Special Quai de l’Ile Watch for the Only Watch Charity Auction
Since the official launch of the new Quai de l’Ile collection at the 2008 Salon de la Haute Horlogerie, Vacheron Constantin for the first time presents a unique Quai de l’Ile timepiece, created exclusively for the Only Watch 2009 charity auction in Monaco. Quai de l’Ile, the brand’s historic headqurters in Geneva, symbolizes the traditional watchmaking craftsmanship and the good quality which define the brand identity.
The Quai de l’Ile watch is the first timepiece in the history of Vacheron Constantin watches, the case of which is manufactured from tantalum. This rare blue-gray metal, employed mainly in electronics and surgery, had not been used in watchmaking until the recent years. It is so hard that in order to make the case of the watch it was diamond-cut. The flanks of the timepiece are crafted from palladium, a rare silvery-white metal making part of the platinum group.
One of the particular features of this special Quai de l’Ile watch is its remarkable dial. It is made of different layers with security codings created by a Swiss firm providing brand protection and anti-counterfeit services. The other decorative element of the watch is a metalized sun, a small copy of the one on the Tour de I’lle tower clock where the company was situated until 1874, when Vacheron Constantin moved to the Quai de I’lle building. Other hallmarks of the Quai de l’Ile collection, such as the Maltese cross and the bold Arabic numerals 12, 3, 6, and 9 are produced by a complicated galvanic procedure.
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