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For vintage quirkiness and a hefty dollop of old-school charm, you can’t go wrong with Vacheron Constantin’s Historiques American 1921 watch line. As the name suggests, this year is the centenary of this singular watch with its equally singular history. According to company legend, the watch was created in response to an American customer with a big thing for motoring who needed a watch he could read while gripping the steering wheel of his motor car.
If you can bear to, you may recall that towards the end of 2019 there was a glut of stories in the media heralding the return of the Roaring Twenties. Just as the generation of a century ago spent the decade celebrating the end of The Great War with dancing and democracy, so too were we set to revel in a world rid of post-financial-crisis austerity. Oh, the hope!
No one will need reminding of just how wildly inaccurate those technicoloured visions of our future proved to be. But in anticipating the welcome return of haircuts, and all those pints we’ve not poured ourselves, it seems just about fitting to enjoy the centenary of a watch that symbolises the abandoned spirit of the 1920s. Whether it could one day come to mean something similar for this decade is perhaps one for another day.
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