Retrospective: The Historic Timepieces That Inspired Vacheron Constantin's Cornes De Vache

Retrospective: The Historic Timepieces That Inspired Vacheron Constantin's Cornes De Vache

Vacheron Constantin started producing chronographs in the early 1900s, first with pocket watches and later with wristwatches at the start of the 20th century The oldest Vacheron Constantin chronograph in the Maison's museum collection is a hunter-type pocket watch from 1876 that features a minutes-counter and is known to have been sold in the United States In 1917, Vacheron Constantin's reputation for precise and reliable chronographs had reached the US.

Army Corps of Engineers, who were interested in acquiring timepieces for their officers Vacheron Constantin submitted two silver, pocket-watch, chronograph prototypes to the Corps of Engineers Vacheron Constantin received orders for thousands of timepieces from the US.

Corps of Engineers that were delivered until 1919 The latest chapter in the Vacheron Constantin chronograph story is the Historique Cornes de Vache 1955 unveiled this fall Vacheron Constantin's mastery of the chronograph is a fascinating story that started exactly 200 years ago with the deadbeat seconds timepiece and has advanced and evolved over the last two centuries to almost fill a museum with chronographs today. Source