Passions Watch Exchange

About This Watch

Pre-owned. Comes with orig. boxes, manual & dated paper.

One owner's watch from new & each watch is individually numbered. This is a rare collector's item & a handsome diver's watch. This is the equivalent of Rolex's Submariner with an Explorer dial but at the fraction of the price and Blancpain certainly stands high in the world of luxury watch makers. Today, a vintage Fifty Fathoms commands over S$70K.

Blancpain's Fifty Fathoms, first introduced in 1953, has become one of the most legendary diving watches ever made, especially with its rich military history and timeless design. But at the turn of the century, the brand decided to venture into the avante-garde and use state of the art technologies and materials to push the fifty Fathoms and Blancpain into the future as the Concept 2000 debuted at Basel 1999. Three models were introduced. This 300m diver's watch, a GMT 24hrs and Air-command chronograph.

On the mechanical side, this watch is powered by the twin-barrel automatic caliber 1151 with a lengthy 100 hour power reserve. The 40.5mm stainless case also utilized rubber on the bezel and crown for more comfortable handling of the watch. The bracelet was completely new, made in a blend of steel and fiberglass-reinforced rubber that the brand called "enduring yet utterly stylish". 

This is the best value Fifty-Fathoms that you can find for under S$10K now and it is one of the most important model that revived the series and saved the brand to what we have today.