June 12 “How It’s Made” TV Show Features Blancpain
Blancpain and the Le Brassus Manufacture will be featured in How It’s Made 6: Luxury Watches (episode 8). The episode will air on the Science Channel Friday, June 12 at 9:00 p.m. EDT. Tune in to see Blancpain's master watchmakers hand assemble a movement and apply delicate hand finishing in accordance with the traditional arts and practices of fine watchmaking. The show will also air on the Science Channel at these times:June 13 at 12:00 a.m. EDTJune 14 at 4:00 a.m. EDTJune 15 at 4:00 p.m. EDTYou can also check the schedule at the Science Channel website.

Christopher Ward C8 P7350 Chronometer Watch
As of late, Christopher Ward has taken to generating quite a number of special, limited-edition watches. Some of these have taken the form of honoring military planes of the past, and yet others have delved into the realm of automobile racing, with some of those pieces actually incorporating metal from a specific vintage race car. Now, with their release of the Christopher Ward C8 P7350 Chronometer, we have a watch that carries metal that flew in the Battle of Britain.Given that the Battle of Britain happened in 1940, you might be tempted to think that they simply harvested the metal from a boneyard somewhere. That's actually not the case. There is still a Spitfire �C known as P7350, the 14th one to come off the line �C that is still in the air as part of the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. As you might imagine, they would not just give up pieces of such a historical plane willy-nilly. Instead, these bits come from a restoration of the plane that occurred back in 2008, and show

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