VIDEO: Inside The Overseas Collection With Vacheron Constantin Artistic Director Christian Selmoni

August 02, 2016

Christian Selmoni, Vacheron Constantin's Artistic Director, has watchmaking in his blood. He's the fourth generation of a family of watchmakers hailing from the Valle de Joux, although when he first joined Vacheron Constantin in 1992, it was as?Purchasing, Planning, and Manufacturing Director. He assumed a more direct creative role in 2001, as Product Director, and became Artistic Director in 2010. Along the way, Selmoni guided many of Vacheron's most critical creative initiatives, including the designing of watches based on the collection of masks in?Genevas Barbier-Mueller Museum, and of course, the development of the supercomplication Reference 57260. In this video, Selmoni discusses the development of the new Overseas line, and how he, and Vacheron Constantin, view it in terms of advancing Vacheron's aesthetic philosophy, as well as the manufacture's commitment to making sure the great skills of its craftsmen are clearly expressed in the watches it creates. For more on the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Collection, click here.Read Jack Forster's take on the Overseas Ultra-Thin, and the idea of a "perfect" watch.Also check out our launch coverage of the new Overseas Self-Winding,?our Hands On coverage?of the same, and our Hands-On coverage of the Overseas World Time.