Blancpain Creates Its First Porcelain Dial For The Year Of The Rat

Against this background, after more than a year of development and testing, the Maison is now unveiling its first porcelain dials entirely designed and produced in-house Involving several steps punctuated by long drying and firing phases, creating a porcelain dial requires dexterity and patience Presented in the form of a powder mainly composed of quartz, feldspar and kaolin, porcelain is first diluted in water.

The enamel is then rigorously applied by hand to each dial, before a second 24-hour firing at 1,300°C that serves to vitrify the porcelain and make it shiny, translucent and enduringly stable The Métiers d'Art Porcelaine special edition combines the art of porcelain with enamel painting A lengthy 1,200°C firing stage fixes the colors on the porcelain.

The ability to achieve such a temperature, which would be impossible with an enamel dial on a gold base, opens up whole new fields of possibility in terms of both color and intensity. . Source