March 29, 2024
Only Watch: Blancpain Traditional Chinese Calendar

Blancpain presents a one-time traditional Chinese lunar calendar could only watch in 2015 is housed in a 45 mm diameter red gold case is a highly complex motion, strength hour, minute, and the Gregorian calendar (typical calendar ), as well as signs in Chinese calendar, which includes: traditional two-hour indication, date, month and leap month showed signs of the zodiac, and the five elements and 10 celestial stems.

Only Watch: Blancpain Traditional Chinese Calendar
According to the manfacturer, “The combination of the latter with the 12 animals of the zodiac that represent the terrestrial branches follows the sixty-year cycle that is central to Chinese culture. The moon phases, a key element in Blancpain complete calendars, are also presented and play a particularly important role in this model, given the link between the lunar cycle and traditional Chinese months.”

The black grand feu enamel dial features a chapter ring with applied gold hour-markers, as well as indications which were paited in gold before firing. Five Blancpain patented under lug correctors allow for adjustment of the indications. A see-through caseback provides a view of the oscillating weight the has a black champlevé enamel finish and bears the “ONLY WATCH” inscription.