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A real sensation at Watches and Wonders<\/strong>, the world’s largest luxury watch show, Vacheron Constantin<\/strong> revealed the fruit of 11 years of R&D<\/strong>: a pocket watch featuring no fewer than 63 complications<\/strong>! The watchmaker, owned by the Richemont Group, has beaten its own record… and the industry record for a mechanical watch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the first time, Vacheron Constantin was able to adapt its dial to the rhythms of the sexagesimal cycles, the mainstay of the Chinese calendar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t look for the model of this pocket watch with its defying complications in the boutique: it was a special order<\/strong><\/b> produced in a single, unique piece. Its lucky recipient also requested that the carillon<\/strong><\/b>, which has both a small and a large chime, be muted between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Entitled Les Cabinotiers The Berkley Grand Complication<\/strong><\/b>, the model takes its name from its sponsor and American billionaire, William F. Berkley<\/strong><\/b>, founder of WR Berkley Insurance and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New York University. Committed to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics and public life<\/strong><\/b>, he made a donation to the city of Georgetown in 2006 to build the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vacheron Constantin had already chosen to immortalize the customer’s name with the watch’s baptismal name<\/strong><\/b>, with the Supercomplication Henry Graves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n William F. Berkley, a wealthy and loyal Vacheron Constantin customer, was already the proud owner of the previous watch complication record, the famous The Berkley 57260 pocket watch<\/strong><\/b>. He is also the owner of King Farouk, the<\/strong><\/b> 57260’s little “sister”<\/strong><\/b>, which held the previous Vacheron Constantin record from 1935 to 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n \t\tCelebrating a loyal customer<\/h2>\n
The world’s most complicated watch<\/h2>\n