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Blancpain Villeret Triple Date Calendar Steel Manual Winding 34mm
- Manufacturer: Blancpain
- Model: Villeret
- Reference: 6501
- Gender: Men / Unisex Watch
- Material: Stainless Steel
- Case size: 34mm
- Movement: Manual winding
- Dial: White
- Glass: Sapphire crystal
- Strap: Leather
DESCRIPTION
The Villeret reference 6501 sits at the heart of Blancpain's post-1983 revival, a period in which the manufacture deliberately positioned itself against the quartz tide by committing to hand-wound complications of classical proportion. The triple calendar — displaying date, month, and moon phase without the self-correcting mechanism of a perpetual — demands that the owner engage with the watch directly, advancing the quickset correctors at month's end; collectors who appreciate the architecture of traditional grande complication movements tend to regard this honest, unmediated relationship with the calendar as a virtue rather than a limitation. At 34mm in stainless steel, the case occupies the restrained scale that defined dress watchmaking before diameter inflation, and the manual-winding movement rewards that discipline with a slimmer profile than any automatic equivalent could achieve.
Dreamlike white dial with Roman numerals.
- Manual winding
- Original condition
- Original Blancpain buckle
- Sapphire crystal
- Month
- Date
- Moon phase
- Quickset
CONDITION
- Dial: Very good
- Glass: Very good condition with hardly visible signs of wear
- Case: Very good condition with hardly visible signs of wear
- Bezel: Very good condition with hardly visible signs of wear
- Caseback: Very good condition with hardly visible signs of wear
- Bracelet: Very good condition with hardly visible signs of wear
SCOPE OF DELIVERY
- Certificate of authenticity
- Merchant Invoice
- Box
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