Blancpain Fifty Fathoms - Not Just an Archetypal Modern Diver's Watch, but an Icon of Style and ...

Dialing back the clock, the birth of the Fifty Fathoms was firstly a result of the work started by Jean-Jacques Fiechter, a passionate diver who was Blancpain's CEO for three decades, from 1950 to 1980 In 1953, Blancpain was able to deliver to the French military divers a watch for testing that fully met their criteria All Fifty Fathoms models now feature the main signature elements that forged the reputation of their legendary ancestor and established it as the archetypal diver's watch.

These properties come together to ensure the almost perfect geometry of the balance-spring, thereby improving the isochronism of the movement and hence the precision of the watch The balance is fitted with a silicon hairspring, a material insensitive to magnetic fields, meaning the watch is able to now forgo with an inner soft iron case, which was the solution used in the past The new Fifty Fathoms Ocean Commitment III is offered in a 40 mm diameter satin-brushed steel case, an exclusive diameter reserved for limited-edition Fifty Fathoms watches.

Blancpain will contribute 1,000 euros with the sale of each watch. . Source