Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch

The Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch commemorates the foundation of the Geneva watchmaking guild in 1601. This beautiful timepiece, offers the ultraslim construction, impeccable detail, and classic form of the entire Villeret watch collection, and shows off the classic and prestigious perpetual calendar complication. The Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch is animated by the selfwinding 5653 Calibre.

This complex mechanism, which comprises 297 individual pieces, is built in entirety from start to finish, by a single Blancpain watchmaker. Each part has been carefully refined by hand; the bridges are decorated with Cotes de Geneve and Anglage, while the plates feature a perlage finish. The complicated perpetual calendar mechanism of the Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch indicates day of the week, date, month, and moonphases, automatically adjusting for the various lengths of the months, and the four-year leap year cycle, which is indicated in a small window on the dial at twelve o'clock.

The Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch displays a shimmering opaline dial with leaf hands and Roman numerals in red gold; upon it, a small Latin inscription, "Dignus est intrare", located above the leap year window, translates as "he is worthy to enter", the traditional words spoken when a watchmaker gained acceptance into the Geneva Watchmaking Guild. Presented in a 38mm case made from 18K red gold, the Blancpain Villeret "Jubilee" Perpetual Calendar watch is a fitting tribute to both the rich traditions of the Manufacture Blancpain, and the centuries old high craft of elite Swiss watchmaking.