Vacheron Constantin, the 250 year old renowned Swiss watch company, has introduced a new dimension in Haute Horlogerie with the launch of their Quai de L'Ile line. This new line offers customers a revolutionary creation as it combines unique customisation with state of the art technology. 

Vacheron Constantin believes that personalisation is the ultimate expression of luxury. Based on this notion, Vacheron Constatin are allowing customers the freedom to create their own unique timepieces.

You can alter four elements of the watch - the seven-piece case and middle, the dial, the movement finishing and the strap.

Though the Quai de I'ille line will be launched in two main standard models - the Quai de I'lle Date Self-winding and the Quai de I'lle Day-Date and Power Reserve Self-winding - the templates can be tweaked to suit your own individual taste.

Personalisation starts with the case where customers can choose from a choice of three metals: pink gold, titanium and palladium.

Any combination of these metals can be chosen for three components of the watch: the heart of the case, the bezel, the lateral flanks and support plate.

This is made possible because of the mastery of the construction which is designed in seven parts thus providing 400 different combinations that a customer could choose from.

The strap can also be elegantly suited to your taste as one can choose between two types, either one in black or dark brown, hand stitched in either saddle-finish or alligator leather, or for a more refined look you could go for a dark brown or either black vulcanised rubber.

Technological revolution

Taking security to a whole different level - for the first time in history, a watch has the same security-printing techniques as bank notes in Switzerland. Hence their is no need to worry about forgery or counterfeiting; this classic could never be reproduced.

Vacheron Constantin called on the services of Mr Roger Pfund, an internationally acclaimed Swiss designer, who has produced the graphics of many bank notes, both Swiss and foreign, and the present Swiss passport. Together, Vacheron Constantin and Mr Pfund have produced some of the safest dials ever made, adding an extra sense of prestige to the watch.

Pushing the limits of security, if complete protection against counterfeiting is not enough, the timepiece comes with a Vacheron Constatin passport.

This passport is in line with the quality of the Swiss passport as it uses the same printing and security procedures used with real passports.

The Quai de I'Ile passport is a unique document issued individually for each watch manufactured by the Vacheron Constantin Manufacture and must be presented by the client whenever it may need servicing. The format, binding, type of paper (which is very special and unavailable in shops) is similar to the very latest type of identity document.

The passport authenticates its timepieces by using three distinct and inseparable numbers, which together identify the watch. Hence, Vacheron Constantin has made sure this timepiece is an 'orginal' in ever sense, personal and secure.
 
Combining art with avant-garde technologies, the ultra-cool semi transparent dials are striking with deep contours.

Alternating between visible and invisible elements, precision markings and micro-printing, there is nothing remotely similar with the dial of an ordinary watch.

The dials on both models in the new line are illuminated by the sun, also produced by the metallization process. It is inspired by the clock on The Tour de I'lle in Place Bel-Air in the Saint Gervais district of Geneva. At one point, all watchmakers on the square set their watches and clocks by it.

Three dial finishes are offered on all Quai de I'lle versions:

Grey - dark dial with a rhodium-plated movement
White - light dial with a rhodium-plated movement
Black - dark dial with a ruthenium movement  

Foresight 
 
Vacheron Constatin has not left anything untouched; the watch also comes with a hip product package. Along with your timepiece, you can get a USB key with handy instructions for use such as maintenance tips and a presentation by the manufacturer. To keep your 'original' timeless tools, a mircofiber cloth and corrector pencil have also been artfully provided in the package.
 
Sincerely keeping to their motto, "Do better if possible, which is always possible", these watchmakers are definitely making waves in the world of Haute Horologie by introducing exciting new possibilities by linking better service with personalisation into watchmaking.  
 
Specks

Movement for Day-Date and Power Reserve:

Self-winding mechanical
2475H410SC-1 rhodium-plated
2475H410SCRU-1 ruthenium-plated
Geneva Hallmark

Movement for Date Self-winding:

Self-winding mechanical
2460H410QHB rhodium-plated
2460H410QHN ruthenium-plated
Geneva Hallmark

Jewelling:27 rubies

Frequency: 28,800 vibrations/hour

Power reserve: Approximately 40 hours

Case: Palladium 950, 18K  5N pink gold or grade 2 titanium, Diameter 41mm, Screw-down back with sapphire crystal

Water-resistance: 3 ATM,equivalent to a depth of 30 metres

Strap: 18K 5N pink gold and 950 palladium versions: black or brown hand-stiched, saddle finish, square-scaled and high shiny alligator leather, Grade 2 titanium version: black vulcarbonized rubber

Clasp: 950 palladium, 18K 5N pink gold or grade 2 titanium triple-blade folding clasp, polished half Maltese cross