Female Fifty Fathoms

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn June 2021, Blancpain announced its partnership with Oceanographic Magazine and its Ocean Photography Awards (OPA). To mark the occasion, the Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie created the special Female Fifty Fathoms (FFF) Award to encourage more women to share their vision of the oceans. The competition organisers and Blancpain revealedContinue Reading

"Mission Cap Corse": the sixth Gombessa expedition supported by Blancpain

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs 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

United Nations World Oceans Day 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutesBlancpain is proud to announce its association, as presenting partner, for the 2021 edition of the annual United Nations World Oceans Day – hosted by Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), and produced in partnership with Oceanic Global. In addition to this role, Blancpain looksContinue Reading

The mysteries of Mont La Pérouse

Reading Time: 3 minutesBlancpain is thrilled to announce the release of the documentary “The mysteries of Mont La Pérouse“. This feature unveils a type of geological formations of vital importance to our ocean’s biodiversity: seamounts. There are estimated to be several tens of thousands of these underwater mountains found throughout the world, however,Continue Reading

Fregate Island

Reading Time: 4 minutesSince 2018, Blancpain and Fregate Island Private have joined forces to study, restore and preserve the marine environment around the island. Coralive.org and BlueNomads.org led the field projects with additional support from the Green Islands Foundation, and the Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust. A new short film illustrates theseContinue Reading