宝珀手表为何越来越火？

When we understand the history of a certain watch brand, we will not move to see what a hundred years of history, long heritage. These words are indeed right, many brands are a hundred years of history, but these brands in front of Blancpain are juniors. Throughout the whole wall clock brand, it can be said that Blancpain can be said to be the oldest, but also the seniority of a brand.

Blancpain was founded nearly 300 years ago, known as the "creator of classic timepieces", is the longest watch brand in the history of Switzerland, but also the first international registered watch brand, but also a very few international brands can be all independent planning, research and development, production, assembly and sale of the brand. Blancpain is also very popular in our country, there is a very huge audience collectively, when it comes to Blancpain, you will certainly think of its Fifty Fathoms series. In addition to the fifty fathoms, what else do you know?

Twisted Fate

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Blancpain was founded in 1735, but it was actually in 1983 that the brand became known as Blancpain.SA. After Frédéric-Emile Blancpain's death in 1932, his only daughter Berthe-Nellie had no intention of joining the watchmaking world. The following year, the Manufacture changed hands to his two closest partners, Betty Fiechter and André Léal, and was renamed Rayville S.A., succ. de Blancpain, bringing to a close two centuries of family management at Blancpain. This was the end of two centuries of family management.

Then, around the end of the 1950s, the Rayville-Blancpain Manufacture announced its participation in the Swiss Wall Clock Industry S.A. (SSIH). 1983, hit hard by the quartz storm, Blancpain was released by the SSIH group it belonged to at the time and sold the Rayville-Blancpain brand name to the sons of Frédéric Piguet (then the small owner of the FP movement factory) and Jean-Claude Biver. The brand name Rayville-Blancpain was sold to Frédéric Piguet's son (then a small owner of the FP movement factory) and Jean-Claude Biver.

The two partners later set up a production plant in Le Brassus, in the Jura valley. The company has since simplified the original name Rayville S.A., succ. de Blancpain's Blancpain, and named it BLANCPAIN.SA (and the brand LOGO acronym JB comes from the initials of the founder, Jehan-Jacques Blancpain). The name of the Chinese people called Bao pò, do not call it Bao bó, will appear uneducated ~!

Eventually, in 1992, Blancpain was bought out again by the SWATCH Group (the SSIH Group was the predecessor of the SWATCH Group), which amounted to Blancpain spinning around in the group.

Valuable persistence

Following the rapid development of the watch industry, many watches are constantly moving with the times, constantly updating their planning and seeking innovation. Blancpain is different, which is not to say that Blancpain does not have innovation, but Blancpain's persistence, very appreciated.

Blancpain, since its foundation, has always had two insistence: to produce only mechanical watches and to make only round watches! Perhaps some people do not understand what kind of concept is not to do quartz watches, which is equivalent to forever abandoned this kind of table maybe for the brand to bring the winnings, this may even the king of the table Patek Philippe are ashamed of themselves.

Plus, insisting on not making shaped watches, naturally losing watch fans who love square oval octagonal and other shapes. Although Blancpain lost some or many earned profits, but won the watch fans more respect, but also adhere to their own nature, which is very important for a top watch brand's central culture.

One Minute Carrousel

Tourbillon used in watches, can be said to be endless, this kind of messy function is simply every brand, and the difference between the various brands is basically only in the shape of the tourbillon plate. However, there are only a handful of brands that make carrousels, and Blancpain is the only one that makes one-minute carrousels.

The essential difference between a Carrousel and a Tourbillon is only one, the Tourbillon is a power source that drives the rotation of the Tourbillon cage and the operation of the balance and escapement. The Carrousel has two power sources, one driving the rotation of the cage (which is driven by three wheels) and the other driving the escapement and balance (which is driven by four wheels, i.e. seconds). Apart from the structural differences, the Blancpain Carrousel does not look different from a normal coaxial tourbillon on the surface.

Exclusive Craftsman

Often, both the Swiss master enamellers and the master carvers are an individual, producing pieces for whichever brand has a need to work with them and for whichever brand has a need to work with them.

Yet the Blancpain brand has a number of Swiss national masters who are not only happy to work at Blancpain, but only for Blancpain. It is also clear why the Blancpain brand has so many customized watches and orphan pieces.

1735

The 1735 is the most important clutter watch in Blancpain's prehistory, a watch that includes functions such as a minute repeater, tourbillon, split-seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar, and moon phase. Although today it seems that many clutter models contain these functions. But this Blancpain Model 1735, introduced in 1991, was the most cluttered watch of its time and one of the highest value clutter watches.

Once launched, this model shook the international watch world. Since the launch of the first one in 1991, only 30 pieces of 1735 have been made, and its price was as high as RMB 7.9 million, which can be regarded as the king of Blancpain watches. And until today 1735 is still an important symbol of Blancpain.