Blancpain released the world's first calendar watch in 2012

12 March 2012--Advanced watchmaking sincere and worship of the moment in modern Omega watches and clocks products, watchmaking workshop in Le Brassus Blancpain launched the world's first Chinese calendar watch to the world grand, state-of-the-art watchmaking skills to the age old tradition to pay tribute. This extraordinary timepiece, both practical value and far-reaching and will aspirations to watchmaking glorious peak.

This Chinese calendar in recognition of significant mystical beauty of traditional Chinese timing using the timing principle deeply rooted in China for thousands years，Clock dial layout is fine, the vividly plate of the hour, minute, and the standard calendar, the more important timing element into the traditional Chinese calendar, such as 12 hour (24 hours), the Lunar New Year dates, lunar month (in combination with the leap month display), Zodiac years, or even the five elements and the 10 Heavenly Stems. Zodiac corresponding to the twelve Earthly Branches, in order to match with ten days of dry, composed of 60 basic units, or 60 Lunar, commonly known as "Sixty Years", constitute the core content of China's traditional culture.

Blancpain Calendar watch is an important timing element, the function of the phases of the moon more closely related to Chinese traditional calendar, play an important role in the running count in that subsection.With the solar day is the basic unit of the standard calendar, the traditional Chinese calendar is lunisolar system, that is, to the lunar cycle (29.53059 days) as the basic unit of the solar calendars. A lunar year of 12 lunar months (354.36707 days), about 11 days less than a calendar year (365.242374 days). Therefore, some years there will be a leap month (such as the dial on "December" below), to comply with the cycle of the seasons change.

View of each Chinese lunar month (including leap month) begins with the date of the new moon, so the length of 29 days or 30 days. Thus, the Lunar New Year contains the intercalary month but in reality there are 13 months older than the solar calendar; the contrary, the non-leap month of the Lunar New Year just 12 months, shorter than the Gregorian calendar. The typical characteristics of the traditional calendar is the cause of the Chinese Lunar New Year date uncertain.