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canadajo wrote:man o man ! ..... that is a sweetheart ..... it go's without saying that Blancpain makes superlative watches.....I would think they are elite like Rolex , Vacharon Constatin and Patek , etc. ?
Yes...but, Blancpain does not, as a SWATCH owned company, use a proprietary movement as do the others mentioned...although one could argue that since SWATCH also owns ETA, the movements are proprietary!!!
Well, but Blancpain doesn't use ETA movements-- they uses much more high end stuff-- a number of which were designed specifically and exclusively for Blancpain. The caliber F185 in that FF Air Command is actually a F. Piguet 1185, which was exclusively designed for Blancpain by Frederic Piquet in 1988. At the time it was the world's smallest and thinnest automatic chronograph movement. Nowadays the F. Piguet 1185 is the base caliber for chronographs from Cartier, Audemars Piguet, and Vacheron Constantin. Not bad company.
Last edited on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 06:06 pm by obsidian