“Less is more”
Mies Van der Rohe
Most often it is easy to make any object “nice” , filling it with many tricks and added that mask its real essence, creating around it , a halo confusing forms, making it more complex and redundant.
Much more difficult is to achieve the same objective working to subtraction and reaching the purest essence. This process appears to be quite risky because if the basis on which it rests is not in itself excellent, then also the object that is going to impoverish the various accretions risks looking miserable, bare and not “nice”.
The Vacheron Constantin “Patrimony” watch, rewards precisely the simplicity of the forms and returns to the origin of things, where beauty was a symbol of purity and perfection of forms. Nothing else needs, erasures nor stylistic research ends in themselves. The most beautiful and simple representation of time flows in this watch, which puts its essentiality as its workhorse, being perfect and ethereal at the same time.
The case, in the model that we are presenting, is made of 18k white gold with a thickness very minimal (only 6.8 mm), in which a pulsating movement also among the thinnest ever. We speak of the incomparable caliber VC 1400 certified by the prestigious Hallmark of Geneva, which represents one of the major awards with regard to a Swiss. The timepiece is completed with a magnificent Mississippi alligator strap in black and buckle in white gold.
Ultimately, we are talking about an extremely refined watch worthy of the most important occasions that will stand out on the wrist of the wearer, not so much for amazing technical expressions or eccentricities dictated by fashion, but for the refined and simple beauty that now feel increasingly slipping away, but that in some cases able to resurface, leaving us breathless once again.
Roberto Ponte
