Whereas this period of Blancpain is usually advised principally as a narrative of promoting genius due to Biver and people catchy slogans, there was additionally some actual watchmaking. Biver’s accomplice, Piguet, was the son of ebauche maker Frédéric Piguet. Collectively, Piguet and Biver put collectively a plan to create what we now name Blancpain’s “six masterpieces.” These have been six mechanical watches with issues harkening again to the times of conventional Swiss watchmaking, days that many thought may by no means return after the quartz disaster: an entire calendar moonphase, ultra-thin, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, and flying tourbillon. All six masterpieces got here in conventional, spherical, 34mm circumstances, and also you’ll see them engraved with their manufacturing quantity on the caseback.
