The Blancpain Watch
The Swiss watchmaker Blancpain was established in 1735 by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain and is a luxury prestige brand. They proudly boast:"Since 1735, there has never been a quartz Blancpain watch. And there never will be."
Blancpain has always been interested in holorological expertise and innovation. Technical firsts have included the smallest minute repeater wristwatch, the world's slimmest chronograph and the first self-winding tourbillon watch with one-week power reserve.
The company's best known watch is probably the 1735. This takes almost a year to produce and contains 740 parts that implement six complications: ultra-slim movement, moon phase calendar, perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon and minute repeater.
Another classic Blancpain watch is the Fifty Fathoms. This rugged underwater dive watch was created in the 1950s for the French Ministry of Defence.
Today (Jan 2006) the main Blancpain collections available to buy are:
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