Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph Stainless Steel White Dial Bracelet 42mm 49150/B01A-9095 Second Generation

Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph Stainless Steel White Dial Bracelet 42mm 49150/B01A-9095 Second Generation

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INFORMATION

Condition
Used
Box/Papers
Box & Papers
Brand
Vacheron Constantin
Production Year
Current Production
Model Number
49150
Series
Overseas

CASE

Crown
Screw Down
Bezel
Stainless Steel
Movement
Automatic
Case Back
Solid
Material
Stainless Steel
Case Size
42 mm
Case Shape
Round

DIAL

Dial Type
Analog
Dial Color
White
Dial Markers
Index
Hands
Luminous

BRACELET

Band Material
Stainless Steel
Clasp
Deployment

ADDITIONAL INFO

Gender
Men's
Country of Manufacture
Switzerland
 

Description

Hey, welcome back to jazz time. Jaztime.com is an online store that buys, sells, and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watch for yourself in the comfort of your own home. We offer lowest prices anywhere online. And if you like to know the price simply click on the links in a description below. We greatly appreciate if you purchase your next watch from us at Jaztime.com. Today we'll be talking about the fast run Constantine overseas chronograph. A 42-ish millimeter watch with a white dial, full steel construction as you can see. Alight reference number four nine one five zero slash b zero one a dash nine zero nine five. That means that this is the second generation, we're currently on the third generation at least as of the making of this video of the, of the overseas chronograph. So what, basically, why would you want to settle on the second generation? Well, well obviously the price will set it apart from the newer generation, but there's a few other factors and I'm pretty sure if you're keen on the third generation you'll have already seen the differences already. But before we get to all of that, we'll be let me tell you that I'm, I'm gonna be going over the case, the dial, the bezel, the crown functions as well as the pushers here, the movement and the bracelet. I'll be giving you my thoughts on all these features throughout this video. All right, now, starting off with this case, we have the forty-two, it sort of averages out to 42.5 millimeters. That's from the ten to four or the two o'clock to eight o'clock position. That's sort of like the average. It's not a perfectly round case as you can see these lugs sort of elongate it and sort of make it a little bit wider depending on how you measure it, but it averages out to 42.5. It wears like a, between a forty-one and a forty-three. So 42-ish millimeter case dimension. It has a thickness of 12.5 millimeters, I measured, and the lug to lug span about 50 millimeters, like right right down the center about five centimeters. Right? So, and it actually does have this sort of form factor that allows it to fit on just about any size wrist. But more on that later when I try it on and show you, right? So taking a look at the overall case construction here we have a nice high polish along the sides, right? With a set and brush finishing across the entire front vertical finishing as you can see, right? And with a nice bevel to it that gives it sort of that little bit of extra edge and a very nice overall finish. And sitting right on the front of this case, we have this bezel here with these sort of Maltese Cross sort of theme going on here with the Vacheron Constantin Maltese Cross. However, the second generation here features eight prongs all together, four on each side, if you want to divide it up like that. However, if you take a look at the newer generation the overseas chronograph actually has only six prongs. So these prongs themselves are actually bigger. There's only three on each side. So this one has it a little bit more busy looking but gives it sort of that industrial look that gives it that real sense of being sporty and more modern. Whereas the newer generation, the third generation with the the six prongs makes it a little bit cleaner in presentation, in my opinion. However, a little bit more timeless, a little bit harder to gauge as to where exactly it fits within the overseas line. This one is a little bit more obvious in that it would be a modern industrial sports like watch. All right, now, taking a look at the dial on the inside here we have a white dial with a nice, fine geo shade patterning. It sort of has these tiny motif, trapezoidal, triangular patterning on that dial. It gives a very nice distinct texture and repeated with that triangular look we have the index hour marks as well. Also with that trapezoidal sort of presentation all of them being, you know, basically the same, right? So nothing is being left out here. The only difference is here is, well, if you take a look at how these, the style layout is actually set up visually they're basically kind of the same. However, the, the chronograph at the three o'clock position is a little bit different. It comes in weird, well, uncommon I would say. A thirty minute chronograph hand at the three o'clock position. And if you take a look it's actually a little bit larger than the other two and for reasons I don't really know, but if