After making a giant splash final 12 months with a three-act anniversary for the Fifty Fathoms, Blancpain introduces two new 42mm Fifty Fathoms Automatique fashions, which at the moment are a part of the common assortment. We wrote extensively concerning the Fifty Fathoms, arguably the world’s first correct diver’s watch, final 12 months and this new iteration principally expands on final 12 months’s 42mm metal Fifty Fathoms seventieth Anniversary Act 1 restricted version. The brand new fashions differ most importantly within the selection of supplies: pink gold and grade 23 titanium. Metal is unlikely to enter the image any time quickly, to honour the Act 1 watch’s particular place.
Returning for a second to the dive watch heritage, the Fifty Fathoms stays the category chief for this fashion of watch with a high-quality watchmaking motion. In different phrases, the brand new Fifty Fathoms 42 is knowledgeable beater with a dependable engine that additionally appears to be like good, which any observer can test through the exhibition caseback. We will return to calibre 1315 later however we should tackle key factors concerning the variations between the 2 variations of this mannequin, which occur to lean into the 2 very other ways of contemplating the Fifty Fathoms.
The pink gold model gives magnificence and class, whereas the grade 23 titanium model tasks sports activities indestructibility. Grade 23 titanium, the purest type of titanium, is light-weight, extremely immune to scratches and corrosion, and has anti-allergenic properties. Each the titanium and pink gold circumstances go effectively with the sapphire-topped bezel.
The brand new Fifty Fathoms 42 Automatique watches can be found with both a blue or black dial (for each case supplies). The pink gold and titanium variations provide a large selection of straps in matching colors, together with sail-canvas, NATO, and Tropic textured rubber impressed by the 1953 mannequin. Solely the titanium model gives an identical bracelet.
As talked about earlier, Calibre 1315 is a giant a part of what makes the Fifty Fathoms so fascinating, so far as dive watches are involved. Blancpain itself states that the motion is completed in response to haute horlogerie requirements however this doesn’t imply one ought to count on to see hand-finishing in each bevelled edge. Certainly, Calibre 1315 is a superb instance of how distinctive machine ending will be, if utilized expertly.
Motion: Computerized calibre 1315 with date; 120-hour energy reserve
Case: 42.3mm in pink gold or titanium; water resistant to 300m
Strap: Rubber
Value: From SGD 26,400 (titanium)
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