fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo today we have two
classic-looking Blancpain Fifty Fathoms divers
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Blancpain the oldest Swiss watchmaker still in production today has their Fifty Fathoms series
which is their iconic diver one of the cleanest and most sought after dive watches in production
today they don't make a ton of them the production numbers at Blancpain are so low I consider just
about every model to be a limited production model so any Fifty Fathoms you're able to get your hands
on are going to be very special these two are definitely no exception these are some super clean
dressy almost looking divers the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe I hope I'm pronouncing that right it's
named after the diving vessel meant to go all the way to the deepest parts of the ocean and I think
that they call it that because unlike a submarine Bathyscaphe is meant to just simply go down as
far as it possibly can can't really maneuver a lot underneath the waves and because the Fifty
Fathoms come in so many different complications you can get them with Perpetual calendars flyback
chronographs really any complication you can think of the Fifty Fathoms probably has an addition that
comes with it this is a super clean super basic diver that just tells time and date it does have
the date window on both of these models we have here between 4 and 5 which I think is
where a lot of watchmakers will hide the date if they're really trying to make it subtle a 3
or a 6 o'clock date window is really going to be very obvious here when at first glance if you're
looking at the whole dial in case together you might not notice that this date window is there
and really I think in keeping with the the name of this watch they wanted to make this the simplest
version of the Fifty Fathoms diver but it is a super beautiful one and still has all of the you
know iconic features that you would really expect at least aesthetically from the Fifty Fathoms
mainly and one thing I love about it and it makes it one of my favorite dive models is the perfectly
flat crystal and bezel that's I think really the one iconic thing that you get here this is
a ceramic bezel as well as a shinier ceramic dial on this one so this is one of the things that's
unique about this one a a dark slate gray with a black ceramic bezel this is in a stainless steel
case and I also really love sort of the look of the small really small hour markers here and
a very large minute and hour hand I think that's one thing that makes this a much dressier looking
diver most dive pieces will have much larger markers for actual you know visibility under
the depths this one a little more fast and loose with the design here and they kept the markers
very small to make this super clean but it lights up incredibly bright which is one thing I really
love one thing that both of these have in common these are sail cloth straps original Blancpain
sailcloth straps with rubber lined on the inside they're incredibly comfortable as well as a really
really practical for a watch that you want to get wet I don't know how practical this is as a diaper
because of those tiny little markers but this is a fantastic watch to wear at the beach I think
or just by the pool or anywhere especially with this kind of strap these both come with exhibition
casebacks and the rotor particularly here the finishing on it is absolutely beautiful and again
super simple not a whole lot of fancy stuff that you can see from the back here but it's just such
a clean and dressy looking diver now we do have two of these here this is the more simple one in
stainless steel we also have another one also a 43-millimeter case everything's the same except
this is a beautiful blue color with the ceramic bezel and an all ceramic case which I think is
super super interesting the color here that you get this sort of dark gray almost looks like a
titanium which is not a color or a metal that I really particularly love the tone of especially
something is clean looking and dressy as this is however something about the finish on here
it's just reflect collective enough that it doesn't look such like so much like a rugged
tool watch but again like a really elegant piece that you could wear with a suit definitely dresses
up nicer than just about any dive watch I've seen and that's really in keeping sort of with I think
uh the tradition of Elegance that black Pond is really trying to exude even in their more
complicated pieces even then they're more massive Fifty Fathoms offerings it still has the super
clean design super flat bezel and crystal which I think really makes it such an incredibly versatile
piece and definitely one that's very slept on I think the low production numbers definitely
makes this one that's going to fly under the radar and is not going to be the first thing
that comes to mind when you are thinking of dive watches now a lot of the complications of
the Fifty Fathoms will come in will definitely put them out of a lot of people's price ranges
however this super simple addition maybe less so the ceramic one but a beautiful really unique dive
watch that can be had for surprisingly low price considering the market you're in and definitely
in addition to your collection that you wouldn't initially think up so don't sleep on Blancpain
don't sleep on any of the brands that we've got here we're adding new arrivals every single day
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