On: The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech Date, a Truly Purposeful Three

49 seconds ago | ic_dehaze_black_24px Created with Sketch. By Denis Peshkov | ic_query_builder_black_24px Created with Sketch. 6 min read | Dive watches are, by nature, rather conservative instruments. Since the 1950s, the basics have barely changed : a robust water-resistant case, luminous hands and markers, and a rotating bezel, often undirectional, graduated over 60 minutes. Blancpain played a big part in setting up these design codes with the Fifty Fathoms during the 1950s. Seventy years later, however, the brand decided that modern diving had evolved enough to require a different kind of mechanical instrument.