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On April 3, 2005, a Vacheron Constantin wristwatch Tour de I'lle fetched 1.56 million US dollars (1,876,250 CHF) in Antiquorum's Geneva auction. [47] [48] On June 15, 2011, a Vacheron Constantin minute repeater pocket watch (1918), which was owned by James Ward Packard, was auctioned for 1.76 million US dollars in Christie's New York auction. [49]
Jean-Marc Vacheron (1731–1805), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, founder of Vacheron Constantin. Josiah Emery (1732–1794), Swiss-born London-based watchmaker, the first to incorporate the lever escapement invented by Thomas Mudge; Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799), French entrepreneur and writer, Paris, double comma escapement.
The Tour de I'lle is a complicated wristwatch manufactured by the Swiss manufacturer Vacheron Constantin. It was released in 2005 in a limited edition of 7 pieces to commemorate the manufacturer's 250th anniversary. [1] [2] The Tour de I'lle wristwatch took over 10,000 hours of research and development.
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[1] [2] [3] The watch was assembled by Vacheron Constantin and introduced in 2015. The company announced that it was the most complicated mechanical pocket watch ever created at the time, succeeding the Patek Philippe Calibre 89, assembled in 1989 and featuring 33 complications. [4] The Reference 57260 took eight years to assemble.
Jean-Marc Vacheron (1731–1805) was a Genevan horologist and a founder of the Vacheron Constantin watch company. He was a close friend of leading Enlightenment philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire due to their common interests in philosophy, science and watchmaking.