WOW Editor?s Watch Pick: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
Despite its more contemporary and muscular look, the Fifty Fathoms watch is the direct descendant of the original Fifty Fathoms from 1953.
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Those who read the first instalment of this series last year will notice that I did not purchase any of the other pieces on my list. Of course, the fact that reference 5443 is a manual-winding rectangular watch struck the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, Rado True Square and Nomos Glashütte Tetra off my list. This does not mean that there are no other targets in my sights, although I confess to being circumspect about what I discuss publicly. To continue something of a tradition at WOW Singapore though, I will once more advocate for a piece by a brand that I have long championed ? this time, it is Blancpain. What might surprise some of you is that it is a traditional Fifty Fathoms, not a Bathyscaphe variant.
Like a number of brands, Swiss and otherwise, Blancpain has a lot of depth in the dive watch range, including two very different base models in the Fifty Fathoms, and the Bathyscaphe (the full name is Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, but I will just use Bathyscaphe in this story to avoid confusion). Despite its more contemporary and muscular look, the Fifty Fathoms watch is the direct descendant of the original Fifty Fathoms from 1953. The Bathyscaphe is not a newcomer either, debuting at the end of the 1950s and targeting the recreational diver, whic...
The post WOW Editor’s Watch Pick: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms appeared first on LUXUO.
Those who read the first instalment of this series last year will notice that I did not purchase any of the other pieces on my list. Of course, the fact that reference 5443 is a manual-winding rectangular watch struck the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, Rado True Square and Nomos Glashütte Tetra off my list. This does not mean that there are no other targets in my sights, although I confess to being circumspect about what I discuss publicly. To continue something of a tradition at WOW Singapore though, I will once more advocate for a piece by a brand that I have long championed ? this time, it is Blancpain. What might surprise some of you is that it is a traditional Fifty Fathoms, not a Bathyscaphe variant.
Like a number of brands, Swiss and otherwise, Blancpain has a lot of depth in the dive watch range, including two very different base models in the Fifty Fathoms, and the Bathyscaphe (the full name is Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, but I will just use Bathyscaphe in this story to avoid confusion). Despite its more contemporary and muscular look, the Fifty Fathoms watch is the direct descendant of the original Fifty Fathoms from 1953. The Bathyscaphe is not a newcomer either, debuting at the end of the 1950s and targeting the recreational diver, whic...
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