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Jean
Blanchet was a Swiss watchmaker who grew up in France (Lyon) where his father Pierre Blanchet owned a small watch dial factory. Since youth, Jean Blanchet was fascinated by the French and Swiss watches tradition. He launch his own watch manufacturing in 1789. From the first steps his company had
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Yves took over the company in 1852, when Jean died during an accident. Four years later he moved close to the Lake of Geneva, in Coppet, to perfection his watchmaking technique and start his own business "Manufacture d'Horologerie
Blanchet & Cie".
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In 1828 Jean
Blanchet married Laura Wilson, the daughter of an English ambassador. One year later she gave birth to their son Yves Blanchet. In the age of 20 he decided to go to the Royal School of watchmaking (Ecole Royale de l'Horlogerie de
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Among the admirers of
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Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, G.H. Baillie, Nag Press, Vol. 1 (1951).
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commissioned some models as present for French Army officers.
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is an historic watch brand stated in
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