{"product_id":"blancpain-fifty-fathoms-bathyscaphe-day-date-70s-as06015","title":"Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date '70s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the history of dive watches, a few names tend to stand out as pioneers and innovators: Rolex. DOXA. Blancpain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe latter changed the world with its Fifty Fathoms, a timepiece that many consider — and rightfully so — to be the world's first true diver's watch. However, the Fifty Fathoms wasn't the only diver that the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emaison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e from La Brassus produced. There was also a scaled-down version called the Bathyscaphe, named after the manned submersible of the Swiss explorer-diver Auguste Piccard. More recently, Blancpain has revived the Bathyscaphe nomenclature, offering an entire line of sophisticated divers that pay homage to their vintage counterparts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe particular Bathyscaphe that we have here is a Day Date 70s edition dating to circa 2019. Housed in a 43mm stainless steel case, it features a sapphire crystal, a signed crown, a unidirectional, rotating dive timing bezel, a sunburst, grey Super-LumiNova dial with matching fat syringe handset, and a brown leather strap with a Blancpain-signed pin buckle. It’s powered by the automatic Blancpain Calibre 1315DD with a whopping 120 hours of power reserve and a silicon balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn near-mint condition and shipping with much of its ephemera, this limited edition of 500 pieces is one of the coolest contemporary divers we’ve seen from a brand that was present at the beginning of dive watch mania.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGrab it while you can!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blancpain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39666914230359,"sku":"40990459","price":8850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/AS06015_40990459_BLANCPAIN_FIFTYFATHOMSBATHYSCAPHEDAYDATEDESERTEDITION_5052114663A-7.jpg?v=1730485553","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/blancpain-fifty-fathoms-bathyscaphe-day-date-70s-as06015","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}