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  • The Rake

    L’ART DE LA SIMPLICITÉ

    Jun 07, 2019 4 minutes
    by nick scott

    Given a mechanical wristwatch’s propriety as a family heirloom — what is better suited to being passed through the generations than a reminder of the human relationship with time, crafted to outlast its first owner many times over? — it’s tricky to think of a more appropriately named watch than the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony, a timepiece you could CGI onto the wrist of any character in movie history without the blooper-gendarmes getting in a cyberhuff. Fairbanks, Gable, Douglas, Clooney? Sorry, no careless anachronisms to see here.

    Even more impressively, with the latest reboot of its markedly clean and elegant watch line, one of the

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