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Blancpain

Blancpain was founded in 1735 and belongs to the Swatch Group (Breguet, Omega, Longines, Swatch). For many years during the 20th century Blancpain was out of business and did not sell any watches. In the 1980s Blancpain was revived and today enjoys considerable success among collectors.

A somewhat famous marketing slogan is that Blancpain has never produced quartz watches and it never will. Every Blancpain timepiece (usually thirty to forty per day are being manufacture) is entirely made by one person, the so called watchmaker. The Blancpain 1735 watch is one of the most complicated watches ever made, its features include a tourbillon, minute repeater, perpetual calendar, split chrono – and together are the base for a grand complication. Blancpain watches are also popular with sports fans and divers.

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KISS Drummer Eric Singer Tests Ball Watch on Stage

At a recent invitation-only press event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Tokyo, KISS drummer (and WatchTime Connoisseuer profile subject) Eric Singer tested a Ball watch during on onstage performance.

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Nov 7, 2013 by WatchTime

Sponsored: Gerald Charles Introduces Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon

Introducing a new age of technical aestheticism, Gerald Charles debuts its Maestro 9.0 Tourbillon. With a unique design created with the expert oversight of the brand’s creative director, Octavio Garcia, the timepiece is a return to the original Maestro flying tourbillon released in 2005. Taking hints from the brand’s rich history, the new release is...

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Mar 21, 2023 by WatchTime

The Big Fix: Behind Girard-Perregaux’s Makeover

The new Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk goes under the microscope in WatchTime’s November-December issue, on sale now. In this feature from the June 2013 issue, we delve into how new Sowind Group CEO Michele Sofisti plans to cure what’s been ailing that Swiss high-horology brand.

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Oct 22, 2013 by Norma Buchanan

A Record-Breaking Patek Philippe Highlights Top 5 Watches from Only Watch 2013

The fifth edition of the biennial “Only Watch” auction took place over the weekend at the Hermitage Hotel in Monaco. When the final hammer fell, the auction of unique timepieces had raised 5,066,000 euros for research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and a Patek Philippe Ref. 5004T fetched the highest price ever paid for a modern...

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Oct 1, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Watchmaker Dominique Loiseau Passes Away

French watchmaker Dominique Loiseau, known for creating the Rose des Temps clock, Blancpain 1735 wristwatch, and other notable timepieces, has passed away. Last year, Loiseau joined Girard-Perregaux to develop new in-house movements for the brand. Read below for Girard-Perragaux’s official statement on the watchmaker’s passing.

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Sep 18, 2013 by WatchTime

Blancpain Hosts UN Reception for “Oceans” Photo Exhibit

On July 10th, guests of Blancpain, DivePhotoGuide.com and the National Geographic Society gathered for an evening reception in the exhibit gallery of the United Nations in New York to acknowledge “Oceans,” an underwater photography exhibition.

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Jul 16, 2013 by WatchTime

Watch Insider Looks at Blancpain L-Evolution-R Chronographe Flyback Rattrapante Grande Date

WatchTime’s “Watch Insider” Alexander Linz visited the Hungaroring race track near Budapest for the launch of the Blancpain L-Evolution-R Chronographe Flyback Rattrapante Grande Date, which features a 24-hour counter shaped like the Lamborghini logo.

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May 23, 2013 by WatchTime

Watch Insider: My Top 10 Watches from Baselworld 2013

The Baselworld 2013 watch fair has come to and end, and now, having seen and covered dozens of new watches on my blog, Watch-Insider.com, my colleagues at WatchTime have asked me to name my favorite new timepieces from this year’s show. Click here to see my top 10 watches from the most well-established brands.

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May 19, 2013 by Alexander Linz

Baselworld 2013, Day One: Blancpain, Hublot, Graham, Alpina

The first day of the 2013 Baselworld watch fair is in the books, and I’ve already seen a number of interesting new timepieces. Yesterday’s highlights included a clever yacht-timer watch from Alpina, a world horological  first from Blancpain, and some quality time with one of this year’s most talked-about pieces, Hublot’s La Ferrari.

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Apr 26, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Horology Meets Cuisine: Blancpain Partners with Three-Star Chef Daniel Humm

Last week, at a luxurious six-course dinner at New York City’s world renowned Eleven Madison Park restaurant, Blancpain introduced Daniel Humm, a three-Michelin-starred chef and Blancpain watch enthusiast, as an official “friend of the brand,” presenting him with a one-of-a-kind, engraved Fifty Fathoms timepiece.

