Louis Bolle Blake Automatic Gents Watch

 Louis Bolle Blake Automatic Gents Watch

The Louis Bolle 'Blake' is a shining example of impeccable style mixed with brilliant watchmaking design. The stainless steel tonneau case is but a backdrop to the intricacies of the textured dial itself. Along with a cosmopolitan set of Roman numeral markers, there resides a radiant tourbillon-like exhibition window with access to the timepiece’s ever twisting balance wheel that is a fascinating way to assure that your automatic piece will remain in perfect working order. Of course, the intricately linked stainless steel bracelet resting around your wrist will feel just as comfortable from when you put it on to when you take it off each day.

Note: After the 31^st, the date mechanism will continue to run through until it reaches '39'. To correct this, you will need to advance the window until it reaches '01' again.

No ordinary rustic farming environment was the 1730 birthplace of Jean-Louis Bolle. Farming was an ongoing enterprise to be sure, but within a stone’s throw of where Bolle had breathed his first breath, and no doubt furrowed his share of fields, he also apprenticed for three years learning the art and craft he would master ahead of his peers. These peers happened to be family in the form of cousins and friends he’d known most of his life. At his own cost, and with tools he provided himself, Bolle would excel in a place described as a mechanical workshop, a place whose door he had run past without a thought hundreds of times as a boy, the interior of which was described as a "laboratory of experimental physics" where he worked as a young man.

From humble beginnings, success built upon success, from chambered apprenticeship to international renown. Jean-Louis Bolle was a watchmaker of honest craftsmanship. And so today, we proudly offer these timepieces inspired by the spirit of this master watchmaker, an individual whose heart and soul grew from the furrows and terraces of Alpine farmland. His was an influence that runs humbly and quietly through all time. We now measure time with these pieces of technology harvested from the seeds of his artistry.

** The Louis Bolle Comparative Retail Ticket Price range ($1255 to $1650) comes from contrasting this watch with similar products offered by major watch retailers. In this instance, "similar" product means comparable watch design, functionality, finish, and accurate component fit. With regard to watch components in particular, similar products will have comparable quality dials, casings, crystals, bracelets and movements to the watch models in this collection. In the instance of the Louis Bolle watch in this listing, major watch retailers have offered similar product at Retail Ticket Prices ranging from $1255 to $1650. 

The Watch Industry calculates MSRP/Compare at Value as a multiple of the watch's wholesale selling price, sometimes referred to as Keystone pricing. Underlying product design and component quality, distribution method, advertising strategies (both direct and cooperative), sales commissions and target gross margin combine to affect wholesale price calculations.

Watches marketed via traditional business models might require a double, triple, or even higher Keystone pricing strategy to reach the targeted ticket price.  This would then allow for retailers to offer incremental discounts to stimulate sales without dramatically affecting a brand's retail price image. 

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