Good morning watch nerds! This is Jonathan and welcome back to Taking Time.
No, I'm not on a farm or a ranch, and
no this is not a real cow. Stick around and I'm going to explain what i mean by all that.
So, what I meant by that was that I have here
one of my absolute dream watches , I'm almost shaking because we actually have it in stock.
So, yeah, I have here the 1955 Vacheron Constantin Cornes de Vache which translates to Vacheron,
kind of given this fancy name for cow horns. And there's kind of a signature thing here that
plays into the case with the lugs. And I'm gonna explain all of that, but anyways, breaking down
what this watch is actually is, so this is their in-house chronograph that they came out,
that's a historique model. So it's essentially, it's a tribute to a 1950s model that came out in
I forget the exact year in 1950s that it actually came out with, but it was very similar to this.
It was not released in platinum. I think it was just yellow, gold and white gold,
excuse me. And it was around the same case dimensions of being 38 and a half millimeters
a little bit thicker. So this is 10 and a half or 10.9. So it's almost 11 millimeters thick,
which for having an in-house chronograph is just insane. I mean, for the price point
with this being platinum, in-house chronograph 38 millimeters, it's 11
millimeters thick and it's absolutely stunning. You're not gonna get any better. So anyways,
I'm gonna stop drooling over the watch. I'm gonna explain everything. So this has got a
tachymeter scale on the dial. It's got a 30 minute
indicator. So whenever you're running the chronograph, essentially it'll go for 30 minutes
before it's like stop. Essentially, and then it's got a running second hand, I believe on the
left essentially going to the cow horn aspect is the lugs.
So essentially if you take a look at the lugs, they're very different and very unique
compared to any watch that's on the market. So essentially they look like cow horns which I find
actually very attractive. , anyways, again, I'm gonna stop drilling over the watch.
So going to the movement now. So anyways, this is based off of the in-house lemania movement.
That's the 2310, it's the omega movement that was in the moon watch. So we've got a bunch of
omega fans here and are a bunch of you guys are omega fans as well. So anyways, this is
as VAs Ron's signature. It's finished impeccably well with the actual cotes de geneve stamp,
Which is only achieved by having essentially the same criteria criteria for all of their movements
to the same level of finishing across their entire spectrum of what's available in their catalog,
which is extremely hard to do, because this is actually done by, and I will open up the watch
band and yeah, so essentially all of that striping for the cotes de geneve are actually done by hand.
And yeah, it's a in-house chronograph with a column wheel.
So yeah, this is available now SwissWatchExpo.com. Give me a call before I buy this watch. We
have it with box papers. It's in mint condition. Beautiful. I'd love to talk to you about it. Yeah,
like subscribe, comment, tell us about the watch. Thanks.