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Vacheron Constantin has marked the centenary of its American 1921 model by challenging its own watchmakers to build an exact replica of the iconic model using traditional techniques.
The new “piece unique” is a recreation of the only original example of the model made in 1921 and held in Vacheron Constantin’s own private collection of 1,400 timepieces. The original watch was one of only 24 produced that year.
Watchmakers from the brand’s restoration and heritage departments started the process of reverse engineering by stripping down the original watch to record its dimensions and trawling through the archives to study the techniques that would have been used to create the watch exactly 100 year ago.