Blancpain is one of the oldest Swiss watch brands but it was on the verge of death before being taken over by Jean-Claude Biver. This was of course before Bivers purchase of Hublot, and before Blancpain he was at Omega. Biver is said to have pretty much saved Blancpain (just as he did with Hublot) a good thing because today, despite the brands literal English translation of white bread, very few boring things are going on inside the manufacture. Biver sold Blancpain to the Swatch Group a few years ago. The brands CEO right now is Marc Hayek, one of (the late and regrettably lost) Nicolas Hayeks sons. His rule of the brand has taken it into a series of different directions, and Blancpain has a few distinct personalities as a watch maker. Those personalities include being a classic watch maker, a complicated watch maker, and dive watch maker, a racing watch maker, and a contemporary high-end complex avant garde watch maker. They also have adopted a mechanism similar to the tourbillon c...
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