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Manufacturing Year 2014

Men’s wristwatch skeleton Malte Collection Tourbillon, tonneau shape, 950 platinum, sapphire dial with hour markers and Roman numeral for 12 o’clock, fully engraved skeletonized movement, off-center hour and minute indications, power reserve, pointer-type date, small seconds on tourbillon cage at 6 o’clock, Mississippiensis alligator strap, 950 platinum folding clasp.

• Since 1912, the Manufacture has combined the emblematic curves of the Malte collection with the most prestigious mechanical watches. This collection is named after a watch component that became the symbol of Vacheron Constantin in 1880. The powerful design of the tonneau shape provides a sophisticated setting for the technical excellence of Fine
Watchmaking.

• Such is the case for the horological masterpiece that is the skeletonization of a grand complication movement. Here, the plate and each of the bridges have been openworked, hand-crafted with a precision of 1/10th of a millimeter, then engraved to form a lace of metal where wheels, pinions, an escapement and a tourbillon cage expose their revolutions in a Maltese Cross, displaying the small second in its wake.


• A total of 246 components are assembled in this caliber, which took the Manufacture’s master watchmakers more than five hundred hours to design, model and create alone. Men’s wristwatch skeleton Malte Collection Tourbillon, tonneau shape,
950 platinum, sapphire dial with hour markers and Roman numeral for 12 o’clock, fully engraved skeletonized movement, off-center hour and minute indications, power reserve, pointer-type date, small seconds on tourbillon cage at 6 o’clock, Mississippiensis alligator strap, 950 platinum folding clasp.

To witness the creation of an amazing timepiece, Vacheron Constantin often take pictures of its making of. What could be more poetic and at the same time more tangible than a shot of the watchmaker creating his timepiece? This is the objective of photographs now preserved in the Maison’s fixed imagery collection.