Produced in automatic 34 mm and quartz 25 mm versions as well as a square-shaped version, the 222 was made in relatively limited numbers: Estimates put steel production at less than 500 pieces and ...
In 1972, Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak hit the shelves cementing the "luxury sports watch" as a new category, paving the way for the Patek Philippe Nautilus in 1976, IWC's revamped Ingenieur SL the same ...
In the mid-1990s, with nearly two decades of luxury sports watch manufacturing under its belt, Vacheron Constantin—having been freshly acquired by Vendôme Luxury Group (later Richemont)—decided to ...