For centuries, watchmaking and exploration have been closely connected. As international travel transformed the world, watchmakers developed increasingly ingenious ways to display time beyond a single city.
Vacheron Constantin's Traditionnelle World Time brings that history into an elaborate mechanical wristwatch. Its dial features a world map surrounded by city names and a 24-hour scale, allowing the wearer to read the time in multiple destinations at a glance.
What makes this watch particularly interesting is its ability to account for 37 time zones, including regions with half-hour and quarter-hour offsets that conventional 24-city world-time watches cannot fully represent.
Reference 86060/000R-8985 combines this technical achievement with an 18K pink-gold case and a warm, gold-toned dial. It is a watch designed to inspire curiosity about both the geography of the world and the ingenuity of mechanical watchmaking.
| Reference |
86060/000R-8985 |
| Collection |
Traditionnelle World Time |
| Year |
2019 |
| Case |
18K pink gold |
| Diameter |
42.5 mm |
| Thickness |
Approximately 11.6 mm |
| Dial |
Gold-toned world map with city and 24-hour rings |
| Movement |
Automatic caliber 2460 WT |
| Jewels |
27 |
| Components |
255 |
| Frequency |
28,800 vibrations per hour |
| Power reserve |
Approximately 40 hours |
| Complications |
World time, day/night indication |
| Time-zone display |
37 time zones |
| Crystal |
Sapphire |
| Caseback |
Sapphire exhibition |
| Original-style strap |
Brown alligator leather |
| Clasp |
Pink-gold folding clasp |
| Original water resistance |
30 meters |
| Collateral |
Original Papers |