Vintage Vacheron Constantin, Skelitized, c.1980s, 18k Yellow Gold, 86.5 grams, 33mm, Manual Movement, Made in Switzerland
Maker: Vacheron Constantin
Model: Squelette
Year: 1980s
Material: 18K Yellow Gold
Dial: Skelitized
Case Measurement: 33mm
Movement: Manual Wind
Condition: Very good Unpolished condition
Weight: 86.5 Grams
Size: Fits Up to 7.2" Wrist
Made in Switzerland
The dial is typically the face of a watch, what it chooses to show the world: hours, minutes, provenance, style. But here, in this exquisite c. 1980 Vacheron Constantin squelette, the dial disappears, replaced by an architecture of openness. What remains is the truth: a labyrinth of bridges and wheels, beautifully exposed, each gear a sentence in the silent poetry of mechanical timekeeping.
Executed in 18k yellow gold, the case flows seamlessly into an integrated bracelet rendered in an intricate basketweave motif. It’s a design language both of its era and beyond it, capturing the elegance of late-20th-century watchmaking at a moment when craftsmanship was reclaiming ground from quartz-era efficiency.
Vacheron Constantin, founded in 1755, is the oldest continuously operating Swiss watchmaker. And in this reference, you see the weight of that lineage: the hand-finishing, the architectural skeletonization, the confidence to make the invisible visible. It is, quite literally, time unmasked.
There’s a certain irony in a skeleton watch: everything exposed, yet nothing diminished. Instead, like an open-book exam, it dares you to look closer.
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