{"id":35101,"date":"2017-04-28T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=35101"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:36:01","slug":"blancpain-adds-2017-date-moon-phases-womens-timepiece-to-the-villeret-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/blancpain-adds-2017-date-moon-phases-womens-timepiece-to-the-villeret-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Blancpain continues love affair with the moon-phase complication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blancpain\u2019s 2017 Date Moon Phases women\u2019s timepiece in the Villeret collection is presented with an opaline dial in a red gold watch featuring solid leaf-shaped hands, a pointer-type date display and a sapphire moon-phase indication.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Swatch Group luxury brand claims that moon-phase complication were almost extinct in the early 1980s when Blancpain revived a love for them.<\/p>\n<p>The moon-phase indicator is composed of a wheel with 59 teeth, the equivalent of two complete 29.5-day lunar cycles \u2013 which is why the moon is drawn twice on the disk driven by this wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The case of the watch measures 29.2mm in diameter and is topped by a bezel adorned with 48 full-cut diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>It is powered by the automatic 913QL movement visible through a sapphire case back that reveals a red gold oscillating weight adorned with a snailed bevel, polished chamfers, as well as straight and circular C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve pattern.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/2017\/04\/Blancpain-Villeret-Date-Moon-Phases-back.jpg\" alt=\"Blancpain Villeret Date Moon Phases back\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1000\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blancpain\u2019s 2017 Date Moon Phases women\u2019s timepiece in the Villeret collection is presented with an opaline dial in a red gold watch featuring solid leaf-shaped hands, a pointer-type date display and a sapphire moon-phase indication. The Swatch Group luxury brand claims that moon-phase complication were almost extinct in the early 1980s when Blancpain revived a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[17,7036,4,7,2,3],"tags":[135,521,170,9695],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=35101"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=35101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}