Blancpain is a Swiss watch manufacturer, currently part of the Swatch Group’s Prestige and Luxury division.

Jehan-Jacques Blancpain (b. March 11, 1693) founded this company 1735 in Villeret. Until 1932, when Frederic Emile Blancpain died at the age of 69 years, Blancpain has been family owned. In the 1920s and 1930s, Blancpain manufactured the first watches with automatic winding in series production. These models had the sonorous name “Harwood” (1926), based on the patents of the English engineer John Harwood, and “Rolls” (1930), based on a contract with the Leon Hatot S.A., Paris.