Due to be officially unveiled at Baselworld  2012 is the  Blancpain Villeret with Flinque Lacquered Dial.  With this piece, not only do you get the superb textured guilloché finishing with its waves and undulations, but also a neritic depth achieved by building up layer upon layer of applied blue lacquer.   The Villeret Collection [...]

  Details have just been released of the Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2012.  The Le Brassus manufacture have an excellent tradition – each year they pay tribute to the most romantic day in the calendar with a special limited edition ladies watch.   The Saint-Valentin collection is exquisite and thematic of all the amorous stuff you might [...]

  Blancpain release a new piece the Blancpain X Fathoms Dive watch described by the brand as “the most high performance diving watch ever produced”   Brilliant -  there has been so little “hyped” up press launches since the flurry of activity that is Baselworld that we presumed they had become a thing of the [...]

  Blancpain present a new piece, the exquisite Blancpain Villeret Timezone 30 Minutes Demi-Savonette.  Why?  So any globe-trotting adventurer who travels to those locations which have half-hour time variations will be able to set their wristwatch accurately.  This is a first for Blancpain, yet despite the new technology that unmistakably trim-edged Villeret case remains unchanged [...]

Blancpain present a preview of next year’s tribute to Saint Valentine to be unveiled at SIHH 2011 – the Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2011.  Unlike last year’s curly pear-shaped beauty, this one has what every girl really wants – diamonds, hearts and a flyback chronograph with complete calendar moonphase. A heart-shaped ruby at 12 and a heart-tipped [...]

Blancpain celebrate their signature divers watch with a unique exhibition at their boutique on the Place Vendôme, Paris and with a new watch – the Fifty Fathoms “Tribute to Fifty Fathoms”.   The Fifty Fathoms divers watch was created in the 1950′s, designed for and with the assistance of the elite French Navy divers, “Les [...]

Blancpain  unveil the first ten watches in the new Fifty Fathoms series – the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Flyback Chronograph with Complete Calendar and Moonphases.   The brand, who for the sixth consecutive year will be partners with the Cannes International Boat and Yacht Show will make use of the superb “Vieux Port” location in Cannes [...]

Blancpain add a new piece to the elegant Villeret collection – the Villeret Phase de Lune Demi-Savonnette. Blancpain, acknowledged as a manufacture for the connoisseur  owe recent success largely to the vision of Jean-Claude Biver who in the early 1980’s despite the down-turn in demand for complicated mechanical watches set his master watchmakers the challenge [...]

The design of ladies’ watches is a niche seemingly overlooked by some of the luxury watch houses, not so at Blancpain where the Le Brassus manufacture continues its pioneering attitude to the creation of women’s timepieces.  In 1998 the brand presented the first ladies’ fly-back chronograph, and the same movement was used to power the “Saint-Valentin 2009“, [...]

This weekend Blancpain choose the sublime location of the “Vieux Port” in Cannes to launch the latest in its collection of diving watches, the all-new 500 Fathoms series at the Cannes International Boat Show.  Termed the “ big sister” of the original Fifty Fathoms, first released in the 1950’s, the 500 Fathoms features a brushed [...]

Certainly one of forerunners in the world of horology, the Blancpain manufacture has its’ beginnings some three centuries ago when in 1735 Jehan-Jacques Blancpain began to produce pocketwatches for the gentry from his workbench in his own house in Villeret, a small town located in the Jura valley in Switzerland.   A pioneer then, whose [...]