Blancpain is a Swiss watch manufacturer, founded in 1735 by Jehan-Jaques Blancpain. Blancpain was saved from near bankruptcy by Jean-Claude Biver, an executive with Omega. Blancpain is owned by the Swatch Group. Nick Hayek, the son of Swatch Group's founder and chairman Nicolas Hayek, runs the company.
Blancpain’s most famous watch is the the 1735 model. This delicious confection contains no fewer than five complications. These are a moon-phase display, a perpetual calendar which automatically takes account of leap years, a split second chronograph (usually called a rattrapante), a tourbillon and a minute repeater which chimes the hours and minutes. Each one of these watches take at least a year to create, which might explain why the retail price hovers around half a million pounds each.
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