I did have some link previous experience with Vacheron. On my now-famous first tour of the watchmaking capital, I had visited the store's boutique and swooned over the Overseas in 18-carat pink gold set with 84 round-cut diamonds, as link well as the more restrained Patrimony link in white gold, and found the brand intimidating, perhaps too much for a first visit. Some weeks later I found myself in a hired car, speeding toward the factory in Plan-Les-Ouates.