When it comes to iconic dive watches, I am sure we all have many of the same ones pop to mind, most often coming from Rolex and, due to their more recent resurgence, Panerai. Back in the 1950s, though, there was another brand that produced what I feel is an iconic diver as well – the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. That is the watch we will be going through in today’s edition of Historical Horology.
If you didn’t give the pictures a closer look, you might simply think that we’ve got another Seiko 5 Series…
Vintage dive watches always seem to be a popular category, and we’ve seen quite a few hit the market in the last year or so. Many of these draw inspiration from the famous Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (is there something to link to for this) which first appeared in 1953. This is the precise model the latest watch from Prometheus draws from.
There can be a lot of posturing (and marketing speak) when it comes to talking about how rough and tough…
In this episode of Behind the Dial we talk about the history of dive watches, the provenance of the Blancpain…
Swatch had a huge hit with the not-limited-edition but definitely hard-to-get MoonSwatch. Now they’re back with the Swatch x Blancpain, a Blancpain collaboration.
While we’ve not had them on our pages here for a bit, we’ve not stopped keeping an eye on what…
Well, we just started this new “For Your Consideration” series last week (at least, officially), and here we are again…
Over the last 10+ years, I’ve been fortunate to experience quite a number of different watch brands, and get to…
Over the last year or so, we’ve written a number of articles on the Shinola Duck (here and here), it…
