For 2020, Vacheron Constantin takes inspiration from the hip guys in town but in a predictably “Traditionnelle” package. In recent years, the most popular Swiss-made tourbillon chronograph watch talked about by the collector community was produced by TAG Heuer. Indeed, the Heuer 02-T movement is a high-performing Swiss-made automatic chronograph tourbillon starting at less than $20,000. This year, Vacheron Constantin gets in the game with the Tradionnelle Tourbillon Chronograph… and they added a zero to the aforementioned price.
That said, it isn’t that you can’t find some interesting chronograph tourbillon watches on the market that are more retro in flavor. For me, kopioita Vacheron Constantin kelloista some of the best examples have been produced by German A. Lange & Sohne (that shares the same parent company as Vacheron Constantin). The 2020 Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Tourbillon Chronograph marries a chronograph and tourbillon complication for the first time I can recall in a series production watch from the brand. It uses an existing movement architecture but for a new mechanism that looks to be a real winner on the wrist.
The movement is the in-house-made Vacheron Constantin caliber 3200 — a Seal of Geneva-certified mechanism. The movement is fake vacheron constantin watch manually wound with 65 hours of power reserve operating at a relatively timid 2.5Hz. This slower operating frequency does have an advantage, that being a very beautiful heartbeat animation within the spinning tourbillon carriage. The real value for collectors in a watch such as this is that they get to marry the visual appeal of watching a finely finished large-diameter, slower-beat tourbillon with the tactile experience of winding the mechanism (as prescribed by the power-reserve indicator) and cycling through the chronograph operations via the mono-pusher-style button placed in the crown stem. Yes, in other words, this watch is a supremely elegant toy to calm anxious eyes and fidgety hands.