Blancpain — dive watches

Bathyscaphe

The Bathyscaphe family is the slimmer, instrument-led branch of Fifty Fathoms, combining unidirectional dive bezels and 300-meter cases with everyday proportions and haute-horlogerie complications.

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Understanding this lineage

The Blancpain Bathyscaphe lineage currently brings together 29 cataloged references spanning 1956–2024. It is organized around exact reference identities so changes in case size, materials, dial execution, movement, and production status remain visible instead of being flattened into one broad model name.

Records surfaced on this page include Bathyscaphe 5000 1153 H52A, Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 5008-11B30-NABA, Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 5000-0130-NAB, Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 5100-11130-NAOA, Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 5200-0130-NABA, and Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 5054-1110-B52A. The list favors entries with usable imagery before continuing through the family catalog, while the sitemap preserves a discovery path to every published reference page.

Use the reference links to move from the family overview into individual dossiers. Depending on the available source material, those pages can document reference codes, production years, nicknames, variants, images, and current or discontinued status. The interactive Atlas view adds visual browsing, while this crawlable page keeps the underlying lineage accessible to search engines and readers using ordinary web navigation.

References

Editorial context

Stories connected to the Bathyscaphe lineage

Read the editorial histories and collector stories that connect this family to its exact references.

Blancpain — 12 min readBlancpain Fifty Fathoms: The Dive Watch Born Under PressureA connected history of the Fifty Fathoms, from Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Bob Maloubier, Claude Riffaud, and the French combat swimmers to Tornek-Rayville, No Rad, Bathyscaphe, the 2003 revival, modern Automatique references, heritage tributes, and the Tech Gombessa.