The Les Collectionneurs program sees Mr. Christian Selmoni and his workforce procuring classic (no less than 20 years outdated) Vacheron Constantin watches and placing them by way of a restoration course of and at last providing them to the market as soon as once more. There’s much more to this system, which you’ll be able to examine proper right here, however that is the type of fostering I’d like to see from different manufacturers ready to take action. There are very murky waters surrounding classic watches (up and down the value spectrum) today, so a service equivalent to this presents, theoretically, a protected route for would-be collectors to enter the sport. In response to Selmoni:
“There are a number of features which can be obligatory to enter the gathering. To begin with, we’d like the watch to be absolutely authenticated by our archive, that means that we’d like matching numbers between case quantity and mannequin quantity. If we don’t have matching numbers, we simply don’t purchase. If the motion has been modified, and we don’t have a full historical past, we can not purchase.”
Learn extra about this system over at Mr. Porter proper right here, and browse the whole tenth anniversary assortment proper right here. Picture credit score to Matthieu Lavanchy through Mr. Porter.
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