The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was one of two dive watches to go to market in 1953 at the Baselworld trade fair (Rolex would officially release the Submariner in 1954). By 1956, when recreational diving ...

Synonymous with aquatic adventures, the iconic Fifty Fathoms traces its origins back to 1953 when Blancpain unveiled the world's first modern diver's watch, a groundbreaking instrument designed to ...

Fifty Fathoms is perhaps one of the most recognizable and emblematic watch ranges for Blancpain. In the Swiss watchmaker’s latest launch, the iconic line welcomes two new references, the Bathyscaphe ...

Since its unveiling in the late 1950s, the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe was designed as a gentleman’s dive watch in a size that that can be worn every day. In many ways this timepiece was well ...

WHEN Blancpain introduced the revolutionary Fifty Fathoms in 1953, it set a new benchmark in the watchmaking industry for what professional dive watches could be: rugged, purposeful, precise, and ...

Back in June, Blancpain launched the first-ever all-ceramic version of a Fifty Fathoms diver. The ultramodern, ultratough take on the original dive watch took the ceramic Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe — ...

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is typically credited as the first modern dive watch, having first debuted on the wrists of French Navy divers in 1953. The iconic dive watch has come a long way since then ...

Une Bathyscaphe Quantième Complet Phases de Lune habillée de céramique noire pour plongeurs de luxe. La céramique, c'est chic, y compris pour l'une des plus célèbres des montres de plongée qui soient, ...

C'est en 1953 que Jean-Jacques Fiechter (directeur de Blancpain entre 1950 et 1980), le capitaine Robert Maloubier et Claude Riffaud (deux héros de la France libre et fondateurs du corps des nageurs ...

You could be forgiven for assuming that when it comes to mechanical watches, making the movements is the difficult part, and everything else just slots into place. Sometimes that might well be ...