Vacheron Constantin Art Déco rectangular - Enamel engraved two-tone dial it wears with the discreet

it wears with the discreet authority of a watch that has nothing to prove — present on the wrist without imposing

the watch functions simultaneously as timekeeper and object

the slender leaf hands

The reference 425 — affectionately known as the "Tegolino

expressed through traditional case forms and the kind of dial craft that requires no explanation

Vacheron Constantin Art Déco rectangular - Enamel engraved two-tone dial it wears with the discreetThere is a particular confidence to 1930s and 1940s Vacheron Constantin that no subsequent decade quite replicated. The rectangular case was the dominant form of the era elongated, architectural, worn on the wrist like a piece of jewellery and Geneva's oldest manufacture executed it with a rigour that lesser houses could only approximate. This example carries a dial of genuine craft: engraved enamel, worked in two tones a silvered centre field against