Making a Date, or in the case of Switzerland’s most historic watchmaker, crafting whole calendars – the most exacting and exquisite horological calendars on the planet. Our final cover for 1010, featuring @vacheronconstantin. Full story in bio, extract below – "More than 260 years of uninterrupted production and profit doesn’t happen because of heritage and nostalgia; it comes from constant preparation for your 261st year, then your 262nd, the 263rd... It’s why the salmon-pink masterpiece depicted here is the perfect embodiment of its maker, Vacheron Constantin, being a calendar perpetuelle. Perpetual, thanks to a 48-toothed cam just behind that gorgeous dial, rotating a full 360o every four years, guaranteeing you never need adjust the date, even on February 29th. (Except on secular, or centurial years (but not those divisible by 400) thanks to Pope Gregory XIII’s calendar not quite syncing with the Earth’s solar orbit – so do remember to adjust your perpetual calendar on the 1st of March in 2100.) Then ‘perpetual’ in a second sense, since the seeming anachronism of this watch’s elaborate, over-engineered mechanics belies the “what next?”, “why not?” mindset to get here – regardless of better time (and a slightly more reliable date) kept by your iPhone. Thanks to Vacheron Constantin’s broader-than-most outlook from 1755 onward, the brand itself has gone the distance; to the point where the 324-part movement inside the Traditionelle Perpetual Calendar Chronograph is considered the finest of its kind, befitting a 43mm case of pure 950 platinum." Design @astridstavro & @alessandromolent. Words Alex Doak, photography @benjaminswansonstill