Vacheron Constantin

From 2007 to 2017, Vacheron Constantin hosted The Hour Lounge, an online forum where a treasure trove of historic photographs and technical details were shared with participants. Although the forum is gone, some materials were saved. I have endeavoured to...  

What an insightful post, I can imagine the amount of work that is behind such an article, I am very thankful for it my friend! Mike

This is based on articles originally posted in The Hour Lounge by Alex Ghotbi, as well as other sources noted in the references. I'm only rescuing them from obscurity.

Ah The Hour Lounge! The good old times 😢 Funny enough I was speaking with Alex a couple of weeks ago. His travel plans are obviously postponed / canceled due to the situation so we could not see each other since quite a while. What a gentleman !👌

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Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you! The first one pictured is an absolute grail - well, to be clear, they all are.

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What a great archive. Thanks for sharing.

The Hour Lounge was an incredible resource. It's always been my hope that at least a few of the most authoritative discussions could be retrieved and shared on a different platform. Some of the threads on that forum contained the equivalent of decades wor... 

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...the first two in particular. I am a sucker for a shaped case and two-tone watches. Heaven for me.

The owner posted this family heirloom on the forum, asking for input as to authenticity. After everyone calmed down, he was convinced that a proper restoration by VC would be worthwhile. Here is the "before" movement photo, a Victorin Piguet ebauche. ...  

But I would be content with one of the 4261 or with that slim pocket watch from 1958. While the other are staggering pieces these would well fit the rest of mostly two hand or two hands and small second collection I have ( but would probably surpass my co... 

I remember a few years ago in THL, you published a very important article about the changes of VC auction results. Unfortunately, when I was ready to study, the website suddenly shut down. Could you share that article?

Can't recall off hand?

You published an article describing the price changes of several references about vintage VC in auctions. I didn't understand it at that time. Dan Shao replied that you sorted out the auction materials

The ranges of models and references within the minute repeater category all produced by one Manufacture is stunning. Thanks, again, Dean for reviving these posts form THL! All the best, respo