ISSUE 04 ISSUE 04 BERTIN’S FIELD NO HOLDS Exquisite Chambertins THE PURITY BARRED II OF SILENCE Switzerland’s Exotic «Fifty Fathoms Automatique» (ref. 5015-1130-52) Blancpain’s Revolutionary New Carrousel Movement Tête de Moine Cheese WWW.BLANCPAIN.COM 2008 2008 EDITORIAL Publisher BLANCPAIN SA Le Rocher 12 1348 Le Brassus Switzerland Tel.: +41 21 796 36 36 www.blancpain.com
[email protected] Project Management Christel Räber Editors in chief Christel Räber Jeffrey S. Kingston Contributors to this issue Dietmar Fuchs Jeffrey S. Kingston Didier Schmutz Translations Susan Jacquet Concept, Graphic Design, Realisation thema communications ag, Frankfurt, Germany Art Direction Frank Dillmann Pre-press Karpf Kreative Bildbearbeitung, Aschaffenburg, Germany Goldbeck Art, Frankfurt, Germany Printing Caruna Druck, Kleinheubach, Germany Photographers Blancpain, Bruges Tourist Office, John Fulton, Jeffrey S. Kingston, Andreas Koschate, Willy Moret, Thierry Parel, Jos Schmid, Hugues de Wurstemberger Printed in August 2008 | 01 DEAR FELLOW WATCH ENTHUSIASTS, Welcome to Issue No. 4 of Lettres du Brassus. If you have been a subscriber to Lettres, I think that you will notice a theme that spans this issue and the two issues immediately preceding it. For the third issue in a row, we are proud to introduce a major new Blancpain movement. In Issue No. 2 we featured the eight day power reserve 13R0; in Issue No. 3 it was the 1315 three barrel automatic calibre that powers the Fifty Fathoms; and now in this issue we highlight our new Blancpain Carrousel. Our Carrousel feature story is much more than a description of a new movement. It has given us the opportunity to tell a previously unspoken history of our Blancpain Flying Tourbillon.