A Manufacture Calibre In Need of a Better Home At Baselworld 2009, Blancpain introduced its new L-evolution series, including the L-evolution Moon Phase, shown below in steel and red gold.?Ǭ Now although I am not the biggest fan of this watch because I think the dial is way too busy and cluttered (you can partially […]
1500 watch fans were able to make a selection out of 40 diving watches in the price categories up to 1000 Euro, 1001 – 2500 Euro, 2501 – 5000 Euro and over 5000 Euro. Furthermore, there was an extra category for quartz watches only. Our colleagues from the German WatchTime executed a survey among their […]
The story is well-known, the “Fifty Fathoms” watch was designed for the French navy. Originally, French officers Bob Maloubier and Claude Riffaud started to work together on requirements in 1952 for a watch to be used during under-water missions. Diving watches at the time were a piece of equipment that men depend their lives on. After […]
During Baselworld last year, Blancpain presented the modernised version, or ‘reinterpreted’ according to Blancpain, of their well known Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe. Originally created in the late 1950s as a dive watch that also could be used for daily wear. This year Blancpain added a new member to the family in the shape of a chronograph. […]
BOC II Blancpain introduces the new Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Flyback Chronograph Blancpain watch warranty Replica Ocean Commitment II (BOC II). This might be one of the longest names for a watch we’ve come across so far. The Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe was presented a couple of years ago, as the new re-interpretation of the late 1950s […]
Blancpain invited us for an action packed weekend at the Total 24 hours of Spa. One of five rounds in the Blancpain Endurance Series. The first three were at Monza, Silverstone and Paul Ricard earlier this year. Each for the duration of 3 hours. Spa is the 4th and longest race lasting 24 hours. On september 11 the final 1000km race […]
So it’s time for something completely different now! It’s weekend for us and probably most of our readers. Today we present you an easy to digest article. Going through our vast photo archive, we dug up the watch macro photo A to Z. Some unpublished material or re-editited images. Taking a few detours to fill in […]
This week has been an interesting one on eBay. Yesterday, we covered the sale of an interesting “panda” Heuer Autavia and today we’ll talk about the sale of an equally rare Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. Before we do that, though, I’ll use this article to give an overall opinion on something: eBay. I have contacts that […]
This year, BaselWorld 2009 is being held from March 26th till April 2nd. Together with Frank from Monochrome.nl, I’ll be visiting Basel from March 26th till March 29th. We booked our flights, hotels and together with Kyle from Perpetuelle.com we are planning our meetings already. The pre-Basel news is already flooding the various watch portals. […]
A photo report of Blancpain’s Night at the Museum event in London Blancpain has donated to different ocean preserving projects for years and years already. Since 2014 however, Blancpain officially committed themselves to protect the world’s oceans. This resulted in the ‘Blancpain Ocean Commitment‘. Increasing public awareness Blancpain intends to increase public awareness through funding […]
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