Fake watch - The 2006 Vacheron Constantin Prize

The 2006 Vacheron Constantin Prize

The oldest craftsmanship with the most complicated timepieces created due to the horological technology moves from its watch models that include only hours, minutes and seconds to a more complex and sophisticated constructions. Today's models include perpetual calendars, chronographs, moon-phase and jumping-hours. There should also be mentioned the timepieces with complex mechanisms with a tourbillion regulator.

The oldest brand of watches and one of the most prestigious whose products' unique style is all about quality and elegance, in 2006 awarded a Vacheron Constantin Prize to a student from the University of Geneva, Miss Céline Lichtensteiger. The Vacheron Constantin Prize recognized the accomplished work of the author. Miss Céline Lichtensteiger's work deals with ferroelectricity.

The students from the faculty of science of the University of Geneva are awarded each year since 1948. Every annual prize is given away by the Swiss famous brand. The 2006 year Vacheron Constantin Prize went to the Ph D thesis on ferroelectricity. The title of thesis is " Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: the Study of Size Effects in Lead Titanate Thin Films". The prize given away at Vacheron Constantin's Manufacture in Plan-les-Ouates by the brand's representatives was a ladies' Overseas watch.

The work of Céline Lichtensteiger's put an accent on the understanding of size effects in ferroelectrical materials. Her thesis mainly focuses on phenomena of objects at ever-smaller scales and mainly the nanoscale. To understand the nanonscale there should be an understanding of a nanometer. One nanometer represents the one billionth part of a meter. The nanometer a very interesting and unusual point on the scale of length, because on its level the devices created by men meet the atoms and molecules of the natural world. For a better understanding a comparison of things could be quite useful. Thus the diameter of an atom represents about one quarter of a nanometer. And as concerning human's hair, the diameter of it is about 10,000 nanometers. That is why Nanoscale is the scale that refers to dimensions varying from a fraction of a nanometer to tens of nanometers.

The reason for awarding each year the prize of a work on astronomy, the physical sciences or mathematics has its roots in the brand's own history. The founder of the company was a brilliant watch inventor who was charmed by the scientific technologies of his time. The company is also proud to have in its history Georges-Auguste Leschot the inventor of machines that could manufacture interchangeable parts for the movements of watch. Till nowadays the company continues to be the locomotive of the scientific progress through its progressive creations. A quarter of a millennium brand creates, develops and upgrades its models continuing to be the best of the best in watch innovations.