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The second season of the “Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo” championship is now under way. The very first races have just ended on the Hockenheim circuit in Heidelberg, Germany. The new Blancpain-branded Gallardo LP560-4 cars vied with each other throughout the weekend within the context of the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) championship. Blancpain once again salutes [...]

A New Complete Calendar Moon Phase Flyback Chronograph Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms Collection is home to the most rugged sports watches in all of Blancpain’s lines. For 2010 Blancpain expands the Fifty Fathoms domain of sport to embrace the complications of a moon phase and a complete calendar married with the traditional sport companion of a [...]

Baselworld 2010 marks the 275th Anniversary for Blancpain and is the occasion for the debut of a new Villeret Collection. The first timepiece from this new series to be unveiled is a new complete calendar moon-phase model featuring a fully secure calendar mechanism, and under-lug correctors, fitted into a half-hunter red gold case. This new [...]

An authentic jewelery creation Manufacture in Le Brassus is presenting an authentic jeweler creation set with over 500 diamonds and pink sapphires, and housing the world’s smallest self-winding movement, Calibre 615. This extraordinary timepiece is to be issued in a symbolically limited edition of 14 to celebrate Valentine’s Day 2010. This exceptional creation is an [...]

Technical Specifications Ref. #: 2926-5222-55B SPÉCIALITÉS, Tourbillon set with baguette-cut diamonds, dial paved with 164 diamonds, diamond hands, clasp set with 16 diamonds, self-winding Caliber 25A Thickness 4,85 mm Diameter 23,90 mm Power-reserve in hours 168 Jewels 29 Components 238 Case White gold, bezel, case middle and back set with 571 diamonds, crown set with [...]

In May 2009, Swiss luxury watch company Blancpain and Lamborghini Manhattan teamed up for a special unveiling of the Blancpain Super Trofeo Chronograph and the Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SuperVeloce in New York. An exclusive cocktail reception for 70 guests was held at the Blancpain Boutique at Madison Avenue, New York. Guests had the unique [...]

Blancpain and the Le Brassus Manufacture will be featured in How It’s Made 6: Luxury Watches (Episode 8) Preview Episode: Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 9:00pm ET on the Science Channel Please tune in to witness Blancpain’s master watchmakers hand assemble a movement and apply the delicate hand finishing in accordance with the traditional arts [...]

Entirely New Watch Retail Concept; Second Tourbillon Boutique to open in the United States Weehawken, New Jersey (April 26, 2009) – The Swatch Group Ltd, the world’s largest watch company, announced today the expansion of an entirely new retail concept to the United States with the opening of the second Tourbillon Boutique on New York [...]

The high-powered alliance between two legends Blancpain and Lamborghini have joined forces in creating an exceptional automobile championship. Played out over six events per year, the Super Trofeo stars a field of 30 Lamborghini Gallardos. To celebrate these superlative races, the Manufacture in Le Brassus is presenting a Super Trofeo flyback chronograph, a resolutely sporting [...]

On the occasion of the 79th International Motor Show in Geneva, Marc A. Hayek and Stephan Winkelmann, the respective Presidents and CEOs of Blancpain and Lamborghini, set the seal on the exhilarating union of two legendary names. Just ahead of Baselworld 2009, Marc A. Hayek treated the press on the Lamborghini booth to a sneak [...]