The 'Watch of the Year 2007' Award Goes to...
Vacheron Constantin Receives Montre de l'Annee 2007
On November 1st 2007, in presence of 700 people at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Geneva, Vacheron Constantin's CEO, Juan-Carlos Torres, was honored to receive the Jury Prize for the Watch of the Year 2007. Montre de l'Annee 2007 was awarded to the Vacheron Constantin timekeeping creation called Patrimony Contemporaine Retrograde Day and Date.
High Appreciation of the Jury
Having decided to give the first prize for the Watch of the Year 2007 to the Vacheron Constantin watch, the jury has rewarded and paid tribute to the excellence of the watchmaking tradition respecting the Geneva Hallmark.
The jury has highly appreciated the technical achievement, artistic refinement and savoir-faire continuously maintained by the brand for over 250 years. Juan-Carlos Torres thanked the jury for the award and added he would like to share the prize with all his colleagues, and the company's creative and technical teams in particular.
Watch Powered by Complicated Mechanism
The Patrimony Contemporaine Retrograde Day and Date is a fine creation of elegance and purity. The Vacheron Constantin watch has incorporated a double complication movement that belongs to the new generation of self-winding movements manufactured completely independently in the brand's workshops. The calibre 2460 R31 R7 bears a stamp of the prestigious Geneva Hallmark. It provides hour and minute and retrograde date and day functions.
The 18K pink gold case of the rewarded timepiece measures 42.5 mm in diameter. Its convex sapphire back opens the view to the perfect finishing and decoration on the mechanism that corresponds to Vacheron Constantin's strictest quality criteria.
Prestigious Award
Montres Passion and Uhrenwelt, the two watch magazines give the Watch of the Year Prize at the end of the year. The award was initiated by a jury of professionals relevant to the watch industry. The winner of the prize is announced at a solemn ceremony, a major event of the watch year.
