At Bangkok Watch Week 2026, Wei Koh and Constant Kwong visit Blancpain’s pop-up at Siam Paragon to revisit one of the most important chapters in modern mechanical watchmaking: the Six Masterpieces. When Jacques Piguet and Jean-Claude Biver took control of Blancpain in 1981, the Swiss mechanical watch industry was still emerging from the quartz crisis. Their response was not to compete on accuracy or affordability, but to remind collectors what traditional mechanical watchmaking could achieve at its highest level. What followed was an extraordinary sequence of watches. Wei and Constant trace the story from Blancpain’s complete calendar with moonphase and the remarkably thin hand-wound Villeret, through the automatic perpetual calendar, minute repeater, automatic chronograph and split-seconds chronograph, before arriving at the pioneering flying tourbillon. Along the way, they explore the people and movements behind this remarkable period, including Jacques Piguet, Jean-Claude Biver, Edmond Capt and the extraordinary technical resources of Frédéric Piguet. The story culminates in 1991 with the Blancpain 1735 Grand Complication, which brought together the technical language of the Six Masterpieces into one extraordinary watch combining a perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, minute repeater and tourbillon. More than three decades later, these watches remain some of the most fascinating creations of the neo-vintage era, and, in Wei’s view, some of the most compelling values in collecting today.