Blancpain Fifty Fathoms: Everything You Need To Know 

Can you show a picture of the rose gold model on the pad with the tan enamel? I think the color of the enamel is fantastic. A very limited piece that I'm surprised we still have in stock!!!

The Blancpain FF is just incredible stunning… I got it few weeks ago and I can’t believe I waited so long before purchasing this master piece. All the Rolex went back to the safe and this one is my only one

We all want a non limited 40mm fifty fathoms

You guys are awesome! Keep these videos coming. I love learning the history of these brands that i've heard of but would've never researched.All new level of respect for Blancpain!

Thank you. Very educational.

Nice video. Thanks

Very informative and professional presentation

I own the Bathyscaphe In ceramic with the blue dial on sail cloth. I picked it over the 50 like you because it fit my thinner wrist better. What you failed to mention and I will is along with all that history comes a watch made to the highest horology standards. The movement is made to the highest standards of finish and has three main sping barrels giving it a 5 day power reserve and ridiculous accuracy for a mechanical watch. Mine is currently running +1 second a day. I'm adding this because the Bathyscaphe and the 50 are both premium watches and are expensive and just going on history might scare off a newbie buyer. In closing don't compare ether Blancpain divers here to Rolex there is no comparison the Blancpain Bathyscaphe and 50 are far superior watches and will set you apart from the sheeple. By the way I own two Rolex a GMT and a new Submariner.

That blue is one of the best I’ve seen in ages.just pops!

Great video George and Elizabeth, I love both of my Blancpain, best decision ever. Have the FF in Hawaii as we speak.👍👍👍👍

Great content, guys.

Very nice presentation. I myself have the Bathyscaphe ceramic in blue. I selected it for all the reasons you mentioned. It's so light and flexible and fits my smaller wrist. The most important thing I like about it is it's classy looking and doesn't have any of the baggage of a Submariner. Even though I succumbed to adding one to my modest collection too You can never have too many divers.

Really enjoyed the history behind Blancpain. Very nicely done, as always!

I just got mine a week ago, been wearing it everyday. Just magnificent!

I love my FF so glad I finally pulled the trigger and purchased it real history and amazing movement

It’s absolutely the first and best watch diver ever designed

Excellent Team work Elizabeth and George! As a watch passionate and a Blancpain fan, I know the story very well. This fact allows me to appreciate how you both tell it with such fluidity within each other. Thanks for sharing:)

Great video! I learned a lot. Not least, until now I assumed the rotating bezel was a Rolex invention.

Awesome 101 with the Ur dive watch!

40mm fifty fathoms please

Short and straight to the point - thank you. If I may ask, is the bezel also unidirectional on Bathyscaphe model? Thanks.

Wearing a Bathyscaphe black ceramic. Had it a year. Worn it every day. Work at steel mill.

The Blancpain is the best brand ever made… also your bathiscaphe on the wrist is the new version titane 23 grade it’s just gorgeous 😍

Very informative and well put together presentation. I genuinely feel that Blancpain is the watch brand with the most untapped potential. The two LE’s they released with Hodinkee show the direction they could go in (smaller pieces with callbacks to their storied history) but for some reason choose not to. Taking a look at the resale values of those limited edition prices (I have wanted to own the 3/6/9/12-dial Bathyscaphe since the moment I first laid eyes on it), Blancpain is leaving a massive amount of brand equity on the table. The current fifty-fathoms is a nice looking watch, but the tinted lume and oversized case eliminate the appeal for a very wide segment of potential buyers.

Where can I get one in Texas?

Great review. Actually, it’s the best Fifty Fathoms review. The two reviewers format worked very well. I’m treating myself to a watch for my 50th - one to pass on in due course to a grandson! If I’m honest, if it was possible to get one at list price, I would probably go for a Rolex Deepsea. Sea-Dweller, but I refuse to pay a penny more than list price. I have narrowed my search down to either a Fifty Fathoms or an Omega Ultradeep. On the one hand, I love the Old School history of the Fifty Fathoms. I really loved that Rolex couldn’t put a unidirectional bezel on the Submariner until the patent expired in 1980!! But the ridiculous fact that the Ultradeep is good to 6,000m is very persuasive! It’s a nice choice to have to make!

Love the watch, but really would need a 40mm or 42mm.

