Visiting The Blancpain Haute Horology Watch Manufacture
Blancpain is one of the oldest Swiss watch brands but it was on the verge of death before being taken over by Jean-Claude Biver. This was of course before Biver's purchase of Hublot, and before Blancpain he was at Omega. Biver is said to have pretty much saved Blancpain (just as he did with Hublot) �C a good thing because today, despite the brand's literal English translation of white bread, very few boring things are going on inside the manufacture.Biver sold Blancpain to the Swatch Group a few years ago. The brand's CEO right now is Marc Hayek, one of (the late and regrettably lost) Nicolas Hayek's sons. His rule of the brand has taken it into a series of different directions, and Blancpain has a few distinct personalities as a watch maker. Those personalities include being a classic watch maker, a complicated watch maker, and dive watch maker, a racing watch maker, and a contemporary high-end complex avant garde watch maker. They also have adopted a mechanism similar to the tourbil

Happy birthday to me
Something you guys would like here ...my favourite watch and a birthday cake to go with it

Anyone own PO with diamond bezel?
if so, mind sharing what you paid and where from?Thanks in advance!

Going to pick up my first Panerai this week!
I have had a 111 on my radar for years now and I am going to the store here in NYC to do a little shopping this week.I'm 99 percent sure I am going to go with the 111 but wanted to get some thoughts on some other models to try on while I'm there.I really like the dials that fall on the simpler side but if there are things like better movement inside etc I don't mind spending a little more.Thanks so much for your thoughts!

Please help me choose the first!
I know I've read this before but I can't choose, I love them both.It's a wedding gift/life accomplishment piece. I jut go back and fourth every time I look at my wrist. I feel like I need some swaying. This watch will stay with me forever, I wish I could get both but thats not an option. It may be my one and only watch for a very, very long time.Sub with dateTT DJ 41 Champagne dial with jubilee braceletwhat one to choose!?!