Blancpain

Tweet Blancpain just launched a new and improved enhanced version of the legendary Fifty Fathoms, the X Fathoms. They claim the X Fathoms is the most high-performance mechanical dive watch every produced. Read more to see our verdict.  When judging the launch and press events that took place in the largest aquarium in the world,...
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Tweet The time that a small diameter watch with a row of diamonds was believed to be the perfect women’s watch is long gone. A growing number of women in the market for a high end watch are seriously interested in the movement. Quartz is no longer the obvious choice, and a mechanical movement...
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Tweet Blancpain released the world’s first watch with second timezone that can be adjusted with 30 minute increments! The name of this watch is the Blancpain Villeret Half Time Zone or (in French) Villeret Demi-Fuseau Horaire. It’s still a long time before the official release during Baselworld 2011, but Blancpain already sent the press release...
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Tweet Blancpain has something to celebrate, their 275th anniversary. For this reason they introduce the Villeret Moon Phase and a new Villeret Collection. I’m happy to see the new Villeret Moon Phase or Villeret Phase de Lune Demi-Savonnette as it’s called in French. It has the looks for which i have always liked Blancpain…...
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Tweet On September 24th the charity auction Only Watch will be held in Monaco. Many of the most prestigious Swiss watch brands created a unique watch for this charity event that is held during the Monaco Yacht Show. All the proceeds of the Only Watch charity auction will be donated to the research of...
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Tweet The Doxa Sub dive watch is famous for it’s orange dial and rotating bezel to compute no-decompression times. Not many people know that Doxa was the first to have a publicly available dive watch with a Helium Release Valve. In the 1950′s and 1960′s the Rolex Submariner and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms showed there...
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