Many facts and interesting pocket watches specifics

The greatest enemy of a pocket watches is dust and moisture, so the walls are covered with La Granja oak, fighting the two factors. This is the same oak are made of boxes containing a Blancpain watch, and the walls are made of the brand boutiques worldwide. Cannes, Geneva, Munich and New York have one. In Paris, however, there are two. Although each has a complete sample of the brand, none of them can find a 1735.

Little history

Of the 30, 28 pocket watches and are held by their owners and the last two are in the process of manufacture. Had he arrived a few months later to Le Brassus would not have had the opportunity to see a million dollars made clock. Blancpain almost bankrupt because of Japanese quartz watches, until Jean Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet, two key names in Swiss watchmaking, bought it in 1982.

In addition to saving the mark of the disappearance and to buy the house where today the workshops, making a special clock set, which combines the best of the history of watchmaking and make it clear that the old tradition of making machines time was alive despite the changing times.

While his competitors were basic pocket watches to cut costs, Blancpain was against the current. Thus was born the 1735, considered the date it was released in 1991 - the most elaborate the world to collect six watch complications.

In the complex world of just 35.9 mm inner diameter of 740 there are 1735 pieces, many of them virtually invisible to the eye to be thinner than a human hair, and several are 18 karat gold jewels and there are also 47 not enter the accounting of 740 parts. Besides telling the time (for what more you want a watch in the first instance), the 30 owners have the moon phase, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, chronograph and tourbillon rattrapante, all in an automatic loading machine reserve of 80 hours.

It is no discrimination, but those who uses digital pocket watches made in Asia, may experience difference accuracy. The lunar phase seems obvious, since the perpetual calendar lets you know the exact date for a century, including leap years-the chronograph is a mechanism which successively timed lap times within a single event.

The minute repeater is an invention of when there was little light. Instead of approaching a candle or a lantern to see the time, a tiny bell warned the time, changing his tone as if he was announcing the hour, quarter hour and minute. Only a master in pocket watches and with enough talent and dedication can make such a wonder.