Ever since the resurrection of Blancpain by Biver and Piguet in the 1980’s, the moon has played an important part in the history of the brand. Their first full calendar model with moon phase was a classical beauty, whose legacy lives on until today. The same can be said for the carrousel (karrussel) that Blancpain reintroduced into the world of watchmaking in 2008. The carrousel serves the same purpose as a tourbillon, eliminating the effects of gravity and thus raising its precision, yet does so through a different construction. Unlike the tourbillon, which only has a gear-train connecting it to the mainspring barrel, the carrousel has an additional gear train that controls the rotation speed of the device. When Blancpain brought the carrousel back into the limelight they did so by recreating it into a flying version, similar to the construction of a flying tourbillon, and with a one-minute rotation speed.http://revo-online.com/baselworld-2014-blancpain-carrousel-phases-de-lune-the-sophistication-of-signature-complications-united-in-elegance/

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