Blancpain Automatic Villeret Ultra-slim Dresswatch white dial ref. B0021 1127 55 2011 - Reference 1601- 36mm steel

- Reference 1601- 36mm steel and yellow gold case- Serial 501xxxx dating to 1976- Black pie-pan dial - Two-tone Oyster bracelet 78360 with 458 endlinks- Box

- Limited edition 158/500

The watch is fitted with a USA Jubilee bracelet

- Dates to 1980s

Rolex paper holder

Blancpain Automatic Villeret Ultra-slim Dresswatch white dial ref. B0021 1127 55 2011 - Reference 1601- 36mm steelBlancpain was founded in 1735 by Jehan Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, making it one of the oldest existing watch brands in the world. Interestingly enough, Blancpain refused to produceand still refuses to producequartz driven watches, even during the 1970s when nearly 40 percent of Swiss watchmakers went bankrupt during the Quartz Crisis. At the time, they proudly used the slogan: Since 1735, there has never been a quartz Blancpain watch.