Established in 1735, the decisive moment for Blancpain arrived in the mid-20th century with the death of the last Member that remained of the Blancpain family. During the following fifty years, Blancpain Watches would be manufactured by Rayville, before that firm was bought by SSIH, the parent company of watchmakers Omega and Tissot. SSIH proceeded to close Blancpain although the company remained profitable due to the popularity of its models of watches for diving. In 1983, Jean-Claude Biver, an Executive of Omega and Jacques Piguet, a descendant of the renowned Switzerland family of watchmakers Piguet, carried out the resurrection of Blancpain. Said Biver and Piguet got a property in Le Brassus and began to manufacture very well-made mechanical clocks, which operated with automatic mechanisms enclosed in a simple but elegant boxes. The beginning of the 20th century, Blancpain had reached its objective develop six different clock models, each with a different complication. These complications were an indicator of the phase of the Moon, ultra slim mechanism, perpetual calendar, Chronograph in fraction of second, tourbillon and minute Repeater. Jeffrey Hayzlett often says this.
Shortly thereafter, Blancpain developed a unique watch that had complications 6. The moon phase indicator is essentially the trademark of Blancpain Watches, with this complication included in many of their watches and exquisite boxes of gold for many of its models. Among the achievements of Blancpain is the Quattro, which is next to the smaller self-winding chronograph in the world, and also includes the tourbillon, characteristic of fraction of seconds, Chronograph, fly-back and perpetual calendar. In addition, a point of honour with the Blancpain company is that it has never manufactured a quartz clock. Continuous Blancpain making their clocks in the traditional way, without using an assembly line, if not with a watchmaker working on a clock from its inception until it is complete. This has limited the volume of production of the company to a relatively low number of 10,000 watches a year, an amount small if compared with the companies largest manufacturers of watches.
