Vacheron Constantin

respo
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Great post and a nice fantasy

We might add the Saltarello as another chapter in the cushion-shaped VCs from around the time of the Medicus Chronograph.  I should really post this over on this week's Wrist Scan ("Someone else's watch, someone else's wrist") since this is indeed someone else's watch (I think Mike might actually be afraid to wear this one around me now) and I would very much like it on my wrist. ;-)

Obviously I, too, have a soft spot for cushion-shaped watches given my perennial favorite, the American 1921. Which brings me to the hopeless fantasy of being content with just two VCs. 

I went down that slippery slope first with the classic, dressy American 1921 paired with the elegant, sporty, ready-for-anything Overseas, thinking, "Yes, this could be my perfect two-VC collection." And yet I keep finding reasons why I "need" to add another and then another Vacheron.  One has to have an ultra-thin, and nobody does squelette quite like VC so at least one of those is necessary, and VC has such a rich history in alternative time displays, there are avant garde shapes, haute complications, artistic dials -- and then there are the special calibers that one must have.  And so on and so forth. 

Two Vacheron Constantins?  As you and Radek so eloquently put it:  "Yeah, right."  ;-)

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respo