February 12, 2009 Just a few weeks back, we wrote about an exhibition celebrating the Blancpain 50 fathoms watch, one of the most desirable technological boys' toys of the last half century. Now, on ...

Swatch has revealed a new model of its Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, in a green and beige colour way called Green Abyss. Priced at £350, the watch will be available at select Swatch stores from 7th June, ...

JEAN-Jacques Fiechter, chief executive officer of Blancpain from 1950 to 1980 and an avid diver, realised the need for a reliable, readable and water-resistant underwater tool when he ran out of air ...

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Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. The ...

When venerable Swiss marque Blancpain introduced its first diving watch in 1953, it was thought that 50 fathoms, or 91 meters, was the deepest a man could dive on SCUBA. Hence the name of their ...

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 ...

Splash! That’s the sound of the most anticipated watch launch of the year (can we say any year?) dropping. The follow-up to the Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch. First came last Thursday’s teaser ad, ...

Act 1, a limited edition of 210 pieces—three sets of 70—was not much of a departure from recent designs (date window at 4 o’clock, 300-meter water resistance, domed sapphire bezel insert), with the ...

Any literary geek will tell you that an Act 3 always involves a climax – a resolution of sorts where any subplots are tied up. Shakespeare springs to mind, and Blancpain has applied the same principle ...