Blancpain is changing the rules on the power reserve and presents its L-evolution Tourbillon Grande Date with the power reserve indicator situated on the winding rotor of the timepiece. 

Moving the power-reserve indication to the winding rotor balances the design of the dial, and Blancpain has thus decided to move from its traditional space one of the fine watchmaking’s grand complications. The vital purpose of the complication can be completely fulfilled if the display is on the back of the watch, and if it is placed there then needless complication can be removed from the dial, increasing the readability of all of the other dialside indications.

This is precisely the thinking that led Blancpain to the design of the L-evolution Tourbillon Grande Date Réserve de Marche sur Masse Oscillante. The designers saw an opportunity to engineer a solution which had never before been achieved: place the powerreserve indicator on a movement element intimately tied to this display, the winding rotor.

The L-evolution Tourbillon Grande Date Réserve de Marche sur Masse Oscillante is offered in both red-gold and white-gold versions.

Blancpain will be presenting, as every year now, an exclusive creation for Valentine’s Day. A limited series of 14 watches set with 2.95K of precious stones adding refined aesthetics to the Blancpain Women collection.

With its diamond-set bezel and lugs, caseband set with four diamonds and a heart-shaped ruby, crown adorned with a diamond and pushpieces covered with cabochon-cut rubies, the white gold case of this Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 sparkles with dazzling splendour. Its engraved mother-of-pearl dial, featuring a marquetry-work motif composed of three white mother-of-pearl hearts and set with 8 diamonds, highlights the exquisite craftsmanship of the master-dialmakers of the Manufacture.

The Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 houses the self-winding Calibre F185 that drove the very first ladies’ flyback chronograph model. It features central hour and minute hands, seconds shown on a subdial at 6 o’clock and the date appearing through an oval aperture at 12 o’clock.  In an additional nod to Cupid, the heart-shaped counterweight of the central sweep seconds hand is delicately hand-painted with a feather. 

The Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2012 special edition watches will be presented in a precious wooden box lined with white nappa leather and they will be exclusively available at the Blancpain boutiques.