In 1953, sport watches as we know them today were born, and one of several important models that debuted that year was the Blancpain Fifty-Fathoms — it was one of the first modern dive watches. Now, ...

What is certain is that in 1953, Blancpain launched one of the world’s first contemporary dive watches. Though others had been developed earlier for military purposes, it was Blancpain—along ...

Hot on the heels of releasing full ceramic versions of the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantième Complet Phases de Lune and Bathyscaphe Chronograph Flyback, Blancpain is giving both models the full ...

Learn more 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 ...

Named after Swatch’s ’90s Scuba divers and Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms dive-watch range, the new collection takes inspiration from the luxury brand’s timepiece that set the blueprint for ...

Swatch The Scuba Fifty Fathoms, meanwhile, has evolved into more of an “if you know, you know” type of watch. Over the weekend, Swatch dropped just the second new Blancpain diver since the original ...

Now in its eighth decade, Blancpain’s emblematic Fifty Fathoms dive watch collection is joined by a gleaming newcomer in steel.

But if there were, in dive watches, an OG of OGs, there’s a very solid case to be made for the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. For those not versed in nautical terminology, a fathom is a unit of depth ...

But Blancpain’s checklist ... the list was a bracelet that would be as durable and resilient as a high-end dive watch would demand. The zirconium oxide used is known for its surface hardness ...

To mark the rerelease of the Scubaqua, we took a look some water-ready timepieces from the Swiss brand. Strap in!

When Blancpain launched the Fifty Fathoms dive watch in 1953, it transformed the watchmaking industry. “It pretty much delivered the blueprint to any other dive watch that has come since then ...

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 ...