Blancpain is a prestigious Swiss watch brand known for its commitment to traditional craftsmanship and innovation in horology. It is renowned for creating high-quality, luxurious timepieces that often feature intricate complications and elegant designs.


Blancpain is one of the oldest Swiss watch brands, founded in 1735, owned by Swatch Group. It is particularly celebrated for the Fifty Fathoms — one of the world's first modern dive watches (1953) — and for its role in producing the first automatic wristwatch movements. Blancpain is also renowned for its complex mechanical watches, including perpetual calendars, tourbillons, and the ultra-complicated '1735' pocket watch with six grand complications.
The Fifty Fathoms, launched in 1953 for the French military diving unit, is considered alongside the Rolex Submariner as one of the founding references of the modern dive watch. It featured the key innovations that became industry standards: a unidirectional rotating bezel, water-resistant crown, luminous dial markings, and a screwed caseback. The current Fifty Fathoms collection maintains a direct design lineage to the original while incorporating modern manufacture movements and materials.
Blancpain sits at the prestige apex of the Swatch Group portfolio — alongside Breguet and Glashütte Original — as a full manufacture brand with in-house movement production and extensive complication expertise. Unlike Omega (Swatch Group's volume luxury brand) or Longines (accessible luxury), Blancpain produces relatively small quantities at high price points, competing directly with Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and IWC in the serious collector market.

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