Even watch collectors who remember the earliest days of the mechanical renaissance may forget that, for most of the 20th century, wristwatches equipped with complications—much less grand complications—were a true rarity. “Very few perpetual calendars were available because they were highly difficult to develop, manufacture and assemble,” says Christian Selmoni, Vacheron Constantin ’s style and heritage director. “And for decades, if not centuries, the tourbillon was kind of a mythical complication. For watchmakers, it was a holy grail of difficulty.” The advent of advanced engineering technology in the mid-1980s, including CNC machines and computer-aided design, allowed more watchmakers to flex their technical muscles, but to this day, combining super-specialized functions within a single timepiece remains the purview of the horological elite. Enter the Minute Repeater Tourbillon Split-Seconds Monopusher Chronograph, a one-off mouthful from Vacheron’s experimental Les Cabinotiers department. Four years in the making, the 45 mm by 16.4 mm, 18-karat-pink-gold wristwatch, introduced in March at Watches and Wonders Geneva ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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