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+ | ====== Manufacture Blancpain ====== | ||
+ | **Manufacture Blancpain** is a Swiss movement manufacturer paired with [[Blancpain]] and owned by [[Swatch Group]]. It was formerly known as **[[Frédéric Piguet|Frédéric Piguet SA]]** or **F. Piguet** and traces its history in [[Le Brassus]] and [[Le Sentier]] to watchmaker Louis-Elisée Piguet in [[1858]]. | ||
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+ | ===== Louis-Elisée Piguet ===== | ||
+ | Louis-Elisée Piguet (1836-1924) began producing [[ebauche movement]]s in [[1858]]. Originally founded in [[Le Brassus]], the company has remained in that village and the neighboring [[Le Sentier]] for over 150 years. After his apprenticeship, | ||
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+ | Louis Elisée Piguet is credited for creating the first [[perpetual calendar]] module, a complication that his company is still known for. He also created a working [[grande sonnerie]] mechanism based on the design of his teacher, [[Golay, Henri|Henri Golay]], and Frédéric Piguet has returned to this design repeatedly over the years. Piguet' | ||
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+ | ===== Frédéric Piguet ===== | ||
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+ | Frédéric Piguet was especially well-known for [[ultra-thin]] movements for use in luxury watches. These rivaled those produced by [[Piaget]], the leader in this space through the 1960s, and were in high demand. | ||
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+ | ===== Piguet and Blancpain ===== | ||
+ | Upon his death in [[1977]], Frédéric' | ||
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+ | In [[1981]], Jacques Piguet and [[Jean-Claude Biver]] bought the defunct [[Blancpain]] brand from [[SSIH]]. Biver directed the brand to focus exclusively on mechanical movements, calling it "the living museum of the past." Piguet set about creating "six masterpieces" | ||
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+ | Many of the developments from Frédéric Piguet in this period were notable Their [[moon phase indicator]] kicked off a trend for the complication in [[1982]]; they were the first company in modern times to produce a [[split-seconds chronograph]] and are credited for re-introducing this complication in [[1988]]; their [[tourbillon]] was only the second in a mass-produced wristwatch after [[Audemars Piguet]] in [[1989]]. The Frédéric Piguet tourbillon, [[FP 23|Cal. 23]], remains notable for using [[Vincent Calabrese|Calabrese]]' | ||
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+ | Edmond Capt's basic movements were important to Blancpain as well. In [[1985]] the company introduced the slim [[FP 810|Cal. FP 810]] and [[FP 951|Cal. FP 951]], which powered many simple watches for Blancpain, including smaller models for ladies. | ||
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+ | ===== Manufacture Blancpain ===== | ||
+ | The [[Swatch Group]] purchased Piguet and Blancpain in [[1992]]. In [[2010]], F. Piguet was renamed **Manufacture Blancpain**, | ||
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+ | One of the most-notable products of Manufacture Blancpain is [[Frederic Piguet 1185|Cal. 1185]], one of [[ultra-thin|the thinnest]] [[automatic chronograph]] movements in the world. This calibre is used by [[Audemars Piguet]] and [[Vacheron Constantin]] along with [[Breguet]] and Blancpain. Manufacture Blancpain also supplies movements for other Swatch Group companies, including [[Jaquet Droz]]. | ||
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+ | ===== Address ===== | ||
+ | Frédéric Piguet SA\\ Rue des Collèges 8\\ CH-1348 Le Brassus\\ Tel. +41 (0) 21 845 16 16\\ Fax +41 (0) 21 845 16 00 | ||
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+ | ===== External Links ===== | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
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