Green Like a Swiss Forest: Blancpain Drops a New Variant of its Villeret Perpetual Calendar
The quaint village of Villeret, the birthplace of Blancpain, bestows its name upon the brand’s most classic collection. Deeply rooted in the manufacture’s rich heritage, these watches reflect the brand’s technical prowess and encapsulate its design principles. Their clean lines, lucid dials, and slender double-stepped cases convey the essence of Blancpain’s elegance, while their movements represent state of the art mechanical execution. The collection comprises of sophisticated complications, from ultra-thin timepieces to tourbillons and chronographs; and it goes without saying it also offers a perpetual calendar.
Appropriately enough for a leap year, Blancpain introduces a new variant of the Villeret Perpetual Calendar, for the first time with a green dial. Adorned with a sun ray-brush, this dark green hue is inspired by the forests around Le Brassus, where the brand has been based since 1735. It makes for a magnificent backdrop for the applied Roman numerals and the slim hands.
As fans of this complex calendar form know, the perpetual calendar has a mechanical memory that displays the correct date even in leap years. It will not need adjusting until February 2100, when there will be no February 29th ? as is the case in all years divisible by 100 but not by 400. This exception occurs in the Gregorian calendar in three out of every four centuries.
At Blancpain, this refined calendar mechanism is complemented by a moon phase with a fa...
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