Vacheron Constantin

While the platinum remains my favorite, I cannot deny some charm to the rose gold: 



My favorite, from 2016: 

This movement is hand finished, correct?....

Those bevels definitely looked hand finished with a dremel tool. Light internal angles on the bearing adjacent to the balance coq. All of the screws including the ratchet wheel are beautifully black polished and the main-plate is adorned with perlage. Cote De Geneve befitting of that Geneva Seal. Overall, a well finished movement which imo is of a *slightly* higher standard than your average Patek. Though you can get much better from independents at this price or get a Lange (if you like the hand engraving).

VC does inside corners on the anglage. To my knowledge this cannot be done by a machine.

Yeah the internal angles are a dead giveaway, but also the roundness of the bevelling and it's wideness indicate the type of polishing. Machine anglage tends to be flat and also less shiny as it's not polished as thoroughly. The best I've seen is in Grand Seiko's new 9RA2 movement which they somehow managed to achieve nicely polished, rounded anglage with a machine...classic Grand Seiko.

Now call me old fashioned but VC should be focusing a lot more on those than sports steel. I know it’s the latter that brought them to over a billion in sales but there are alternative positions in a market 🤷🏻‍♂️

Better also than the Excellence Platine they launched 2 or 3 years ago.
An iconic Vacheron.

Since I’m usually in casual attire, I’m looking at the white gold iteration. Until last month, I could never compare both sizes side by side. For some reason, I was leaning more towards the larger 40mm edition:

The white gold version is the one I'll be getting as well. I likewise wear business casual clothing far more than anything else, so it's the most adaptable version in that context, and needles to say costs considerably less than the phenomenal platinum version.... Thanks for the excellent wristshots! Cheers, Filip