Blancpain Automatic Villeret Ultra-slim Dresswatch white dial ref. B0021 1127 55Blancpain was founded in 1735 by Jehan Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, making it one of the oldest existing watch brands in the world. Interestingly enough, Blancpain refused to produceand still refuses to producequartz driven watches, even during the 1970s when nearly 40 percent of Swiss watchmakers went bankrupt during the Quartz Crisis. At the time, they proudly used the slogan: Since 1735, there has never been a quartz Blancpain watch.