IF ONLY WALLS COULD SPEAK - Blancpain

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NEWS A NEW TRADITION THE OCCASION OF BLANCPAIN’S 270TH ANNIVERSARY FURNISHED A REASON TO REFLECT ON THE MANUFACTURE’S PAST TRIUMPHS
IS BORN BY JEFFREY S. KINGSTON Drilled into every successful businessman, athlete, politician or artist, is a keen sense of the present and a blocking of the past. We are taught never to dwell upon either past accomplishments or failures, instead to look ever forward. However, the occasion of <strong>Blancpain</strong>’s 270th Anniversary furnished a reason to break from discipline and reflect on the Manufacture’s past triumphs. What <strong>Blancpain</strong> found was astonishing to even the longest term employees. Living in the present, the entire organization had lost track of just how long a list of world firsts and world records was embedded in its past. Gathering this history together, provided an inspiration. What more fitting way to mark an important anniversary for the Manufacture than to produce an exhibit celebrating these achievements. Thus the exhibit “A Tradition of Innovation” was born. Consisting of more than 19 pieces, this exhibit and an accompanying special edition hard cover book presented such 62 | 63
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APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS A Classical Col
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DEAR FELLOW WATCH CONNOISSEURS Welc
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CONTENT IF ONLY WALLS COULD SPEAK p
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The Le Brassus atelier known within
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06 | 07 Stairway to the upstairs wo
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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 and 18: 14 | 15 APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS: A CLAS
Page 19 and 20: APOTHEOSIS TEMPORIS Ultraplate APOT
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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: Next up the white ladder was the Me
Page 67 and 68: SHORT TAKES FROM THE BLANCPAIN NEWS
Page 69 and 70: BLANCPAIN OPENS ITS FIRST BOUTIQUE
Page 72: BLANCPAIN. TRADITION OF INNOVATION.
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