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Three heritage documents, and what each one is not

Vacheron Constantin offers an owner three separate documents about the watch, more than any of the other six, and is unusually exact about the limits of each. All three sit on its Heritage Documents page.

• Certificate of Authenticity. It "includes a technical and aesthetic description of the characteristics of your watch and indicates the year of manufacture", and it needs the watch itself: "the first step is to have the watch physically examined by our Heritage Department experts".
• Extract from the Archives. It carries "the calibre type, the case and movement numbers, the type of dial and strap (if any), the date of manufacture and sale", and then says plainly: "Bear in mind that an Extract from the Archives in no way constitutes a certificate of authenticity."
• Document for insurance purposes. No examination at all, only "the case and movement numbers", and it "indicates the current last recorded retail list price of the timepiece". That is a retail figure, not what a buyer pays, and treating the two as the same thing is the commonest mistake we see on this brand.

The one thing not printed is what any of them costs, or how long it takes: "You may contact our Ambassadors, who will inform you of the cost for these services." So ask first, and decide whether the document is worth chasing before you start.

On value the Maison sends you outward, advising owners "to contact a specialist auction house", and it will not discuss vintage pieces by telephone at all, "In order to protect your property".

The line matters more here than the name on the dial

Vacheron Constantin places sixth of seven for speed on our own ranking of how quickly these brands resell here. That placing is a judgement from our own dealing rather than a published statistic, and it is about liquidity, not quality: a Vacheron Constantin can be worth more per watch than most Rolex references and still take longer to place, simply because buyers here see one rarely.

Within the brand the split is sharper than on any of the other six. Overseas references move. Patrimony, Traditionnelle and the gold dress pieces take patience, and an offer on those has to carry the wait as well as the watch. Weeks rather than days is normal either way.

Benchmarking is harder too. On 20 August 2026 we opened two Overseas references on Vacheron Constantin's Australian site, and both gave the same answer where a figure should be: "PRICE ON REQUEST", marked "EXCLUDING TAX". The Maison declines to print a figure in the one place an owner would look for it, so documentation ends up doing the work a price would have done.

What moves our number most:

• The Digital Passport, introduced in 2019, which Vacheron Constantin says "can be easily transferred to subsequent owners for enhanced trust in provenance on the secondary market". No other maker of the seven makes the resale case for its own record that directly.
• The case and movement numbers, which all three heritage documents key to, so they are the first thing to find.
• Where the warranty stands. Two years as standard, with a six-year extension available to master line watches still inside that initial period, eight in total.

A certified watchmaker authenticates the watch in person before any money moves, and nothing should be polished or tidied beforehand. Send the details and we will give you the number and the reasoning behind it.