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Jamie Weiss
Watchmakers love celebrating anniversary years, however not all anniversaries are as significant as others. 2025, nevertheless, marks Vacheron Constantin’s 270th anniversary, with the esteemed model being the oldest repeatedly working watchmaker on the earth. Fittingly, 2025 has seen some severe horological celebrations debuted by the Maison – together with a revived 222 in stainless-steel, probably the most difficult wristwatch ever made, and particular hand-guilloché anniversary dials coming into the vary.
Vacheron Constantin can also be marking its 270th yr with ‘The Quest: 270 years of in search of excellence’, a brand new public exhibition happening in main cities world wide that commemorates the Maison’s practically three centuries of being on the pinnacle of mechanical watchmaking – and it’s made its method Down Below, showing within the coronary heart of Sydney.
Hosted in Machine Corridor, a previously disused industrial constructing that’s been remodeled into one in all Sydney’s most spectacular occasion areas, Vacheron Constantin has taken benefit of Machine Corridor’s excessive ceilings and expanses to craft a very quest-like journey into the center of what makes VC such a compelling model. As you enter by the Maltese Cross-adorned doorways, a dramatic ceiling-length artwork piece invitations you down into the depths of the corridor, with the exhibition divided into 4 areas: The Starting, Creative Crafts and Finishes, Excessive Watchmaking and The Quest.
Descend down the spiral staircase and also you’ll be met with an actual deal with: an array of traditionally vital Vacheron Constantin timepieces that had been final exhibited at Watches and Wonders Geneva. Some highlights of those embody an ultra-thin “Disco Volante” pocket watch from 1959; two Nineteenth-century pocket watches, one extremely difficult calendar mannequin and one other beautiful flinqué dial leaping hours instance; in addition to items from 2024’s Métiers d’Artwork Legend of the Chinese language Zodiac 12 months of the Snake assortment.
After all, there’s additionally loads of trendy high-end Vacheron Constantin watches available, too, together with the brand new Traditionnelle Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar, each variations of the Abroad Perpetual Calendar Extremely-Skinny Skeleton, in addition to the in-demand Historiques 222.
For many who aren’t dyed-in-the-wool watch nuts, there’s nonetheless lots to take pleasure in on the exhibition. One show that basically stood out to me was a 3D cutaway breakdown of the Les Cabinotiers Berkley Grand Complication’s calibre 3752, probably the most difficult watch motion on the earth, boasting 63 problems. Visualising every layer of this groundbreaking timepiece’s motion, displaying simply how complicated it’s… There’s few higher methods to exhibit how singular Vacheron Constantin is.
Vacheron Constantin’s ‘The Quest: 270 years of in search of excellence’ exhibition is open to the general public from Wednesday, eleventh June to Friday, thirteenth June 2025 at Machine Corridor, 183-185 Clarence Avenue, Sydney NSW 2000. Opening hours are from 11 AM to six PM (final entry is at 5 PM). Entry is free – all it’s important to do is register on-line right here. Whether or not you’re a VC aficionado or a novice eager to be taught extra about watchmaking from among the finest within the recreation, it’s one thing you don’t need to miss out on.
