At a very early stage, the Swiss manufacturer made a name for itself with exceptional striking watches. The founder’s grandson Jacques Barthélémi Vacheron, was himself a specialist of repeater watches before taking the reins of the Maison in the early 19th century.
The firm’s reputation in the making of striking watches thus naturally grew and the most famous collectors commissioned their own models – such as Sir Bhupindra Singh, the Maharajah of Patiala, who acquired a pocket chronograph clockwatch with alarm, date and moon phases dated 1909; or the famous American automobile manufacturer James Ward Packard, who ordered in 1918 a quarter and half-quarter repeating pocket chronograph clockwatch with Grande and Petite Sonnerie.
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