Our contributor, Kunal makes his top 3 picks from the watches revealed during last week’s Watches & Wonders. Armchair Picks: Kunal Khemka’s 3 of the best from Watches & Wonders 2023 Watches & Wonders (W&W) 2023, just held in Geneva, Switzerland, during 27 March to 2 April, once again saw many of the global luxury [...]

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Vacheron Constantin (VC) has launched several new models at Watches & Wonders (W&W) 2023 held at Geneva, Switzerland. Watches & Wonders 2023: new from Vacheron Constantin These include:  Overseas Moonphase Retrograde Date. Overseas Self-Winding (four-versions). Patrimony Retrograde Day-Date.  Traditionnelle Tourbillon Retrograde Date Openface.  Les Cabinotiers Dual Moon Grand Complication. Overseas Moonphase Retrograde Date VC continues [...]

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We kick off our traditional after-show armchair picks from our writers his year, with the list from our Indian correspondent, Kunal Khemka. He picks his top 3 watches from Watches & Wonders 2022, and shares this article. Armchair picks: Kunal’s 3 of the best from W&W 2022 Watches & Wonders 2022 was just held in [...]

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We continue with Kunal Khemka telling us stories from his home in India with a presentation of the Bangalore Watch Company Cover Drive The Outfield, in a matte green dial. In traditional British English, the phrase “it’s just not cricket” is used to say that something is unfair or dishonest. Here we use it in [...]

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Here is our Reader Contribution to round up the “Best of” series on Watches and Wonders 2021. Kunal Khemka picks his top 5. The best from Watches and Wondere 2021 – a collector’s top 5 picks Watches & Wonders (W&W) 2021 was held purely as a Digital Event. While the ‘human interaction’ which defines these [...]

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Successfully competing in ‘Luxury Sports Timepieces’ as a category is a desire for many watch brands today. For Vacheron Constantin, its family of Luxury Sports Timepieces is called ‘Overseas,’ and it is vital to their their storied history and collection. Here is our insider take at the collection. It was initially conceived as the “222” [...]

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Our Indian correspondent Kunal Khemka tells the story of the Bangalore Watch Company, and discusses its place in horology. India is no stranger to Horology and Watchmaking. Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipurcommissioned five Sundials – ‘Jantar Mantars’, completed between 1724 and1735 in the Indian cities of New-Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura, and Varanasi. During Colonial [...]

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The Collector’s View: Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Manual Winding: Kunal Khemka talks about his first love, why he bought it, and 9 years on, why he is still deeply in love. Our review with the watch in the new 2017 slate grey dial is found here. I remember the moment vividly. It was 18th January 2009, [...]

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A personal story of how a collector discovered the Lange 1 and written as a tribute to the iconic watch’s 25th Anniversary. I discovered A. Lange & Sohne in a Zurich hotel room. It was sometime in mid-September 2001 (few days after 9/11). I was flying from my hometown – Kolkata, India to Warsaw, Poland, [...]

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We continue our Vertical Collection Series with a guest contribution from Kunal P. Khemka. Kunal is a passionate collector of Vacheron Constantin, and we present his selection of the three essential watches from VC. The concept of Vertical and Horizontal Collection are used in Wine as a tasting methodology. In the former, same type of [...]

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