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Blancpain, world's oldest and distinguished
Swiss Watchmaker, presents precious and most valuable timepieces before the
customers. The longest and remarkable watchmaker in history is well-known for
its deluxe mechanical and some of the most desired and expensive watches like
Flyback Rattrapantes, Equation Marchantes and of course the world recognized
Grand Complication - Le Brassus.
Forerunner of Timepiece product:
The Blancpain, a pioneering name in watch
manufacturing, was founded in 1735 by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain. The most prized
watch producer's headquarter is positioned at Paudex, a suburb of Lausanne city
in Switzerland. The industry's philosophy remains rooted in a deep respect for
tradition while on the contrary it bears the contemporary values and always
keeps pace with revolutionary, a little bit crazy and a bit of an adventurer as
well. Besides, the company attempts to be different and innovative in
manufacturing fashionable timepieces over the year.
Blancpain is currently owned by the Swatch
Group, a Swiss company as well as the biggest watch manufacturer in the world
while Nick Hayek is running the business.
The invaluable product - watch:
The oldest watch brand in the world,
Blancpain, has been producing fabulous watches since 1735 whereas it
manufactures a small number of elegant watches around 7,000 pieces per year
including the six most sought masterpieces, to illustrate, ultra-slim movement,
moon phase calendar, perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, Tourbillon
and the minute repeater that perform a long time in development from purely
watchmaking, technological and marketing viewpoints. Subsequently each watch is
made by a single watchmaker which is recorded in the company's archives along
with the corporation always tries to maintain the highest possible quality
generating Boxes, straps and buckles.
For creating a single timepiece, it takes
at least one year and that may be the reason why the retail price soars around
half a million pounds each.
The pieces are designed and crafted
completely in-house and based exclusively on high-quality ebauches that are
provided by its sister company, Frederic Piguet.
Moreover, Blancpain, a recognized brand of
complication watches, produced the first modern diver's watch, the famous
'Fifty Fathoms' in 1953 which was well-known in terms of its performance,
design and the user-friendliness of model. Likewise Blancpain has also created
a rugged new water-resistant strap in rubber-lined black canvas.
Exquisite Collections:
The exquisite classic elegant collections
presented by Blancpain, for instance, are Le Brassus, Villeret; Leman, GMT,
Ultra Slim, Moon Phase, Flyback Chrono, Chronograph, Alarm Watch, Perpetual
Calendar, Tourbillon, Minute Repeater found in different models, case
materials, colors, thicknesses and diameters.
Blancpain's sporting collection combines
watchmaking expertise, innovative materials and subtle, robust design while on
the other hand its diamond watch is the most stunning adornment for an exceptional
creation.
Similiarly, Blancpain, played a pioneering
role in the history of mechanical ladies' watches, has been manufacturing a
good number of special pieces for the modern-day feminine explorers of elegance
over the past 75 years including self-winding wristwatch, the smallest round
movement and more recently the world's thinnest perpetual calendar. The ladies
graceful timepieces equipped with mechanical movement and meticulously adjusted
- Orchidée, The rear, Camélia, Lotus- meet the needs and desires of active,
cosmopolitan women.
The elite watchmaker:
Blancpain always strives for exceptional
quality along with expertise that enables Blancpain to add to its list of
exclusive products and becomes world's top every year.
In terms of beauty, the watches Blancpain
manufactured are literary magical. They are the purest and at the same time,
the most sophisticated which sometimes could be a sign, a language to its
lovers.
Blancpain is celebrated for being the
creator of ‘Blancpain 1735', one of the most complicated mechanical watches
mixing true grand complication of Tourbillon, minute repeater, perpetual
calendar and split chrono.
The watch company is also famous for its
‘Fifty-Fathoms' model watch selected by the United States Navy and worn by
Jacques-Yves Cousteau in his award winning film, ‘The World of Silence', a
Korea crime thriller movie directed by Jo Eui Seok.
Blancpain's first Swiss boutique, just two
and a half years after opening in Geneva, has been awarded the Trophée d'
Excellence' conducted by the Swiss economic magazine ‘Bilan' in association
with the ‘Reflection Marketing agency' specializing in the customer Experience.
In 1991, the German watch magazine
‘Chronos' had awarded six stars for the results of a watch test where
‘Blancpain 1735' model carried this honor with pride.
Md. Asraful Alam
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