Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle watches

The Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle is the maison's line of round, classically styled watches, running from time-only hand-wound models to tourbillons, chronographs, perpetual calendars and minute repeaters. Vacheron Constantin presents it as a homage to Geneva's haute horlogerie traditions.

The line is recognisable by its case: stepped lugs, a slender bezel and a ring of fluting around the underside of the case. The dials pair a railway minute track with faceted gold dauphine hands and applied gold hour markers. The Traditionnelle Manual-Winding (82172), a 38 mm small-seconds watch, launched in 2009 with the hand-wound calibre 4400 and its 65-hour power reserve. The Traditionnelle Tourbillon Chronograph (5100T) followed in pink gold in 2020. Since 2006 Vacheron Constantin has also made Collection Excellence Platine editions: limited variations of regular models with a platinum case and clasp and, typically, a platinum dial.

The time-only core sits at 38 mm. The hand-wound 82172 Small Seconds is 7.77 mm thick, the Self-Winding Small Seconds (87172) 8.02 mm and the Openworked (43178) 6.82 mm. The 41 mm Self-Winding (43075) stays at 7.26 mm thick. The range runs from the 30 mm Traditionnelle Quartz to the 44 mm Calibre 2755 and Minute Repeater Tourbillon, with the 14-Day Tourbillon at 42 mm, the World Time and Tourbillon Chronograph at 42.5 mm and the Chronograph Perpetual Calendar at 43 mm. Cases are pink gold, white gold or platinum, and the Self-Winding Small Seconds also comes in yellow gold.

Limited runs include the 14-Day Tourbillon, 50 pieces in pink gold and 50 in platinum for the Collection Excellence Platine, the 18-piece Tourbillon Qilin Edition with a black dial, the 15-piece Split-Seconds Chronograph Ultra Thin Excellence Platine, and two unique World Time pieces, one of them made for Only Watch 2013.