you happen to know let us know it down in the comments below I'd love to hear it, but that also squeezes out this index hour marker at the three o'clock position. I don't know if I particularly like that, but hey, maybe you need the thirty minute dial to be a little bit larger and that's good on you. This would be a very good contender for your next watch. At the 12 o'clock position, we have a double digit style of a date wheel, or two sets of wheels, actually. So if I demonstrate the crown function there for the date setting, it's a rapid, it's a quick set date. So you can actually set it however you want. And note that the, the ten's position for that date does not actually move until you actually get to ten, and then it basically stays there while the one's position will continue to go. And it's about a half turn for each or maybe a full turn. Somewhere between a half and a full turn to advance the date by one. Okay. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. We also have a nice chaptering at the periphery of this dial here, which works very well with this chronograph hand, Lance style, otherwise sort of like a Baton-ish style, minute and hour hand layout here. The luminosity actually fills the entire hand for both of these. On the third generation it only goes, it only fills the body of these hour and minute hands. And the tip is left fully, you know, colored in without the luminescence. And speaking of which, we can take a look at the luminescence now, and, shines brightly. It does. And so therefore it's very easy to see, very easy to read in any low light situation. Gives that, that very nice telltale, green tint, nice and clean overall presentation. I actually like this quite a lot. The only downside is that the chronograph hand does not actually glow. Neither does the seconds hand, but you know, when when someone asks you what the time is you don't give them the seconds. You give them the hour and the minutes. That's all it really matters for most people. And when you're timing things, you're usually timing things during the day. Now onto the functions of this watch. Let's take a look at the chronograph features of this. It's basically what you would expect. There's a vertical clutch with a column wheel. So there's no fear of, you know, letting this run and having it wear down the movement because it will just latch on, and go along with the pace of that small seconds hand at the six o'clock position. It also, we also do have a featured 12 hour chronograph dial at the nine o'clock, should you really need that. But as the hand reaches the 12 o'clock, the minute chronograph slowly ticks up. So it gives it not, not an instant tick but a very nice sort of easy movement of that tick. Alright. And then pressing the, the top button again, gives it a very nice actuation, nice click, nice actuation. Feels good to actually press this button. If you, if you're a fidgeter, you may actually enjoy this but don't do it too often. Anyway, once you stop it, you can then reset all of these dials, except the small seconds, as well as the chronograph hand by pressing the bottom button reset nice and easy and it feels good as well. And be sure to always screw these back in when you're no longer need them. You want to maintain that water resistance down to 150 meters or 500 feet below sea level, feels good in the hands to press those. Be sure to screw them back in to maintain that water resistance. Now, the winding crown it's, as you would expect you simply unwind it to the first position. This allows you to wind the watch. So about 20 to 30 full winds is all you need to get to the full power reserve. Once you start filling that damping, that resistance, starting to ramp up, that's when you know you can stop nice and easy. Pull it out to the next position. You can do what I demonstrated earlier by advancing the date. It's about, yeah, it is actually about a half turn. So I was doing a small quarter turns earlier but it is actually a half turn to advance the date, right? And if you do it with the correct thumb and forefinger movement, it actually feels very good. You get that little ticking that tiny haptic feedback of the ti, of the tiny date dial ticking forward feels very good. If you're on the 30th of a month and tomorrow is the first of the next month, just simply wind it once. And when the hour hand goes past midnight it'll just switch over to first. Nice and easy, no issue there. Pull the C crown out to the final position. Not that these small seconds actually does continue to run. Alright. So there is a slight issue with that that I personally take but you know, I love myself some hacking seconds, but hey, no one really asks again for the seconds when they ask for the time. So just set the minute hand, wherever it happens to go just wait for that seconds hand to sweep around. And then when it's ready you can then press the crown in. Now for this specific model. I don't know that this is the same for all models, but there's a slight jump ahead whenever I press the crown in to set the minute. Not that that's a huge issue. So for this specific one, again, I don't know if this happens for every single second generation Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph, but