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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 ...
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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.
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The first head of the firm was named Jehan Gobelin (d. 1476). He discovered a peculiar kind of scarlet dyestuff, and he expended so much money on his establishment that it was named by the common people la folie Gobelin. To the dye-works there was added in the 16th century a manufactory of tapestry. [1]
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