Blancpain was one of the most influential brands of the 1980s and whose implication and relevance in the rebirth of mechanical watchmaking cannot be highlighted enough. In 1981 Jean-Claude Biver and Jacques Piguet (the owner of the Frederic Piguet movement manufactory) bought the rights to the name Blancpain (who had more or less gone out of business in the 1970s) and made it into one of the greatest power houses of the end on the century.

In 1988 Blancpain introduced the ultra slim minute repeater and in 1993 introduced versions featuring automata depicting erotic scenes in the back.

Erotic watches were mainly seen in pocket watches of the 17th and 18th centuries either with enameled scenes hidden inside the hinge covers or even highly complex examples featuring automata.
As a homage to these highly complex and historically cheeky timepieces Blancpain offered – as unique pieces and often as custom orders-erotic minute repeaters with lavishly engraved characters moving to the rhythm of chimes. The present example also features a lovely enameled background representing a forest.

The present unique piece demonstrates the fact that Blancpain not only participated in the rebirth of complex mechanical mechanisms in the 1980s-1990s but also in the reintroduction of fine artistic crafts such as engraving and enameling in watchmaking.