Vacheron Constantin Historiques watches

Vacheron Constantin Historiques is the brand's heritage collection: modern watches built on emblematic models from its archive. Vacheron Constantin created it in 2006, and the watches are named for the year of the original.

The American 1921 recalls a small series made mainly for the American market in 1921. Its cushion case holds a movement turned 45 degrees anticlockwise, so the dial reads on a diagonal with the crown at 1:30, a layout the brand ties to drivers reading the time with their hands on the wheel. In its current form it comes at 40 mm and 36.5 mm with the hand-wound calibre 4400 AS, and the Excellence Platine has a platinum case and dial in a numbered edition of 100. The Cornes de Vache 1955 revives the ref. 6087 chronograph, named for its cow-horn lugs. The 38.5 mm reissue, larger than the 35 mm original, appeared in platinum in 2015 and pink gold in 2016 before steel, with the hand-wound chronograph calibre 1142; a 36-piece steel version with a grey dial carries the Hodinkee name.

The Triple Calendrier 1942 draws on the ref. 4240 of 1942: a 40 mm steel case with a triple-gadroon middle and claw lugs, a two-tone silver dial and day, date and month on the hand-wound calibre 4400 QC. The pink gold Triple Calendrier 1948 follows the ref. 4240L of 1948, adding a moon phase on the calibre 4400 QCL, in two series of 200 with dark blue or bordeaux accents. The 222 brings back Jorg Hysek's 1977 sports watch, made for the brand's 222nd anniversary, in 37 mm yellow gold with a fluted bezel, the Maltese cross at 5 o'clock and the automatic calibre 2455/2.

The rest of the line is dress watches in pink gold or platinum: the Ultra-Fine 1955 and Ultra-Fine 1968 at 4.13 mm thick, the small 31.2 mm Aronde 1954, the Toledo 1951, and the 39 mm Chronomètre Royal 1907 with an enamel dial, also made as a Red Twelve edition of 100.