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 ...

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 — ...

High-tech ceramic is an ideal material for any sports watch, and particularly diving. It is impervious to encounters with coral reefs, salt water, frigid temperatures. Ceramic is also easy to wear: ...

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 ...

While the Rolex Submariner may be the world’s most well recognized dive watch, it was Blancpain, with the introduction of the now-iconic Fifty Fathoms in 1953, that was the first to bring to market a ...

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 ...