel with black dial

Calibre 
Edox mechanical calibre 88
Functions
Display of hours, minutes, seconds, day-date
Case

• Bronze with rotating aluminium navy bezel
• Steel with rotating aluminium black bezel

Diameter Ø 43 mm
Finishes Steel caseback, with windrose engraving and limited numbering.
Water resistance  200 meters / 20 ATM
Glass  Scratch-resistant and anti-reflective doomed sapphire crystal
Dial

• Deep-blue
• Deep-black

Strap
Genuine leather strap or NATO strap with Delfin collection buckle

Limited Edition
Edition of 200 pie ces worldwide. (Bronze)
Edition of 300 pieces worldwide. (Steel)
Presented in its special hand-made leather travel pouch.

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