One of the best parts about big watch events — especially one like WatchTime New York 2016 last month — is how easily collectors, enthusiasts, and journalists can engage with many of the brands we’ve spent the year reading about. For me, one of those brands happened to be Vacheron Constantin; I often receive the brand’s press releases, and see plenty of articles on its newest watches, but it is not very often that am I able to directly connect with some of the people who run the show, in addition to connecting with some of the watches that have helped build its reputation as one of the top luxury brands today.
Of those watches was the Vacheron Constantin Historiques Cornes de Vache 1955, or Cornes de Vache for short. I originally wrote a little bit about this piece while covering some of the most noteworthy vintage-inspired pieces I spotted at this year’s WatchTime New York, but I thought it would also be interesting to directly compare the watch to its historical counterpart.
The new series is based upon a small production of luxury chronographs from 1955, known as the Ref. 6087 (photo above, courtesy of Phillips Auction), but the reference quickly earned the nickname “Cornes de Vache” for the resemblance between its teardrop-shaped lugs and cow horns (which roughly translates to “cornes de vache” in French). From its first production in the mid-1950s to its eventual discontinuation in the early 1960s, only 28 of these watches were produced in yellow gold, and only handful or so more were produced in white gold. Because it is so rare, and because the 6087 was one of the few water-resistant luxury chronographs of its time (due to its screw-down caseback and round chronograph pushers), it has since become a grail in vintage collecting, often going at auction for over $40,000 when it makes an appearance.
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