Blancpain Men’s Watches: Leman Alarm GMT (Watch service repair)
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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