Blancpain Updates the Villeret Quantième Complet GMT
With the opening of Baselworld, the world’s biggest watch fair, less than a month away, more watch brands are offering up appetizers to the smorgasbord of new product introductions in March. The latest is Blancpain, with a preview of the revamped version of its Villeret Quantième Complet GMT watch.
The Quantième Complet GMT is a mainstay of Blancpain’s Villeret collection.
A “complete calendar” (“quantième complet” in French, the language of Le Brassus, Blancpain’s home in the Swiss Vallée de Joux) is defined as a watch that displays the day, date, month in addition to the time, with a moon-phase display as an optional addition. Blancpain’s distinctive take on this style of timepiece, which it first debuted in the 1980s, has become a cornerstone of the maison’s luxurious Villeret collection: day of the week and month in adjacent windows, date indicated by a blued serpentine hand on a numbered scale on the dial’s rim, and a charming moon-phase display at 6 o’clock. Unlike an annual calendar or perpetual calendar, the simpler “complete” calendar requires more frequent attention to keep it accurate: the wearer must still manually advance the date in months of less than 31 days. However, this watch’s addition of a GMT function ? with a red-tipped pointer hand indicating a second time zone on a 1-t0-24 scale ? takes the watch’s complexity up a notch. Rounding out the dial’s elegan...
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