Style-- 8 days ago
At £103,000 for a time-only wristwatch, you might at least be wanting a seconds hand thrown into the bargain. But your money isn’t much to do with a mere hours and minutes hand. For a start, there’s over 260 years of continuous, restless expertise baked into every micron of Vacheron Constantin’s latest iteration of ‘Overseas’.
This ‘Ultra-Thin’ super-slimmer of Geneva’s most venerable maison and its most (ahem) ‘rugged’ design isn’t just a watch – it’s an inherently rare slice of horological pedigree. First, the movement inside is entirely in-house: the new Calibre 2550 is an diaphanous automatic engine just 2.4 mm thick, developed over seven years of research and engineering.
It uses an advanced micro-rotor and suspended double-barrel design to deliver an impressive 80-hour power reserve while maintaining an impossibly slim profile. Plus of course, there’s all that 950-grade platinum: dense, scarce, with a highly desirable sheen that jealous white-gold wearers know only too well.
Vacheron Constantin Overseas Ultra-Thin in platinum, limited to 255, £103,000
