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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve seen plenty of blacked-out dive watches before, but how about a blued-out diver? That’s the direction Blancpain has taken with its latest update to the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe dive watch line ...

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 ...

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 ...

If dive watches had a uniform, it would be a stainless steel case paired with a blue dial. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but Blancpain has seen fit to shake up the genre’s aesthetic status quo ...