Celebrated Swiss watchmaker Blancpain has brought its most expensive ever watch to London. With a price tag of £1.4m, the Blancpain Tourbillon Diamonds feature 480 diamonds totalling 58 carats set in ...
The name of this watch doesn’t actually include its most thrilling feature. For 2011, this is the Blancpain L-evolution Tourbillon Large Date watch. It is true that it has a flying tourbillon and a ...
The Power Reserve Is Where? from HODINKEE on Vimeo. Sorry for all the watch posts recently. It’s Basel time and a couple of my buddies are in Switzerland looking at fancy watches and reporting back on ...
Welcome to Watch-Guy Watches, GQ’s monthly curation of high-end timepieces for the true watch nerds among us. This July, we’re featuring a tactical new Blancpain; the first tourbillon-equipped Bremont ...
In the superlative world of haute horlogerie, the tourbillon is probably the most popular complication that doesn’t actually do anything. It was invented over 200 years ago by Abraham-Louis Breguet to ...
Prouesse aussi technique qu’esthétique, ce dispositif permettant de contrebalancer les effets de la gravité équipe des pièces ...
The world's biggest watch show is wrapping up in Basel, Switzerland. Hundreds of watch and jewelry retailers from around the globe showed off their finest goods and newest designs at the fair, called ...
September 26, 2005 There aren’t too many technology companies that can claim 270 years of continuous trading, research and development. To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the creation of the brand, ...
I’m a big fan of boxing. The “sweet science” has had bad press in recent times and, let’s be honest, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and all that mixed-martial-arts jazz is steal­ing its thunder, ...
Switzerland’s largest privately-owned watch conglomerate, the Swatch Group, unveiled its 2019 watches in Geneva to a small group of journalists during its newly minted press event “Time to Move.” The ...
This month Breguet and Blancpain, two luxury watch brands founded in the 18th century, launched their new offerings at events in Switzerland. Both rolled out watches for men and women from the simple ...