Magazine contents December - January 2006 issue
Jan 06, 2006
Editorial Unite for the Long-Term Cover Story Innovation in Luxury & Timekeeping Haut de Gamme A brief visit to Blancpain’s “Farm” The “talking piece” of Zenith In memoriam to Günter Blümlein: The Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite” Jaeger-LeCoultre....

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Watches
Oct 11, 2005
The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms watch is one of the coolest dive sport watches ever manufactured. The history behind this watch is what makes it so unique. Blancpain first created the Fifty Fathoms watch in 1954 for the French Navy. At the time a French Naval officer names Robert Maloubier was searching the market for a dive watch rugged enough to meet the....

Blancpain Leman Watches
Oct 11, 2005
The Blancpain Leman watch collection features an impressive variety of models and complications. Blancpain manufactures seventeen different versions of the Leman. The automatic version with its traditional round case, Roman numeral markers, and date window at six o’clock is truly a classic. This is a men’s dress watch that will never go out of....

Blancpain Watch Collection Overview
Oct 10, 2005
Blancpain is one of the finest timepiece manufacturers in the world. The company was founded in 1735 in Le Brassus Switzerland. Blancpain is now owned by the Luxury watch company Swatch Group. The Swatch Group is run by the Hyack family, and they have made a significant investment to make Blancpain one of the leading fine timepiece brands in the world.....

Blancpain offers reward for stolen tourbillons
Jul 29, 2005
Blancpain, a Swiss luxury watch brand owned by the Swatch Group, is offering 60,000 Euros (about $73,000) for the return of four tourbillon watches worth approximately $361,800, which were stolen in Paris. The four Blancpain tourbillons (part of a limited edition of 50) were stolen mid-afternoon on July 22 from the Blancpain boutique at 8 Rue de la Paix,....

REVEIL ANNIVERSAIRE by Blancpain
Jun 03, 2005
Brushed red gold case (40 mm) equipped with a Calibre 1241 self-winding movement. Black dial, GMT, alarm with power reserve indicator, date at 4.30, small seconds at 6 o’clock, sapphire crystal front and back, water-resistant to 100 metres. Limited Edition of 270 pieces. www.blancpain.com Source: April -May 2005 Issue (Please credit....

Best of the Best 2005: Traditional Complications
Jun 01, 2005
Sun Dialing The “equation of time,” which measures the variable difference between our system of 24 hours in a day and the sun’s actual progress across the sky (solar time), was among the most arcane and confusing complications ever to grace a wristwatch. But with an ingenious presentation, the Blancpain Equation Marchante ....

Time: Second Time Around
Jan 01, 2005
Pierre Jaquet Droz, one of the most noted watchmakers of the 18th century, might find it surprising that his return from oblivion has come not as advertised in the book of Revelation, but at the hands of a modern watch conglomerate. His name and legacy, along with that of Léon Hatot, the 20th-century master of Art Deco jewelry watches, were recently revived....

Jet Set
Nov 01, 2004
The multi-time-zone watch is one of the few complicated watch genres that addresses contemporary lifestyles rather than paying homage to historical technical masterpieces. The latest travel watches range from designs with an additional hand to those with extra dials. So-called world timers indicate all 24 time zones, and GMTs—which are....

EQUATION MARCHANTE, LE BRASSUS, by Blancpain
Sep 03, 2004
Platinum case (42 mm) equipped with a Calibre 3863 self-winding movement. Perpetual calendar, retrograde moon phases, two coaxial minute hands, one indicating mean solar time (normal time) and the other indicating real solar time (that shown on sundials, a reflection of the earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun) thus visualizing the difference....