Messages: 2611 Location: East Coast, USA
Registered: November 2003
Lucky recipient of a work borne from Dean's passion for Vacheron ....
Sat, 16 March 2013 12:37
Hi All,
Our esteemed forum member, Dean, aka need2speed aka Tick Talk, very kindly shipped me a limited edition book he published titled "Annales Vacheron et Constantin, Sixieme Epoque: 1914 - 1938". The book contains a republished copy of a largely unknown narrative written by Charles Constantin, the great grand-nephew of François Constantin.
According to Dean, in the late 1920s, Charles Constantin documented the history of Vacheron Constantin from 1785 through 1914. In 1944, he added another chapter covering the history of the brand from 1914 through 1938 - the "Sixieme Epoque". The earlier epoques (1785 - 1914) were republished in Antiquorum's "The Art of Vacheron Constantin" catalog from November 1994. Dean took it upon himself to track down Constantin's last chapter, and reprint it with permission within an elegant, catalog-style book...
I'm reading it this morning, enjoying this wonderful and fascinating slice of the brand's history as told by Charles Constantin himself.
- Paul Boutros