Maison 45 of 100 · Haute Horology
Vacheron Constantin
The reading
270 years of uninterrupted production. Overseas is the sport-elegant answer to Nautilus and Royal Oak; Les Cabinotiers is the one-off cathedral. Richemont’s most patrimonial watch maison.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1755
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- Richemont
- Signature
- Overseas / Patrimony
The figure, and where it comes from
Founded 1755 — the oldest watch manufacture in continuous operation, by the house’s own account.
Source: Vacheron Constantin (house account), House history.
This claim was re-checked against the publisher named above on 2026-09-23, and it is held in this build’s claims ledger as vacheron-oldest.
How the register places it
Its stablemates here are Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Buccellati, Jaeger-LeCoultre, A. Lange & Söhne, and two more — nine Richemont houses in all. It is one of sixteen maisons filed here from Switzerland, the third-largest national group in the register. Of the eighteen houses filed under Haute Horology, it is the 5th. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 4th.