Overseas Chronograph

The Overseas Chronograph is Vacheron Constantin's sports chronograph, and since 2016 it has run on the manufacture's own caliber 5200. That last point matters more than the marketing. For the first two decades of the Overseas Chronograph's life, the movement inside was a supplied and modified Frederic Piguet 1185 base. Vacheron dressed it up beautifully, but it was not fully theirs. The current 5500V line changed that: an in-house automatic column-wheel chronograph with a vertical clutch, twin barrels, a soft iron antimagnetic ring, and the Hallmark of Geneva stamped into it. That is a rare combination in a steel sports chronograph, and it is the reason this watch belongs in the same conversation as a Royal Oak Chronograph or a Nautilus Chronograph while carrying a movement most collectors would argue is finished to a higher standard. We buy and sell Overseas Chronographs on 47th Street, both the current 5500V and the earlier 49140 and 49150 generations, and we can tell you exactly what a real one is worth today. This entry lays out the references, the calibers, the case specs, the strap system, and where the money actually sits in the market.