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Given the hype, you’d assume Rolex or Omega launched the first dive watch, however the Swiss company Blancpain was once proper there neck-in-neck with Rolex in 1953 with the launch of its famed Fifty Fathoms.

The French Navy’s elite SCUBA squad, known as the Nageur de Combat, had distinctive a wide variety of facets for the watch: a locking timing bezel to guarantee dive instances didn’t get overextended, an auto-winding motion to limit put on on the crown threads, and a leak warning gadget — in this case a smart dot on the dial that would flip pink if moisture was once present. Dubbed the Fifty Fathoms, this watch grew to become the purposeful and aesthetic template for endless dive watches to follow.

By the 1970s, Blancpain had bent the aesthetics of the Fifty Fathoms towards the disco-era’s blingy vibes, all in an strive to maintain tempo with a new breed of watches loosely known as “luxury activity watches.” The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak sparked the trend, however the Fifty-Fathoms in its 70s get-up didn’t suffer the upward shove of digital quartz watches in the 1980s.

A few acquisitions of Blancpain went with the aid of earlier than new administration launched the Fifty Fathoms once more in 2007, this time the usage of the authentic designs as inspiration. Watch followers the world over swooned. Since 2007, the Fifty Fathoms series has swelled to encompass over 70 watches, making this one of the biggest and most various dive watch collections reachable today. Models vary from 1950s-styled look-alikes, to giant cutting-edge affairs, to watches with mechanical issues — and there’s even a good-looking tribute to these blingy 70s models.

Common Features of Modern Fifty Fathoms

-In-house mechanical movements

-Silicone stability springs

-Unidirectional sapphire or ceramic timing bezels

-At least 300 meters (30 bar) of water resistance

-Relatively skinny instances (for a dive watch) coming in round 13mm on most models

Blancpain Men's 5025.3630.52 Fifty Fathoms Tourbillon Rose Gold Watch



18K rose gold case, Black canvas strap, Deployment buckle, Black dial, eight day electricity reserve show at the 6 o'clock, Tourbillon show at the 12 o'clock, Anti-reflective scratch resistant sapphire crystal, Automatic mechanical motion (Caliber 25A), Water resistant to 300 meters/ one thousand feet.

Showcasing brilliant tourbillon motion and a amazing rose-gold construction, the Blancpain Men's Fifty Fathoms Tourbillon Rose Gold Watch is important solely of terrific connoisseurs. This extraordinary timepiece is developed with an antimagnetic 18-karat-rose-gold case, a unidirectional black-and-rose-gold bezel, and a black canvas wristband secured with an adjustable buckle clasp. A scratch-resistant-sapphire window shields the black dial, which points a skeleton window underneath the 12 o'clock function that fantastically indicates off its tourbillon movement. The dial additionally consists of luminous rose-gold hour markers with Arabic numerals at three, six, and 9 o'clock. The dial additionally consists of a rose-gold ring marked with slim minute indexes, luminous watch hands, and an eight-day energy reserve indicator above the six o'clock position. Powered through top-quality tourbillon movement, this timepiece is water resistant to 984 toes (300 M). It is introduced in a padded burlwood watch case.