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 ...

If you’re a watch enthusiast, you’ve heard of Blancpain. The brand is well-known for creating the original modern dive watch in 1953 with its Fifty Fathoms. For many casual fans of the brand, their ...

The Swatch Group was also out in force with Breguet’s new Tradition Chronographe Indépenant 7707 in blue, Blancpain presented a black ceramic Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe flyback chronograph, and we ...

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 Bathyscaphe — ...

Watch and jewellery retailer, Bucherer, has added to its exclusive line of models bearing the firm’s signature shade of blue, this time bringing Blancpain’s suave diver, the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, ...

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 ...

Retailer-exclusive watches might read as a modern invention – a symptom, perhaps, of the craze for limited editions that has been gathering pace in recent years. But, in fact, putting a retailer’s ...