Watches Information

Blancpain Leman Alarm GMT is an exclusive mechanical mens watch that was produced specially for Blancpain by Frederic Piguet. It runs on an automatic movement with a rotor with Cotes de Geneve patterns. It has special functions like a second time zone, alarm, and power reserve above the standard hour, minute, and small seconds.

There are two versions of this watch, the 18K pink gold case and the white gold case. We will discuss about the pink-gold version here.

It has a diameter of 40mm and thickness of 13.5mm with a curved anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Is caseback is transparent with also an anti-reflective sapphire crystal revealing the movement.

There are two crowns on the right side of the watch. The first crown positioned at 2 allows winding of the time for the 1st pull and the 2nd pull allows the control of the hour and minute counters.

The other crown located at 4 is meant for alarm winding. There is a pusher located at 8 which is meant to activate or deactivate the chime of the watch.

Its dial is opalin silver with embossed Arabic numerals made of bronze. Around the dial is printed minute track and it has a skeletonized sword-shaped central hands made of red-gold.

These skeletonized sword-shaped hands are also found in the second time zone counter at 9, double hands alarm at 3, as well as the small seconds counter at 6. Other counters are the sonnerie state at 1 and the sonnerie power reserve at 11. The date display is situated between 4 and 5.

It comes with a crocodile leather strap with a pink-gold fold over clasp buckle.

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The Breguet Classique Alarm Reveil du Tsar has functions covering from hour, minute, small seconds, date, second time-zone, alarm, and a 24 hour timing. These are created from its automatic movement using 24 jewels Breguet 519F caliber. It has Cotes de Geneve designs and a gold guilloche patterned rotor. All these are hand-finished. It has 45 hours of power reserve.

It has two available types of case: 18K yellow-gold or white gold. The case is 40mm in diameter and a thickness of 11.4mm. It uses a curved sapphire crystal that is scratch resistant.

There are two crowns on the case and one is situated at 2 for winding and time-setting. The other is located at 4 for the alarm setting.

There is also a pusher at 8 to control the sonnerie. Its caseback is transparent with sapphire crystal to show the movement within. Water resistant for this watch is 30m.

Its dial is silvered and the center circle is hand-finished guilloche pattern. The outer ring has printed minute track represented by black dots. The inner ring is brushed with printed Roman numerals. Its central hands and the sub-dial hands are the Breguet hand in blue steel.

There are a few indicators within the dial: alarm with dual hands located at 3, small seconds at 6, 24-hour second time zone at 9, the power reserve in-between 10 and 12, and lastly the sonnerie status is shown at 12. It uses crocodile leather for the straps with fold-over yellow-gold buckle.

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