First Look: Blancpain Goes Vintage with the New Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary

Blancpain Revives a 1968 Skin Diver for the Bathyscaphe's 70th Birthday

Skin diver proportions, a 100-hour movement, and just 300 numbered pieces worldwide.

Blancpain Travels Back to the 1960s for One of the Best Modern Fifty Fathoms Divers Yet

Dive watches don’t get much better than this. Blancpain If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is generally regarded as the first modern dive watch, initially created for the French Navy in 1953. Today, Blancpain is a prestigious luxury brand, and the modern Fifty Fathoms stands as the pinnacle of dive watches. But there’s just something magical about the vintage Fifty Fathoms watches of th…

First Look: Blancpain Goes Vintage with the new Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary

While the fact that the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was one of the earliest dive watches on the market is now well-known, this professional, mostly military-issued model wasn’t the only one produced by the brand. There is another watch in the collection that was created back in 1956, as the civilian counterpart to the Fifty Fathoms […]

Introducing: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary Limited Edition

What We Know The 1950s were big years for Blancpain—first in 1953 with the introduction of the Fifty Fathoms, then a few short years later in 1956, when the Bathyscaphe arrived as a "civilian counterpart" as diving gained popularity. Revived in 2013, it's remained a core part of the modern Fifty Fathoms lineup ever since. We're not strangers to the Bathyscaphe here at Hodinkee, either—we teamed up with Blancpain on our own limited edition back i…