17 September 1755: Jean-Marc Vacheron, a young 24-year-old watchmaker from Geneva, hires his apprentice in the presence of a notary. This contract, the oldest known document in Vacheron Constantin’s history, officially marks the birth of the watchmaking factory, today the oldest in the world to boast uninterrupted activity. In over 265 years of uninterrupted history, Vacheron Constantin has created a partnership between age-old savoir-faire and cutting-edge technology, aimed at creating ever more sophisticated timepieces. The Maison offers a wide range of movements, from the essential time-only watch to the more complicated, equipped with functions such as the Perpetual Calendar, Chronograph, Moon phases, the sautante Heure, the Tourbillon or the Minute Repeater.
“Do better if possible and it is always possible”.
The words of François Constantin of July 5, 1819