Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms launched the modern dive watch format in 1953. Having beaten the rival Rolex Submariner to market by mere months, the Fifty Fathoms hoisted a flag that flies to this day: "first." This 43mm stainless steel Blacnpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe continues to legacy of history's first true dive watch with a sleek and rugged design that returns Blancpain into the heat of battle against a familiar foe: the Rolex Submariner. If you're looking for a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms to wear into hell and back, the Bathyscaphe is your watch. A true throwback to the model's roots as a military contract, the Bathyscaphe looks butch enough to brush aside the Rolex "Sub" and go Panerai-hunting. As of 2007, Blancpain's traditional Fifty Fathoms has washed its hands of blue-collar "tool watch" market and moved into the realm of high horology. Priced and positioned closer to a steel Rolex Daytona than a Rolex Submariner, the conventional 45mm stainless steel Fifty Fathoms is more of a gentleman's rival to the posh Rolex Yacht-Master than the hardy Submariner. Enter the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe... Released in 2013 as a return-to-roots special, the Blancpain Bathyscaphe revives a vintage model name accorded to the most purposeful utility timepieces of Blancpain's 1960s dive watch heyday. The new Bathyscape trades the fastidious polish and bulbous form of the 45mm FF for a sleek brushed finish with