The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is typically credited as the first modern dive watch, having first debuted on the wrists of French Navy divers in 1953. The iconic dive watch has come a long way since then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blancpain pulled a fast one. But I really can’t complain. Less than a week ago, the original dive watch was revealed in a much-anticipated 38mm case size for the first time. The catch was that it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many historic watchmaking names in Switzerland, Blancpain was all but bankrupted by the success of cheap quartz watches ...

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 ...

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 ...