As Blancpain celebrates the 65th anniversary of its iconic Fifty Fathoms collection, CEO Marc Hayek tells us the secret behind the enduring appeal of this timeless diver’s watch.
The story of Fifty Fathoms is legendary: in the early 1950s, Blancpain CEO Jean-Jacques Fiechter, a diver himself, undertook the bold mission to create a timepiece that would accompany the divers of the French Combat Diving School to the depths of the sea. Fifty Fathoms would become the world’s first diving watch in 1953 – one year before Rolex’s Submariner was launched. Blancpain CEO Marc Hayek tells us about the watch’s beginnings and its links to the military.
What are the most outstanding features of Fifty Fathoms and how has it evolved?
This story is from the January 2019 edition of Robb Report Singapore.
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