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Although Blancpain has been making bigger waves of late with its Fifty Fathoms dive watches, a category that it practically pioneered in 1953, the brand’s epochal work on women’s watches appears to have been rather understated.

Did you know, for instance, that Blancpain debuted the first self-winding wristwatch made exclusively for women, called the Rolls, in 1930? Or that the brand was once

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