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Fifty Fathoms | Le Brassus | Specialites | Villeret | L-Evolution | Leman | Ladybird |

Blancpain Movement

Automatic |

Blancpain Case Material

Steel | Platinum | Red gold | Titanium | White gold |

Blancpain Dial Colour

Black | Blue | Green | Grey | Silver | White |

Best Blancpain Replica Watches Details

Founded in 1735, Blancpain is the oldest watch brand in operation today. When Frederic Piguet and Jean Claude Biver purchased the rights to the brand in 1983, they helped bring traditional mechanical watchmaking and complications back into vogue with collectors. Biver stated there never was a quartz Blancpain, and there never will be!
Today, Blancpain is part of the Prestige range of brands within the Swatch Group, continuing their storied history of creating high-horology timepieces packaged in everything from tool-oriented sports watches to precious metal grand complications.
Blancpain History
Blancpain was started by Jehan-Jaques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, in 1735, making it the oldest brand still in operation today. When Frederic-Louis Blancpain, Jehan's grandson, took over the company in 1815, he modernized production methods.
He replaced the crown-wheel mechanism with a cylinder escape, which proved to be a major development in watchmaking. In the 19th century, industrialization threatened many watch brands, but Blancpain managed to survive by modernizing its factory and focusing on high-end products.
In 1926, Blancpain partnered with John Harwood and started to market the first automatic wristwatch. Upon the death of Frederic-Emile Blancpain in 1932, the brand was purchased by employees Betty Fiechter and Andre Leal, renaming the brand to Rayville-Blancpain. In 1950, Betty's nephew joined the leadership, and they joined the SSIH, along with Omega, Tissot, and Lemania, to meet the ever-increasing demand for mechanical watches at the time.
During the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s, SSIH started to sell off brands due to dwindling demand for mechanical watches. In 1983, Jacques Piguet (son of Frederic Piguet) and Jean-Claude Biver purchased the brand. During this time, they created some of the smallest complicated watches, competing with other haute horlogerie brands. SSIH repurchased Blancpain in 1992. The SSIH became the Swatch Group, and Nicolas Hayek took over management of the brand from Jean Claude-Biver.