Opinions on the Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921?

It would be so much nicer if the damned dial was straight. As it is, it's a detestable and loathsome novelty eyesore unworthy of the name and of being produced.

I'd really like to hear from the person that wore this and didn't lose their mind. My head hurts looking at the photo. It shows that even esteemed makers are not above using silly gimmicks, and that even well-heeled customers are rubes for goofy stories even if it yields a worse item. You're not a biplane pilot or whatever the silly herp derp explanation is. The type of person that would wear this probably sleeps in a football helmet because they think it makes them Tom Brady. The nadir of stupidity.

I can just picture the nasally pencil-neck latching onto the second-least-appealing person at the party and saying "see, if you were operating a stick controlly thing, your arm would be angled sort of like this... no, like this... well, it made sense at the time. Pretty cool story, right? Right? Wait, come back!"

tl;dr - I hate it. Nice shape, stupid crooked dial.

UPDATE: wait, this is a driver watch, not some wannabe military history thing? Nice, a cabbie watch for people with cars that don't have clocks and are too rickety to steer with one hand for a few seconds. The Gruen Ristside was a better idea.

UPDATE AGAIN: Apparently I knew that this watch was a mototist thing a few years ago when it topped my list of watches I wouldn't wear. It just wasn't interesting enough for me to remember. And it's a bad idea.

Liked it enough to buy it and is my most expensive watch by a good margin. If you want a basic round watch you have plenty of choices, but I like things that look at the world a little differently.

I love both the shape and the dial! I’m not the type to get fussy about the ultimate functionality of my watch, if I was I’d just be wearing an Apple Watch (which I sometimes do). I’m in it for the romance, the story and the lore. Historiques American is something different, it pulls you in, it’s not just another submariner remake. Definitely a grail watch for me.

It would be so much nicer if the damned dial was straight. As it is, it's a detestable and loathsome novelty eyesore unworthy of the name and of being produced.

I'd really like to hear from the person that wore this and didn't lose their mind. My head hurts looking at the photo. It shows that even esteemed makers are not above using silly gimmicks, and that even well-heeled customers are rubes for goofy stories even if it yields a worse item. You're not a biplane pilot or whatever the silly herp derp explanation is. The type of person that would wear this probably sleeps in a football helmet because they think it makes them Tom Brady. The nadir of stupidity.

I can just picture the nasally pencil-neck latching onto the second-least-appealing person at the party and saying "see, if you were operating a stick controlly thing, your arm would be angled sort of like this... no, like this... well, it made sense at the time. Pretty cool story, right? Right? Wait, come back!"

tl;dr - I hate it. Nice shape, stupid crooked dial.

UPDATE: wait, this is a driver watch, not some wannabe military history thing? Nice, a cabbie watch for people with cars that don't have clocks and are too rickety to steer with one hand for a few seconds. The Gruen Ristside was a better idea.

UPDATE AGAIN: Apparently I knew that this watch was a mototist thing a few years ago when it topped my list of watches I wouldn't wear. It just wasn't interesting enough for me to remember. And it's a bad idea.