This New $150,000 Platinum Watch Is a Big Step for Vacheron Constantin

It’s been a busy year for Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin. It overhauled its popular Overseas collection to acclaim among fans, and it launched the North American boutique-edition Traditionnelle Day-Date and Power Reserve we covered recently. And that was on top of releasing the most complicated watch of all time in late 2015.

On Tuesday, the brand is announcing an innovation in its production repertoire: a $150,000 platinum watch that is an update to an elegant, popular timepiece it has been making since 2010. The Traditionnelle Chronograph Perpetual Calendar has won over fans for its complexity and innovation: It shows the date, moonphase, month, and day of the week, and it can even handle the bump of a leap year—all while offering the timing capability of a chronograph watch. (For non-watch aficionados, a reminder: All of this is possible without electricity; the wearer just needs to wind the watch once every couple of days to get all this.)