Vacheron Constantin’s Traditionnelle collection adopts a highly sophisticated style with two new models equipped with a complete calendar.
Classically inspired by the spirit of Geneva watchmakers during the Age of Enlightenment, Vacheron Constantin has added two stunning new open complete calendar timepieces to its Traditionnelle collection. The new additions boast a round case featuring a fluted back, railway minute-tracks, and Dauphine-type hands, offering an avant-garde profile across two distinctive versions.
With the new additions, the openworked sapphire dial reveals Calibre 2460 QCL/2, whose mainplate and bridges are highlighted by anthracite NAC treatment, while the triple calendar display, complemented by a precision moon phase, gains in depth through its functional and contemporary style.

Framed by a 41 mm case in 18K white gold or 18K 5N pink gold, the Calibre 2460 QCL/2 adopts a contrasting anthracite grey colour achieved by NAC galvanic surface treatment in a new interpretation that combines contemporary design and watchmaking heritage. The opening onto the movement structure – perfectly visible on both sides of the watch and featuring an anthracite grey colour achieved by NAC treatment – highlights its mechanical power.
Surrounded by a slate grey opaline flange on which a central hand points to the date, the upper part of the sapphire crystal dial features a likewise slate grey guilloché segment as well as applied gold hour-markers. The resulting three-part dial overlooks the sapphire discs providing an aperture-type display of the days and months. In addition, the moon-phase disc, with its two realistic transferred depictions of Earth’s satellite, is also covered by a translucent sapphire mask.

The “openface” design highlights the technical nature of the Traditionnelle complete calendar openface watch. This complication, also known as the triple calendar, indicates the date, day, and month, complemented on these models by a moon phase.
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Beating at the heart of these two new timepieces, the Calibre 2460 QCL/2 with its 312 components, is an evolution of the 2450, the first self-winding movement entirely designed and developed by Vacheron Constantin. Equipped with a stop-seconds mechanism, it beats at a rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour and is endowed with a 40-hour power reserve. In addition to its triple calendar indications, it provides a precision moon phase display requiring only one correction every 122 years.

The caseback reveals all the finishes one would expect from an Haute Horlogerie movement, with a circular-grained mainplate, chamfered bridges, and Côtes de Genève motif. Water-resistant to 30 metres, these two Traditionnelle complete calendar openface models are fitted with a calfskin-lined grey alligator strap secured by a pink or white gold pin buckle.
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