Back in June, Blancpain launched the first-ever all-ceramic version of a Fifty Fathoms diver. The ultramodern, ultratough take on the original dive watch took the ceramic Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe — ...

High-tech ceramic is an ideal material for any sports watch, and particularly diving. It is impervious to encounters with coral reefs, salt water, frigid temperatures. Ceramic is also easy to wear: ...

Synonymous with aquatic adventures, the iconic Fifty Fathoms traces its origins back to 1953 when Blancpain unveiled the world's first modern diver's watch, a groundbreaking instrument designed to ...

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was one of two dive watches to go to market in 1953 at the Baselworld trade fair (Rolex would officially release the Submariner in 1954). By 1956, when recreational diving ...