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Watches & Wonders 2023: Vacheron Constantin Celebrates The Retrograde Display

29 March 2023

In a retrograde date display, the hand does not make a complete revolution of the dial, but passes through the measuring segment to then jump back to the starting point and begin again. Retrograde displays first appeared at Vacheron Constantin in the 1920s in pocket watches. It was not until 1940 that the manufacture produced its first wristwatch with a retrograde date display in combination with a minute repeater, named after the man who commissioned it in 1935: the Don Pancho. In the early 1990s, Vacheron Constantin revisited this characteristic complication in several wristwatches, such as the Mercator of 1994 and later the Saltarello of 1997. This year, the retrograde display becomes an overarching focus point, with no less than three novelties in three different collections...................