Blancpain makes one of my favorite watches, the Leman Aqua Lung Grande Date in gold. Preferably yellow gold. Shame they quit making it, by the time I can afford it the watch will be vintage.

i wanted my next watch to be a cartier santos but little by little this blancpain is catching my eye...

How about FF Barracuda, hope my spelling is correct 😮

Absolutely loving the Fifty Fathoms watches now. It would be real nice is Blancpain would stop making Limited Watches and make more available to the masses. ❤ Until then I have settled with the Tornek-Rayville TR-660 and the RDUNAE R6 Legendary Diver. Pick up your game, Blancpain (SWATCH). No point having people loving to own one of your watches and supplying 500 of them. 😮

Great watches - my preferred watch over the Sub. Shame about that nasty scratch on the back of the Bathy. Beautiful watch and they are in a class of their own.

The standard stainless steel Automatique Fifty Fathoms with the closed caseback and few remaining Faraday anti-magnetic cage, now everyone is moving to silicon parts, is the one I’d go for: in blue or black dial. The Titanium versions released in the last couple of years have an open caseback and no Fataday cage, but silicon parts. The Flyback chronographs in steel have the Faraday cage and are on another planet to the very limited and overpriced Daytona. I think retail tue standard non-Chrono is £12K wks the Flyback Chrono - with 300 m water resistance: and the CEO Marc Hayek said you can use the pushers under water. Is £17K. The ‘market price of a Daytona is about £35K. They also have calendar and moon phase integrated into some Automatique and Bathyscaphe Fifty Fathoms. The Villeret range has complicated tourbion watches. The

And it has a 5 day power reserve , thanks

What are your thoughts on the Blancpain x Swatch collection? 🤔

How do you know when the Fifty Fathoms is fully wound? Is there anything in place to prevent overwining the watch? It's absolutely beautiful and my favourite dive watch

They had the rose gold version on the table and never showed it up close! What a shame. It looks absolutely spectacular on the official website. I think it's the only rose gold watch I would ever buy.

Dear Elizabeth and George! I'm going to buy Blancpain Fifty Fathoms and what do you advise me, blue face or black?! Very interesting! Thank you for your hard work! Sincerely, Marat St. Petersburg, Russia.

Con la rubia presentando, me quedaría a ver cualquier review

Great Video!! It surprises me that the upper tier Swatch companies are still at a 3 year warranty. Rolex and AP are 5 years and JLC, Panerai and IWC are 8 years. Your thoughts??

if only they made this in a swatch

Was disappointed with my Bathyscaphe purchase a few years ago. Sold it 3 months after buying it brand new. It would gain 10 seconds in the first minute after winding, the bezel was horrendous to move and sounded cheap, nobody at Blancpain could tell me whether the sailcloth strap was water resistant and that's when I received a reply. The transparent case back, beautiful looking movement and 5 day power reserve sold me, but the rest of it is pretty damn ugly. The point of the lugs were razor sharp. The fifty fathoms is a better purchase, but who wears a 45mm watch anymore? I purchased the Sea Dweller 43 a few months ago and it's perfect in every way possible.

Rudimental is not a word. I think you mean rudimentary.

Big Apple! 212 baby! ✌️

Although risky, making an early ascent while diving is less risky than not breathing for 20 minutes.

So Blancpain invented the uni-directional bezel?

1) ditch the date or stay grand date, don't do a 4/30 date window 2) make them in WILD colors: lime green, neon orange, florescent yellow, hot pink 3) change nothing else!

Nice match but honestly the Blancpain is 50 fathoms ahead of rolex . Better movement, the bracelet x71 is just gorgeous (cost 3 time more than Rolex)

Superb watches at BIG prices. The major problem for all the prestige makers, is that the Rolex proposition just profoundly superior, especially the 2023 versions with updated calibers. Plan B: buy a Blancpain and and soak up the news that it lost 40% of its value as you walked out of the boutique. And Rolex seem to understand that basic diver watches should be 40mm to allow their use as a daily beater. Gedit?

What's the point of wearing only one glove?

Way to go dude: nonstop interrupting your female colleague! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The only thing I need to know is its way too big.

No such thing as a waterproof watch. WR yes.

Modern versions look bad with the date, no date is better