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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantième Complet Phases de Lune. The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was one of two dive watches ...

Blancpain has just released a watch I can’t stop thinking about (I know, it’s only been like 60 minutes… but still). It’s called the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, and it marks 70 years since the model ...

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is generally regarded as the first modern dive watch, initially created for the French Navy in 1953. Today, Blancpain is a prestigious luxury brand, and the modern Fifty ...

In 1953, Blancpain’s then-CEO and passionate diver Jean-Jacques Fiechter made two consequential decisions: he released the Fifty Fathoms—one of the world’s first commercially available dive ...

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: ...

Nowadays, you can hardly throw a dead fish without hitting another new dive watch brand. The availability of Far East shops that will stamp out a few hundred watch cases based on a napkin sketch means ...

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 ...

Blancpain is marking 70 years of one of its most enduring dive watches with a reissue of a vintage favorite — vintage sizing included. The Swiss watchmaker launched the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe in ...

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 ...

The first bathyscaphe was the FNRS-2, designed by Swiss scientist-adventurer Auguste Piccard and funded by the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (whose initials gave the submersible ...