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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. [1]
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain registers himself as a watchmaker in the Villeret village records. He is the founder of the eponymous watch brand which will remain family-owned, handed down to his descendants, for almost 200 years.
In 1815, Frédéric-Louis Blancpain, the great-grandson of Jehan-Jacques, who was head of the family business at the time, modernized production methods and transformed the traditional craft workshop into an industrial undertaking capable of serial production.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain, the founder of the eponymous watch brand, was for sure an eclectic and busy man having worked as a breeder of horses and cattle, a school teacher, a watchmaker and, later in his life, as the mayor of Villeret, a municipality in the Jura administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
In 1735, in the small village of Villeret located in a remote corner of the Swiss Jura mountains, school master and farmer Jehan-Jacques Blancpain—during the winter months, when the snow made working in the fields impossible—devoted himself to the chronicling of time as he embarked on the career of watch- making.
Nov 17, 2018 · From founder Jehan-Jacques Blancpain and the start of the business in 1735 to the great successes of the 1950s under the management of Betty Fiechter and his nephew Jean Jacques, who designed the Fifty Fathoms, till our days under the wing of the Swatch Group, we chronicle the history of Blancpain, the oldest watch brand.
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Oct 17, 2011 · Directly in front of the original Jehan-Jacques farmhouse, Blancpain constructed a new two storey factory which for the first time employed water power from the bordering Suze river to generate electricity.
