Maison 50 of 100 · Haute Horology
Blancpain
The reading
Invented the modern dive watch in 1953, then refused quartz. Villeret is the dress counterweight. Swatch Group’s most patrimonial manufacture after Breguet.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1735
- Atelier
- Haute Horology
- Ownership
- Swatch Group
- Signature
- Fifty Fathoms / Villeret
- Register note
- Fifty Fathoms origin This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
It is one of sixteen maisons filed here from Switzerland, the third-largest national group in the register. It is the 2nd-oldest house in the register. This register files four houses to Swatch Group; the others are Harry Winston, Omega and Breguet. Counted inside its own room it stands 10th of the eighteen houses this register files under Haute Horology. It is the only house in this register founded in the 1730s. It is the oldest house this register files under Haute Horology. Five countries are represented in Haute Horology here, and this house files to Switzerland. The highest-ranked Haute Horology house here is Rolex, at No. 41.