IF ONLY WALLS COULD SPEAK - Blancpain

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 Blancpain’s 270th Anniversary
furnished a reason to break from discipline
and reflect on the Manufacture’s past
triumphs. What Blancpain 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
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