Blancpain - Villeret - 6638-3631-55B
Villeret Équation du Temps Marchante Red Gold
Main
Brand
Blancpain
Family
Villeret
Reference
6638-3631-55B
Name
Villeret Équation du Temps Marchante Red Gold
Movement
Blancpain caliber 3863
Functions
Hours, Minutes, Small Seconds | Date, Month, Day, Leap Year, Perpetual Calendar | Moonphase, Equation of time, Solar time
Produced
2004
Case
Glass
Sapphire
Back
Open
Shape
Round
Diameter
42mm
Height
11.5mm
Water Resistance
30M
Dial
Color
White
Indexes
Roman Numerals
Hands
Feuille
Description
In 2004, Blancpain debuted a revolutionary equation of time watch, the Equation du Temps Marchante. Blancpain’s watchmakers undertook to bring to wristwatches, for the first time, the rare and difficult running equation complication that had existed only in large clocks and pocket watches. To do this they had to design an innovative gear train, with an ingenious differential that combines the running of the equation gear train controlled by a complex-shaped cam and the running train of the watch’s civil minutes-hand, to drive the running equation hand. In addition, caliber 3863 provides a plus/minus scale equation display. As befits this world’s first wristwatch, Blancpain combined these two separate equation displays with an innovative retrograde moon phase indication and a complete perpetual calendar. The decoration of the movement celebrates this achievement with a special hand carving of the bridges and a meticulously hand-fashioned winding rotor bearing an artist’s image of the sun.
Reference 6638-3431-55B has a red gold case and a white dial in grand feu enamel.