keep in mind that you may want to actually set it behind by about one minute and then press the crown in. As you saw earlier it actually jumped forward one minute about, right? And once you're done, just simply wind it tightly back against the case to ensure that water resistance. Nice and easy. Alright, now taking a look at what makes all of that work. It is the in-house made caliber the, or actually, no it is a slightly, a partially in-house made but mostly outsourced movement. They call it the caliber 1137. It beats at 21,600 vibrations per hour. It has 37 jewels with an approximate power reserve of 40 hours. Alright so, it beats at about three hertz. So about, about six little ticks per second. And if you'll know, you can't see it through the case back but you do have that anti magnetic case back that keeps the movement nice and protected. If you get close to any sort of magnet, well, it'll be running just fine. Not that most of us work with magnets all that much. And taking a look at this case back, we also have this, this ship that I believe may be related to Amerigo Vespucci. I'm not entirely certain on that. I haven't done the full research on this vessel here but you can certainly look at it under a loop and see all the fine details in it. Along with the, you know, the certification that it is water resistant down to 150 meters. It's a screw on case back, so, very nice and easy to service when it's needed. Taking a look at the bracelet here, we have a nice set and brush finish continuing from the case all the way down all of these links and in between each link these intermediate portions here, if I can zoom in and get a nice, clear view of it, it's actually a high polish among all of these tiny pieces of these links. So that gives it a very nice distinct look and overall just very beautiful presentation. Something that you can't duplicate easily. Nice high polish along the sides. And if you'll note, all of these links are actually removable. So if you need to size this to your taste you can certainly do so. Going down to the double deployment clasp here, we have a button pushing system here with the Maltese Cross, nicely centered and symmetrical. And I believe this one does not feature the the pull adjustment system that the third generation has. Actually let me check right now. No, it does not feature that. So one, one more difference between the second generation and the third generation is that third generation allows you to pull this bracelet out and size it. You know, if your wrist happens to swell during the day because it's really hot, maybe you drink an entire two liter bottle of water, your wrist would swell and then you can just simply pull the bracelet out. Literally, you don't even need to take it off of your wrist and it would size nicely. Whereas this one you'd have to actually size it to your wrist. Now, again, to open this just press both the sides to deploy the clasp. Nice and easy. All stainless steel in its construction. Nice high polish on the inside. Just a very nice little extra flare there. While I'm here I'll try it on, give you my thoughts as to how it wears on the wrist, right? So this has full links on it, so I, it's rather big for me, but you know, again, this is a, it wears about like a 41 to 43 millimeter depending on where you look at it. But zoomed out on my wrist, kind of big. If you have a wrist larger than seven centimeter or seven inches or 18 centimeters interference, then you know this would definitely fit much better for you. On my wrist there's plenty of space for venting underneath these lugs. And actually if you do have a wrist like mine or smaller, the the way that these lugs actually work is that the the bracelet can actually go all the way, can actually be tucked underneath these lugs. So literally anyone can wear this overseas watch with zero you know, risk of, you know, actually not having it fit. Because again, you can simply remove any number of links that you want and it'll still fit. Because the lugs allow for that inward tucking as you can see. Alright, now, taking a look at how readable is it? Incredibly readable, because the outlines for those index hour markers increase that contrast makes it very easy to read, incredibly easy to read. And what that black chronograph hand center mounted makes it very easy to actually see, you know how much time has elapsed with the black hands on the sub counters as well. Nice and easy. And you know, as long as you don't actually look and take, you know super careful notice of that 30 minute chronograph dial at the three o'clock position, I think we'll be just fine. It looks symmetrical enough. Now on the third generation, all the dials are in fact much more symmetrical and the date has actually moved to about the four-thirty position. So you do kind of lose a little bit more of that symmetry. I don't know, take a look at the third generation. I did a video on the black dial with the white sub counters but you know, you can take a look at that on our website or here on YouTube and make a judgment for yourself, which one's better. But anyway, enough of what I think. What do you guys think about this watch? 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