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Mar 12, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Video: WatchTime Talks Racecars and Watches with Lamborghini’s CEO

Last week, WatchTime attended the “global dynamic launch” of the Lamborghini LP 700-4 Aventador Roadster in Miami as a guest of Blancpain, which partnered with Lamborghini in 2009 to establish the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo single-make race series. While there, we had the opportunity to speak with Lamborghini CEO Stephen Winkelmann, who answered questions about...

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Feb 6, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Blancpain Introduces Saint Valentin Ladies’ Watch

With the 2012 holiday season behind us, Blancpain is already looking ahead to Valentine’s Day, with the debut of its new Saint Valentin 2013 limited-edition watch, a ladies’ model with a mother-of-pearl dial and diamond-bedecked bezel.

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Jan 2, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Watch Wallpaper: A Cavalcade of Calendars

It’s the holiday season, the time for giving and receiving gifts — and accumulating next year’s calendars for your home and office walls. How about some great horological calendars to decorate your desktop? Click here to download beautiful images of calendar timepieces from some of the top haute horlogerie watch brands.

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Dec 21, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Blancpain Villeret Squelette 8 Jours

Skeleton watches continue to be hot items for collectors, and Blancpain‘s Squelette 8 Jours (Ref. 6633-1500-55B), from the brand’s elegant Villeret collection, offers one of the most intricately executed openworked movements on the market. The manufacture movement on display through the front and back sapphire crystals is the manual-wind Calibre 1333SQ, which is equipped with...

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Dec 5, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Elegant Accessories: Pens for Watch Lovers

Watch companies have upped the ante in the quality of their branded accessories — particularly in the case of fine writing implements, a category near and dear to the hearts of many watch collectors. In this 2009 column by Fine Pens writer Jan DiVincenzo, the first in our online archive of WatchTime’s popular lifestyle columns,...

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Jul 30, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Blancpain Villeret Traditional Chinese Calendar

With 2012 being the Chinese Year of the Dragon, and with the momentous growth of Asia, and China in particular, as a luxury wristwatch market, it should be no surprise that many brands have created timepieces aimed squarely at Chinese consumers this year. Dragons and other Chinese motifs and styles were a recurring theme at...

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May 9, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Dominique Loiseau on Girard-Perregaux: The WatchTime Q&A

French-born watchmaker Dominique Loiseau first caught the attention of watch collectors in the 1980s, the great wasteland years of the mechanical watch industry when quartz ruled the watch-world roost. His complex and creative inventions, such the Rose des Temps clock, the Blancpain 1735 wristwatch and the 1f4 models from his own independent atelier, have made...

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Apr 26, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Revisiting a Divers’ Classic: The Rolex Submariner

Rolex released a new version of its Submariner Date watch in 2010, in a steel case with a ceramic bezel. We test that watch in our March-April issue, on newsstands now. But did you know that the Rolex Submariner has been around for almost 60 years, and has been worn not only by professional divers...

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Apr 10, 2012 by Gisbert Brunner

Baselworld Preview: Blancpain’s New Villeret Model

Prior to the opening of the 2012 Baselworld watch fair in Basel, Switzerland this week, Blancpain has offered up what it refers to as an “appetizer” to the main course of new models to be unveiled at the show. It is the first model in the brand’s Villeret collection to feature a flinqué lacquered dial,...

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Mar 6, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

New from Blancpain: X Fathoms Dive Watch

Blancpain CEO Marc Hayek chose the world’s largest aquarium, the Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo in the Dubai Mall, to reveal the the brand’s latest diving watch. The X Fathoms combines elements of its famous Fifty Fathoms ancestor with a modern mechanical depth gauge and several claimed world firsts to create what Blancpain calls the...

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Oct 27, 2011 by WatchTime

Unique Blancpain Villeret for Only Watch

You may be accustomed to seeing the dial side of the watches featured here, but in the case of this Blancpain Villeret for Only Watch 2011, the case back reveals the art that makes this watch special. The bridges of the “Villeret Grande Décoration” unique piece are hand engraved to depict a typical Monegasque scene,...

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Sep 5, 2011 by WatchTime
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