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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Breitling Navitimer has an automatic mechanical movement. It uses the Breitling 23 caliber with 25 jewels running at 28,800 vibrations per hour (vph). It is a COSC-certified chronometer.

The functions it provides are the hour, minute, small seconds, date, as well as a chronograph with three counters. It also runs on a 42 hours power reserve function.

Its counters present on the dial are the

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Breitling Aeromarine Avenger Seawolf is mens diving watch made of brushed titanium case. Its diameter is 44mm and thickness of 18mm. It uses curved sapphire crystal that has anti-reflective on both sides.

Its bezel can be turned uni-directionally in anti-clockwise. There is a luminescent dotted marker and there are 4-fasterners at each quarter. It also has engraving of graduated scales on the bezel.

Located at 10, there is a decompression valve for helium escapement during ascent to the water surface. It uses a over-sized screw-down crown positioned at 3 with case protection and double seal. The caseback is screwed on and has a Breitling embossed logo. Its water resistance capability is up to 3000m.

This diving watch has an automatic movement running on Breitling’s 17 caliber made by ETA. It has 25 jewels and is also a COSC-certified chronometer. On its dial (comes in black, gray, blue, or yellow), it has Arabic numerals and luminescent dots.

For the yellow dial version, both the Arabic numerals and its luminescent baton hands are black. The other types of dial colors are all with silvered numerals and luminescent baton hands. There is a date display positioned at 3 with a 1/100 scaling at its flange.

It comes in either the brushed titanium Professional bracelet with an extendable fold-over safety device buckle, or straps with a choice of Diver Pro or leather.

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