Blancpain is a luxury brand of Swiss watches. It was established in 1735 by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain. He gradually evolved into a great watchmaker proceeding through subsequent stages. What he established in 1735 was cottage industry at best, where he began manufacturing parts of watches. Later he advanced his work and made fob watches. After Jehan-Jacques the watch manufactory was supervised, updated and expanded by successive family members.
In the thirties the brand made headlines by presenting ‘Rolls’, which was based on a radically new idea. It was an automatic with roller winding. As implied by its name, the winding had the ability to slide in two opposite directions in the case. There were other successive successes too, which gave huge boost to its fame. For example, it was worn by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in the movie “The World of Silence” (Cannes 1956). Same year saw the famous Ladybird model. It surprised everyone with its automatic movement that turned out to be smallest in the world. Blancpain’s superiority over other brands was proved internationally when it’s model ‘Fifty Fathoms’ was chosen by armies of countries like French, Italian and Germany as well as USA.
The relentless hard work of watch masters was rewarded when they made possible the launch of world’s first finest movement coupled up with date, day, month and moon phase all in one watch. Their obsession for making thinnest, smallest and finest craft, crowned them with the privilege of presenting world’s finest minute repeater and thinnest automatic chronograph in 1987. And world’s thinnest Split-Second Chronograph was presented the next year: followed by world’s thinnest self winding tourbillon.
As already stated the brand takes pride in history and historical pieces; the Fifty Fathom has been revived. Today three new models comprise the Fifty Fathom collection line. These masterpieces of art and historical value are of course in limited edition. The Blancpain replica watch comes in handy at occasions when anything resembling a rarity makes a statement. There is an only thing user of Blancpain replica watch need to be aware of though. It is not as waterproof as its original, so they are advised to shower, swim and dive without wearing it.