My top 3 watches of 2018

Posted on December 29, 2018June 17, 2019 Posted in Fifty Fathoms, Grande Complications, TimepiecesTagged baselworld, fifty fathoms, grande complication, grande date, le brassus, le sentier, manufacture, novelties, ocean commitment, retrograde, titanium, tourbillon, x-71 braceletLeave a comment

This year I had the pleasure of more encounters with new Blancpain timepieces than ever before. Obviously Baselworld was the main event for the Blancpain novelties, but in 2018 we have got some new and exciting watches throughout the year, with the latest one being introduced just prior to Christmas.

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A visit to Blancpain in the Vallée de Joux

Posted on March 24, 2018May 13, 2020 Posted in ManufactureTagged 1735, carrousel, chronographe, equation, grande complication, grande decoration, le brassus, le sentier, manufacture, metiers d'arts, repetition minutes, squelete, tourbillonLeave a comment

“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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