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Jehan-Jacques Blancpain (born 1693) was a Swiss industrialist at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Blancpain is a notable figure in the history of watchmaking , who created the Blancpain in 1735 (the oldest registered watch brand in the world), in the town of Villeret , of which he was mayor.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain started making watches in 1735 in Villeret, Switzerland. [4] [5] He founded the Blancpain brand, setting up his first workshop on the upper floor of his house at Villeret, in the present-day Bernese Jura. [4] [5] This part of the history is disputed. According to Perezcope, there is no evidence that Jehan-Jacques ...
Blancpain: 1735 [1] [2] Villeret [1] [2] Jehan-Jacques Blancpain [1] [2] Paudex/Le Brassus: Subsidiary The Swatch Group: Marc Hayek Bovet Fleurier: 1822 Edouard Bovet: Geneva: Privately held company: Breguet: 1775 [1] [2] Paris, France Abraham-Louis Breguet [1] [2] L'Abbaye: Subsidiary: The Swatch Group: Nicolas G. Hayek: Breitling SA: 1884 [1 ...
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain (1693–?), Swiss watchmaker, Villeret. Founder of watch company Blancpain. John Harrison (1693–1776), English carpenter and autodidact watchmaker, London, chronometer; Johann Jacob Möllinger (1695–1763), German watchmaker, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, the Palatinate privileged watchmaker.
Founded by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, Blancpain becomes the first registered watch brand in the world. [11] Births.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain; Conway Blennerhassett; Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon; Jean-Baptiste de Brancas; Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow; Šimon Brixi; Daniel Brodhead II; John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire; Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin; Adriaan van der Burg; Johann Christian Buxbaum
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