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by Rob CorderJune 12, 2025June 12, 2025

Blancpain welcomes women into its Fifty Fathoms dive watch world

Blancpain has made its boldest statement to date in this, its 290th anniversary year, with two Fifty Fathoms Automatique timepieces designed specifically for women: one in a pale pink colourway, the other with a grey mother of pearl dial. Both ...

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by Rob CorderJune 6, 2025June 6, 2025

Swatch adds MIL-SPEC-style moisture detector to new camo Blancpain x Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms

Swatch has finally found a color combination for its Blancpain Fifty Fathoms collaboration watch that the fickle Instagram world appears to appreciate. The Blancpain x Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms has not caught fire with anything like the ferocity of the ...

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Business

by Rob CorderJune 6, 2025June 6, 2025

Blancpain joins Bucherer and Breitling on New York’s billionaire’s row

Blancpain has relocated from its home on New York’s 5th Avenue to 40 East 57th Street, home to Vacheron Constantin, Breitling, Bucherer’s Time Machine, Jacob & Co. and The 1916 Company’s Manhattan collectors’ lounge. The single-floor boutique, occupying just under ...

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NEW PRODUCTS

by Staff WriterDecember 13, 2024December 13, 2024

The love bug: Blancpain reveals Ladybird Valentine watch

This may be the time that most people are thinking about Christmas, but Blancpain is already looking ahead to Valentine’s Day. In a tradition that has gone on for quarter of a century, the brand has unveiled its latest Valentine’s ...

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DAILY NEWS

by Staff WriterNovember 13, 2024November 13, 2024

Blancpain drops new Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphes

Blancpain has added to the storied Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe diving line with three new watches. There are two new time-only versions, along with a flyback chronograph. Each has a ceramic case measuring 43.6mm and a satin-brushed ceramic bezel. The watches ...

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NEW PRODUCTS

by Rob CorderJuly 29, 2024July 29, 2024

Blancpain forges an all-gold version of its Bathyscape moonphase watch

Blancpain has unveiled a top-of-the-line addition to its Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantième Complet Phases de Lune collection in a full red gold-on-gold case and integrated bracelet. The brand’s Chronographe Flyback has been given the same all-gold treatment. The moonphase model ...

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Business

by Rob CorderJuly 15, 2024July 15, 2024

Swatch Group sales slump by 11%

Swatch Group turnover dropped by 10.7% to CHF 3.4 billion in the first six months of 2024 as economic and political challenges in China, Hong Kong and Macau weighed on sales. The fully verticalised group also suffered on the home ...

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NEWS

by Rob CorderApril 26, 2024April 29, 2024

Swatch Group brands sign up to Geneva watch show

Swatch Group’s chief executive, Nick Hayek Jr., may have rebuffed a direct invitation from Rolex’s CEO Jean-Frédéric Dufour to participate in Watches and Wonders, but an assertion that his brands do not see the need for global exhibitions is being ...

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FEATURES

by Rob CorderJanuary 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Top 18 watches for Chinese Year of the Dragon

In Chinese astrology, those born under the sign of the Dragon are celebrated for their energy, strength, confidence, intelligence, and generosity. Dragons are known to initiate grand endeavours and keep them running, promising luck, prosperity, and economic success. And, as ...

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by Rob CorderJanuary 10, 2024January 10, 2024

Swatch goes back to black for sixth Blancpain Fifty Fathoms tribute

Omega’s collaboration with Swatch to create the MoonSwatch, arguably the most significant launch of any Swiss watchmaker in 2022, was always going to be tough to top. But Swatch Group stablemate Blancpain gave it a go last year with a ...

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by Rob CorderOctober 9, 2023October 9, 2023

Blancpain prices bounce after getting the MoonSwatch treatment

Price of a classic Blancpain Fifty Fathoms watch has leapt by 15% on the secondary market since the brand collaborated with Swatch to launch the Blancpain X Swatch Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms. ...

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by Rob CorderSeptember 7, 2023September 7, 2023

Blancpain X Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms Review

Perhaps the most interesting detail of the MoonSwatch-inspired Blancpain X Swatch Bioceramic Scuba Fifty Fathoms watches' launch is the use of a Sistem51 mechanical movement produced entirely by machines without the involvement of a watchmaker hunched over a bench in ...

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by Rob CorderSeptember 4, 2023September 4, 2023

Swatch tests whether MoonSwatch mania can be rekindled for bioceramic Blancpain

A post on Swatch's Instagram overnight shows the five great oceans of the world with Swatch x Blancpain and the date of September 9. ...

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NEWS

by Staff WriterAugust 7, 2023August 8, 2023

Blancpain shows its true colours with the new rainbow Ladybird

Blancpain's signature ladies collection, the Ladybird, embraces the trend for rainbow dials ...

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by Rob CorderJuly 4, 2023July 4, 2023

Introducing the most eye-popping pieces from this year’s Only Watch charity auction

If only the watch industry were always as exciting and innovative as it is for the bi-annual Only Watch auction. ...

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by Rob CorderFebruary 17, 2023February 17, 2023

Blancpain rebreaths life into Fifty Fathoms professional dive watch family

Modern rebreather dive equipment has made 45-minute countdown bezels obsolete. Enter the three hour timer. ...

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LEAD STORY

by Rob CorderJanuary 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Blancpain dives into Fifty Fathoms 70th anniversary year with modern 42mm model

Blancpain revived the Fifty Fathoms on its 50th anniversary in 2003 with a modernised 50-piece limited edition, and is starting this 70th anniversary year with a new 42mm version of the watch for a mere 70 customers. ...

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DAILY NEWS

by Alex DouglasJune 30, 2021June 30, 2021

Blancpain launches the Female Fifty Fathoms Award with Ocean Photography team-up

Blancpain has joined the annual Ocean Photography Awards competition, becoming its Main Partner. ...

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NEW PRODUCTS

by Rob CorderJanuary 20, 2021

UPDATED: 13 Chinese New Year watches to mark the Year of the Ox

Chinese New Year is just weeks away, on February 12, and will be celebrated as the Year of the Ox for the first time since 2009. Watchmakers are already unveiling special editions designed to appeal to the Chinese shoppers, although ...

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by Rob CorderJanuary 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Blancpain keeps love alive with limited edition Villeret watch for Valentine’s Day

Blancpain has kicked off 2021 with its tradition of producing a limited ladies watch for Valentine’s Day. It is the 20th year in a row that the Swatch Group brand has made a Valentine’s Day watch, in this case a ...

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