Blancpain — dive watches

Fifty Fathoms

The Fifty Fathoms family develops Blancpain's foundational modern dive-watch language through highly legible luminous displays, rotating timing bezels, robust water resistance, and manufacture movements.

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Understanding this lineage

The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms lineage currently brings together 37 cataloged references spanning 1953–2026. 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 Fifty Fathoms Fifty-Fathoms-1965, Fifty Fathoms Automatique 5015 12B40 O52A, Fifty Fathoms Automatique 5010 1130 71S, Fifty Fathoms Automatique 5007 1130 71S, Fifty Fathoms Chronographe Flyback 5085F 1130 71S, and Fifty Fathoms 5015-1130-52B. 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 Fifty Fathoms 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.