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 was one of the original dive watches to emerge from the race to wristwatch water-resistance in the early 1950s. By 1956, when recreational diving started to emerge as a ...

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 ...

Blancpain recently unveiled the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Blue Abyss, a timepiece that dares to take the plunge into the deepest shades of the ocean. Eschewing fanfare for quiet revelation, the brand ...

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Watch and jewellery retailer, Bucherer, has added to its exclusive line of models bearing the firm’s signature shade of blue, this time bringing Blancpain’s suave diver, the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, ...

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 ...

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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: ...