Blancpain

Ubik
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Another thought

Amazing watch, do you know anything more about it's history? (Like your website BTW)

This post started me thinking.

blancpain.watchprosite.com

Perhaps the serial numbers correspond not directly to order in the production line, or even to model numbers,
but in some way to who ordered it.

Say a batch of one hundred watches arrived, the first ten would be allocated to a specific customer with the internal Blancpain code of 7,
 this might then produce a run of twenty with the numbers 701 to 720, the next twenty might go to designate 14 and produce a run from 1401 to 1420.
You get the idea, then it would be perfectly possible for two watches that are consecutively produced to have the numbers
720 and 1401!

Obviously I'm totally reaching here and maybe completely off base and of course the first ones probably did have the straight three digit numbers seen (have any two digit numbers been seen?). Do we know what was produced inhouse and what was contracted out, e.g. dials or bezels?

Maybe there is another way of dating the watches that might be through the movements and their serial numbers?

Another thought, from the articles I've read LIP became a distributor very early, the dates I've seen have them retailing it in 1954.
If that is the case, and please correct me if I've got it wrong, why are there any FF's from this period not marked LIP
on the dial? Were they for export in Europe, or were they all designated for professional use of some sort? Did for example
the ones sold through Spirtoechnique have LIP on the dials, or did they order direct?

Do we know when Blancpain started exporting to the US? Do these movements show the import marks?




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