Photography notes
- Ceramic bezel detail
- Meteor grey dial
- Sail-canvas strap
Dive · Fifty Fathoms
Blancpain
Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe
The first modern dive watch, in a wearable case.
Ref. 5000-0130-B52A · Released 2013 · Switzerland
The Fifty Fathoms preceded the Submariner to market and introduced the safety features that define dive watches: a bezel that can only lose time, never gain it, and a doubly sealed crown.
The Bathyscaphe revives the smaller 1956 variant in 43 mm with a ceramic bezel, a silicon balance spring and a five-day movement.
- Model
- Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe
- Brand
- Blancpain
- Collection
- Fifty Fathoms
- Reference
- 5000-0130-B52A
- Release year
- 2013
- Country of origin
- Switzerland
Designer
Jean-Jacques Fiechter
As Blancpain's CEO and a diver, Fiechter specified the unidirectional bezel, double-sealed crown and moisture indicator in 1953.
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