Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
One of the first modern diving watches, made for the French navy's combat divers.
Blancpain's head, Jean-Jacques Fiechter, was a diver himself and developed the watch with the French navy's combat divers. The name means fifty fathoms, about 91 metres. Jacques Cousteau's divers wore it in the film The Silent World.
Materials: Stainless steel; self-winding movement
Manufacture: Made in Villeret; the bezel can be locked so that it is not turned by mistake.
The black rotating bezel with a minute scale.
The large luminous markers.