About Vacheron Watches:
Though the house owed much to Francois Constantin for his tireless world travel to promote and sell the company's fine watches,
it was the hiring of Georges-Auguste Leschot in 1839 which thrust the small family concern into national greatness and a position of horological leadership.
Contracted specifically to develop machine tooling for the precision serial manufacture of ebauches, Leschot would spend the rest of his life as an important part of Vacheron & Constantin.
Before joining the house, Leschot had already spent years working on the development not only of a more practical lever escapement, but one that would be amenable to being manufactured by machines.
Through his position as technical director of Vacheron & Constantin, he effectively turned the company into Switzerland's first modern industrial watch manufacture beginning in 1842. By 1845 Vacheron
Constantin was not only producing its own calibres, but supplying other manufacturers with ebauches and escapements.
Through this time of continual technical achievement the manufacture remained a family business, passed down again to the succeeding generations of Vacherons and Constantins. In the late 1860s the name of the company was changed three times with changes in family leadership, due sadly to the subsequent passing of the last members of the Vacheron family. With the death of the last Vacheron in 1887 the manufacture was incorporated, its name fixed by legal charter as "Vacheron & Constantin." Three years later the company registered the "Maltese Cross" symbol which would in time become their trademark, based in concept upon Maltese cross stopworks. |
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