Vacheron Constantin Elevates the Overseas Collection, Honors Ancient Empires, and Unveils a Pièce Unique Minute Repeater

For newcomers to Vacheron Constantin, the Overseas collection often serves as an inviting entry point into the maison’s world of sport-luxury watchmaking. The collection ranges from everyday stainless steel timepieces to high complications, including perpetual calendars, minute repeaters, and diamond-set interpretations.

At Watches and Wonders 2026, the maison introduced a slimmer, more refined movement for the Overseas line, alongside a new quartet of travel-inspired watches. Building on the momentum of its Cory Richards limited edition, the series reflects a continued fascination with exploration and cultural exchange.

During the Genevan fair, Vacheron Constantin also showcased the artistic side of its watchmaking with a one-off, intricately skeletonized minute repeater, alongside handcrafted pieces paying homage to some of history’s great civilizations.

Overseas Dual-Time Cardinal Points

The warm reception of the Cory Richards-endorsed Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time ‘Everest’ signaled a clear appetite for more expressive, color-forward interpretations of the Overseas line.

In response, the maison introduces a quartet of 41mm titanium timepieces named the Overseas Dual-Time Cardinal Points, each powered by a movement similar to the Overseas Everest’s—the automatic Caliber 5110 DT/3 with a 60-hour power reserve and a 22k yellow gold rotor.

Its is adorned with the brand’s classic design codes: the rotor is engraved with Vacheron Constantin’s compass rose emblem, while both sides of the main plate are finished with traditional perlage.

This meticulous attention to detail extends to the case components, including the bezel, crown, and pusher ring finished with the maison’s signature matte Titalyt® treatment.

The interplay of finishes continues across the design: a dial combining lacquered and brushed surfaces is paired with hands and indices in 18k white gold.

Each of the four editions is defined by a distinct color inspired by the cardinal points—white for the frozen North, brown for the southern plains, green for western forests, and blue for the vast eastern skies.

All four references are delivered with a matching rubber strap with orange saddle stitching, an additional orange rubber strap, and a titanium bracelet. Each is priced at US$41,000.

Calibre 2550 Overseas Automatique Ultra-Thin

Measuring just 2.4mm in thickness, Vacheron Constantin’s new Caliber 2550 Overseas Automatique Ultra-Thin is the result of seven years of research and development.

Despite its ultra-slim profile, the movement delivers an impressive 80-hour power reserve. Adding a subtle touch of refinement, its micro-rotor is crafted in 950 platinum.

The finished watch measures just 7.35mm thick, making it the thinnest Overseas to date. Its salmon-lacquered dial features a satin-brushed sunray finish, contrasted by 18k white gold hour markers and hands treated with blue Super-LumiNova®.

Limited to 255 pieces, the 39.5mm Overseas Automatique Ultra-Thin is housed in a 950 platinum case and fitted with an integrated bracelet. It also comes with two additional straps—a beige rubber strap and a dark beige alligator strap with a nubuck-touch finish. A boutique exclusive, it is priced at US$120,000.

“For generations of watchmakers at the Manufacture, particularly since the early 20th century, this quest for thinness has inspired numerous technical achievements and led to several records in this field,” shares Vacheron Constantin’s Style & Heritage Director Christian Selmoni.

“Vacheron Constantin distinguished itself early on in this field, notably with a platinum pocket watch produced in 1931 whose movement measures an astonishing 0.94 mm in thickness. This technical feat was echoed in the 1950s and 1960s with the manual-winding Caliber 1003 and the self-winding Caliber 1120, which marked their era with respective thicknesses of 1.64 mm and 2.45 mm. But these are far from the only examples. In the field of complications, the Maison has also distinguished itself with ultra-thin calibers such as the 13-ligne repeater movement developed in the 1940s, measuring 3.2 mm in thickness, and its successor, the Caliber 1731, also a minute repeater, with a height of 3.9 mm.”

Les Cabinotiers Minute Repeater Tourbillon Skeleton

The pièce unique Les Cabinotiers Minute Repeater Tourbillon Skeleton is housed in a 45mm 18k gold case.

Its dial architecture is defined by a circular brushed outer ring, fluted inner ring, and a blue seconds track, all executed in 18k gold, as are its 11 baton-shaped hour markers.

At its core, the new Caliber 2755 TMR SQ draws on the technical foundations of 2005’s Caliber 2750—created for the maison’s 250th anniversary—and 2007’s Caliber 2755, which combined a perpetual calendar, tourbillon, and minute repeater.

The movement’s skeletonization has been executed with surgical precision, carefully engineered to preserve the resonance of its chimes. Vacheron Constantin has also reworked the regulator in the name of acoustic clarity.

This openworked construction reveals no fewer than nine types of traditional hand finishing. Paired with a textured calfskin leather strap, this labor of love is secured by an 18k gold folding clasp bearing the maison’s Maltese Cross emblem.

Métiers d’Art Tribute to Great Civilisations

Just yesterday, Vacheron Constantin unveiled another surprise. The Métiers d’Art Tribute to Great Civilisations is a quartet of timepieces limited to 15 examples each, which celebrate the breadth and depth of the manufacture’s handcrafting capabilities.

Themed on Pharaonic Egypt, the Assyrian Empire, Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome, they employ traditional métiers d’art techniques like engraving, enameling, gilding, glyptics (stone sculpting), marquetry, micro-mosaic and miniature painting.

These intricate dials compose of precious stone, hand-painted and enameled surfaces, and hand-engraved sculptures that have been assembled marquetry-style on a gold base plate.

These timepieces’ open casebacks display an oscillating weight that has been stamped by a hand-engraved image of the Louvre’s East façade.

The beveled and engine-turned surfaces of the Caliber 2460 G4/2 can be admired from beneath this gold rotor. This movement’s base caliber, of course, is the maison’s renowned 2460 workhorse.

These four timepieces arrive in 42mm 18k gold cases with alligator straps.