Vacheron & Constantin Ultra flat automatic
Super flat VC in 18K, full set.
K1140 automatic movement it was once the flattest automatic movement in the world. 1970 classic watch
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Alexander
Im a 24 year old boy who loves old watches. I’m a watchmaker. Best person In my life @danielkr .
Cologne, Germany
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18.00 cm
Serious watchery!
Well... It's VC. There's a reason VC's in the trinity...
I wish they remembered how to make good stuff like that, or that modern clientele wanted it. The clasp looks interesting as well.
Amazing
Just beautiful! And the bracelet, amazing🤩
Very cool and expensive watch!
There's only one Ultra-flat though...says right on the dial:
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Bit of a fan of the Florentine work from VC (my own white gold VC has that on the bezel). I love when the bracelet is integrated with the watch head in that way. Sorry to be boring but that's the VC 1120 movement which is the no date version of the 1121 that I have in my own watch. AP called these movements the 2120/2121 and used them in the Royal Oak as well as a lot of other ultra thin automatic dress watches, and Patek used the date version it in the Nautilus. All are derived from the JLC 920 ébauche that was only ever sold to VC, AP and Patek and never used by JLC itself. It's this movement and some of the manual ultra-thins used by AP and VC that really sealed JLC's reputation as the watchmaker's watchmaker. There was a lot of cross ownership at the time between JLC, AP and VC and to some extent they operated as a form of conglomerate for a while. VC still use this movement to this day as the base to a lot of ultra-thin watches, AP I think have done some modifications in the very latest version of the Royal Oak jumbo and this is now the calibre 7121.
The level of craftsmanship then and now. Who would know where we went wrong🤷♂️
Unbelievable, very nice 👌