Reading Time: 3 minutes Blancpain is proud to announce that its close friend and partner Laurent Ballesta has won the Grand Title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. His winning image, titled Creation, is the world’s first to capture a wildlife event that happens once a year under a full moon: the mating frenzyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes As founding partner of the Gombessa expeditions, Blancpain has supported the sixth odyssey of diver, biologist and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta. Entitled “Mission Cap Corse”, Gombessa VI aims to unravel the mystery of the “coral rings” that cover the Mediterranean off the coast of Cap Corse, at a depth ofContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Continuing its partnership with Laurent Ballesta, Blancpain is backing the fifth Gombessa expedition, a new exploration mission taking place in the Mediterranean off the French coast throughout July. For the first time ever, the expedition combines saturation diving with scuba using closed circuit rebreathers. The objective is to reveal theContinue Reading