A blog entirely dedicated to Blancpain timepieces
Today we are in for a real treat since this article does not cover one specific watch but instead an extremely rare set of eight timepieces, each crafted in a 38mm platinum case and featuring a black dial, each representing signature Blancpain complications, from Ultra-Plat to Minute Repeater. This set was called Apotheosis Temporis, it was introduced in 2005 and only eight of these sets were made.
The Running Equation of Time function is rarely executed in watchmaking. Here it is combined with a perpetual calendar, moonphases indication and entirely hand engraved automatic calibre.
“Blancpain perpetuates its historical links with Switzerland’s oldest watchmaking tradition by making its timepieces at Le Brassus and Le Sentier, respectively a village and a hamlet in the Joux Valley. This region of the Waldensian Jura is imbued with the soul of the watchmaker’s art. Clockmaking began here in about 1740, and its workshops are still the source of 90% of the complications of Swiss mechanical watchmaking” (Blancpain website).
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