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Watches In The Wild Paris, Episode 1: Fashion And Watches Buying, Selling, & Collecting A Total Beginner's Guide To Collecting The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms The first modern dive watch had always confounded me, but it doesn't have to confound you too. Anthony Traina January 13, 2023

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In 2023, Blancpain is marking the 70th anniversary of the Fifty Fathoms. This memorable year for the Manufacture promises to be filled with celebrations. Timepieces and exclusive experiences will punctuate the next 12 months, orchestrated around the key number 70, as well as 20 and 10: 70 for the 70th anniversary of the Fifty Fathoms; 20 for.

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The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is a diving watch in its truest form, and arguably also the first specifically made for the task. Today we'll go a bit deeper (pun intended) into how the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms came to be, and how it has evolved over more than half a century. 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms

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It was designed by Captain Robert Maloubier and Lieutenant Claude Riffaud, commanders of the French Combat Diving School, who shopped it around to watch manufactures (like Lip), with Blancpain CEO Jean-Jacques Fiechter taking the bait (the puns keep on coming). The Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms MIL-SPEC seen from the side.

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The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was the first-to-market modern dive watch, introduced in 1953 for French Navy combat swimmers,. The watches were distributed by not only Blancpain, but French watch brand LIP (with their own double-signed dials), Spirotechnique (under the Aqua Lung brand), and the Tornek-Rayville name for US Navy issue..

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In '54, Lip and Blancpain signed an agreement to allow Lip to be the sole distributor of the Fifty Fathoms through its 2000-some shops. Those that sold in France had dials like you see here, a double signature with a whole lot of history wrapped up in it. The diver that signature sits in set the mould for nearly all which would come after.

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The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was adopted not only by the French navy divers who'd had a hand in its creation but by other military units across the world as well, including special forces teams from Spain, Germany, Norway, Israel, and even the U.S.A.'s Navy SEALs.

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The original Fifty Fathoms carried the trademark "LIP Blancpain", LIP was a watch retailer in Paris and manufacturer in Besançon. Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Blancpain's CEO from 1950 until 1980, a diver himself, developed the Fifty Fathoms model.

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The Blancpain × Swatch Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms Ocean of Storms will go on sale on January 11th worldwide. It will be sold at the same selected boutiques that already carry the original Blancpain × Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms versions. The price will also be the same as the others at €390 / £340 / US$400.

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The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak sparked the trend, but the Fifty-Fathoms in its 70s get-up didn't endure the rise of electronic quartz watches in the 1980s. A few acquisitions of Blancpain went by before new management released the Fifty Fathoms again in 2007, this time using the original designs as inspiration. Watch fans the world over swooned.

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LIP Blancpain watches were not the first dive watches on the market when they were introduced in 1953. They were, however, the most modern dive wristwatches at that time. The reliability and compactness of Fifty Fathoms models, which were originally designed for military use, became legendary. The reputation earned them the right to be used…

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Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 'LIP' - Amsterdam Vintage Watches Without a doubt one of the most well-known diving watches out there. A fathom is a unit of length used to measure the depth in water. Fifty fathoms is 91.44 meters deep.

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Because Lip at the time made no sports watches, Blancpain watches were distributed as "Lip Blancpain" in the Lip network (or, more precisely, Fédération Nationale HBJO — Horlogers, Bijoutiers, Joailliers, Orfèvres — network, Lip being a well-established brand in France with HBJO).