{"product_id":"blancpain-fifty-fathoms-limited-edition-for-hodinkee-as07955","title":"Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Limited Edition For Hodinkee","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;\"\u003eWhile vintage versions of this exceptional tool watch are personal favorites of ours, certain contemporary iterations are similarly some of the best modern luxury divers available. This limited-edition Fifty Fathoms for HODINKEE, for example — was released in 2018 and is simple in design, yet unquestionably high-end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoused in a 38mm stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal, a unidirectional, rotating timing bezel with a black ceramic insert, and a signed crown, it features a luminous matte black dial with ‘Arabic’ quadrant indices with a matching handset, and an outer, printed white minute track.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePowering this beauty is the Blancpain Calibre 1153 automatic movement with a silicon hairspring and an impressive 100 hours of power reserve, while completing the package is a signed, black 'sailcloth' textured strap with a signed, stainless steel pin buckle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIf you’re on the hunt for an exceptional dive watch but aren’t keen on the Sub or the Seamaster 300, we highly recommend giving this \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003esuperlative timepiece a look.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blancpain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40042238246999,"sku":"40991169","price":19000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/AS07955_40991169_BLANCPAIN_FIFTYFATHOMSFORHODINKEE_5100-1130-8.jpg?v=1669221923","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/blancpain-fifty-fathoms-limited-edition-for-hodinkee-as07955","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}