Tag: Blancpain

Blancpain has just pulled off something no one thought possible on the wrist: a grande sonnerie that plays two different melodies. Not two chimes. Two actual tunes, on demand, switched with a push of a button on the case. Welcome the Grande Double Sonnerie, ref. 15GSQ, and quite possibly the most complicated watch Blancpain has…

Blancpain brings back the vintage spirit of the Bathyscaphe with a limited edition that looks squarely to 1968. It is a quiet salute to the golden age of recreational diving, and to the civilian side of the Fifty Fathoms story.

There’s a quiet revolution happening in the watch world, and it doesn’t involve flying tourbillons or perpetual calendars that can calculate leap years until the sun burns out. It’s simpler than that: Blancpain has made the Villeret Ultraplate smaller, and somehow that feels like a big deal. The Geneva maison has introduced a 38mm version…

Blancpain marks World Ocean Day with a tool watch that prefers quiet capability to noise. The new Fifty Fathoms Tech introduces a world-first 3-hour bezel paired with a dedicated 3-hour hand, a feature born underwater rather than in a boardroom. Divers can now track extended immersions with clarity – a calm idea for long, cold…

Blancpain marks the centennial of Marilyn Monroe’s birth with the Ladybird Tribute – a capsule of seven unique pieces that nod to the jewelry watch the star once wore and the Maison acquired in 2016. Seven watches, seven colors, seven straps, and yes, seven letters – MARILYN. Neat symmetry suits an icon who understood presence.

Blancpain adds a new tone to its Ladybird Colors line for 2026: Nude Moka. Offered in two versions – one with a snow-set center dial – it reads as a warm, discreet companion rather than a shout. The brand calls it a second skin, and the idea fits.

Ladybird Colors reaches its jeweled apex with the Diamond Bloom – two moon-phase pieces in white gold and red gold, their dials and cases snow-set to form a seamless surface of light.

Blancpain faced the quartz crisis by choosing craft over convenience. In the early 1980s, it doubled down on mechanical watchmaking, and in 1983 the complete calendar moon phase set the codes for Villeret. The later push into high complications – the Six Masterpieces and the 1735 – did not dilute that vision. Today the modern…

Blancpain marks the arrival of the Fire Horse with its 2026 Villeret Calendrier Chinois Traditionnel, a limited run of 50 platinum pieces that continues the house’s annual exploration of the Chinese lunisolar calendar in mechanical form.