IF ONLY WALLS COULD SPEAK - Blancpain

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IN TIME Then the mantra was correctness for each occasion, and a gentleman’s wardrobe was defined by those dictates. Business attire: white shirt, narrow tie, dark suit, hat, black wing-tipped shoes. Formal attire: single button tux, stud fastenings, patent leather shoes. Cocktail attire: blue blazer with gold buttons and single vent, gray trousers, black loafers. Visit to academia: corduroy coat with elbow patches, brown loafers. Touch football on the lawn: crew-necked sweater (with only a white tee shirt underneath), khakis (no belt), sneakers. There is something of that spirit in the special edition Blancpain set “Apotheosis Temporis”, a set of eight watches, each conceived to fit the demands of a different occasion, in this case the demands of the most classical watch specialties. Thoroughly researching the development of watch complications, including re-examining its earlier issue of the Six Masterpieces, Blancpain has composed a set of eight individual complications to outfit perfectly a watch wardrobe with one each of the most traditional specialties of haute horlogerie. Each of these eight watches is dressed in a platinum case, with a platinum deployant buckle. All have a special black dial reserved for watches of this set. The best way to understand how Blancpain has evolved the Six Masterpieces to arrive at the Apotheosis Temporis is to APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS IS A SET OF EIGHT WATCHES EACH CONCEIVED TO FIT THE DEMANDS OF A DIFFERENT OCCASION, IN THIS CASE THE DEMANDS OF THE MOST CLASSICAL WATCH SPECIALITIES. think of a “comparative tasting”. No, I do not propose that like oenophiles we solemnly swirl the watches all the while sniffing to extract nuance then pompously intone an adjectival riff on what we imagine we have just experienced. But I do propose that we illuminate our powers of observation, so as to appreciate what years between the two sets have brought. First of course there are now eight watches instead of six (no points for that observation, that being the equivalent of the pronouncement that a wine at a tasting is “red”). Even if remarking on the existence of two additions does not reveal extraordinary
APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Ultraplate APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Quantième à Phases de Lune APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Chronographe Monopoussoir à Rattrapante APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Equation Marchante Pure 16 | 17 APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Time Zone APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Quantième Perpétuel avec Correcteurs sous cornes APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Tourbillon APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Répétition Minutes
Page 1 and 2: APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS A Classical Col
Page 3 and 4: DEAR FELLOW WATCH CONNOISSEURS Welc
Page 5 and 6: CONTENT IF ONLY WALLS COULD SPEAK p
Page 7 and 8: The Le Brassus atelier known within
Page 9 and 10: 06 | 07 Stairway to the upstairs wo
Page 11 and 12: Lovely details abound. Note the dra
Page 13 and 14: 10 | 11 single watchmaker. The Le B
Page 15 and 16: Across the hall from the 1735 Room
Page 17: 14 | 15 APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS: A CLAS
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Page 23 and 24: 20 | 21 Another difference, movemen
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Page 27 and 28: WHILE AWAY AN AFTERNOON RESTAURANT
Page 29 and 30: OWNER OF FIVE BLANCPAIN WATCHES ACQ
Page 31 and 32: focus of their first half hour toge
Page 33 and 34: Caviar d’osciètre of provence on
Page 35 and 36: I had now worked my way up to desse
Page 37 and 38: DEWAYS As it recounts a several day
Page 39 and 40: set it to the current day, date, mo
Page 41 and 42: using the watch. It is uniformly th
Page 43 and 44: THE PRODIGY ★ EACH BLANCPAIN WATC
Page 45 and 46: 1. Strong-willed effective politici
Page 47 and 48: Manually calibrating the balance sp
Page 49 and 50: Blancpains with complications such
Page 51 and 52: IT IS ONE OF LIFE’S CRUEL IRONIES
Page 53 and 54: A piece for connoisseurs: The Tourb
Page 55 and 56: Introducing the Limited Réveil GMT
Page 57 and 58: 54 | 55 The Corton Corton Hill, Cô
Page 59 and 60: muted whatever individual expressio
Page 61 and 62: After preaching his non-interventio
Page 63 and 64: Next up the white ladder was the Me
Page 65 and 66: IS BORN BY JEFFREY S. KINGSTON Dril
Page 67 and 68: SHORT TAKES FROM THE BLANCPAIN NEWS
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BLANCPAIN OPENS ITS FIRST BOUTIQUE
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BLANCPAIN. TRADITION OF INNOVATION.
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