Watches In The Wild Paris, Episode 1: Fashion And Watches Buying, Selling, & Collecting A Total Beginner's Guide To Collecting The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms The first modern dive watch had always confounded me, but it doesn't have to confound you too. Anthony Traina January 13, 2023 Fathoms collection Highlights Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Chronographe Flyback 5200 0153 B52A View the full line Fifty Fathoms Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Act 2: Tech Gombessa 5019 12B30 64A View the full line Fifty Fathoms Fifty Fathoms Automatique 5015 12B40 NAOA View the full line View the full collection The spirit to preserve
Sterile Homage of a LIP Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (Private Collection)
Jan 16, 2015,01:20 AM The story of the Fifty Fathoms is all over the place now, but the connection with Lip is still a mystery for some people. When you discuss with new collectors, you still hear the question "what was the connection between Blancpain and Lip ?", or even "what is Lip ?" !!! The original Fifty Fathoms carried the trademark "LIP Blancpain", LIP was a watch retailer in Paris and manufacturer in Besançon. Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Blancpain's CEO from 1950 until 1980, a diver himself, developed the Fifty Fathoms model. Blancpain Fifty Fathoms End of Year Special 2023 New Release Fifty Fathoms Limited Edition of 555 pieces $ 35,505 + $80 for shipping US Promoted Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe NEW Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Automatic 18KT Red Gold 5000-36S40-O52A $ 19,375 + $49 for shipping US Popular Blancpain Fifty Fathoms The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was adopted not only by the French navy divers who'd had a hand in its creation but by other military units across the world as well, including special forces teams from Spain, Germany, Norway, Israel, and even the U.S.A.'s Navy SEALs.
BLANCPAIN / LIP Fifty Fathoms "Rotomatic Incabloc", n° 17076
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Signed by LIP for sale via analog/shift, New York City-based purveyor of fine vintage and superlative contemporary watches online at analogshift.com. It was designed by Captain Robert Maloubier and Lieutenant Claude Riffaud, commanders of the French Combat Diving School, who shopped it around to watch manufactures (like Lip), with Blancpain CEO Jean-Jacques Fiechter taking the bait (the puns keep on coming). The Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms MIL-SPEC seen from the side. SKU AS03466 Why We Love it - Why We Love It The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is without question one of the most iconic dive watches, and arguably the first. One of the things we love most at Analog/Shift is distinctive design, and the Fifty-Fathoms certainly has that in spades. In 2023, Blancpain is marking the 70th anniversary of the Fifty Fathoms. This memorable year for the Manufacture promises to be filled with celebrations. Timepieces and exclusive experiences will punctuate the next 12 months, orchestrated around the key number 70, as well as 20 and 10: 70 for the 70th anniversary of the Fifty Fathoms; 20 for.
Sold Price BLANCPAIN / LIP Fifty Fathoms "Rotomatic Incabloc", n° 17563 July 4, 0119 230 PM CEST
Because Lip at the time made no sports watches, Blancpain watches were distributed as "Lip Blancpain" in the Lip network (or, more precisely, Fédération Nationale HBJO — Horlogers, Bijoutiers, Joailliers, Orfèvres — network, Lip being a well-established brand in France with HBJO). The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak sparked the trend, but the Fifty-Fathoms in its 70s get-up didn't endure the rise of electronic quartz watches in the 1980s. A few acquisitions of Blancpain went by before new management released the Fifty Fathoms again in 2007, this time using the original designs as inspiration. Watch fans the world over swooned.
In '54, Lip and Blancpain signed an agreement to allow Lip to be the sole distributor of the Fifty Fathoms through its 2000-some shops. Those that sold in France had dials like you see here, a double signature with a whole lot of history wrapped up in it. The diver that signature sits in set the mould for nearly all which would come after. The original Fifty Fathoms carried the trademark "LIP Blancpain", LIP was a watch retailer in Paris and manufacturer in Besançon. Jean-Jacques Fiechter, Blancpain's CEO from 1950 until 1980, a diver himself, developed the Fifty Fathoms model.
Sold Price BLANCPAIN / LIP Fifty Fathoms "Rotomatic Incabloc", n° 17563 July 4, 0119 230 PM CEST
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms 'LIP' - Amsterdam Vintage Watches Without a doubt one of the most well-known diving watches out there. A fathom is a unit of length used to measure the depth in water. Fifty fathoms is 91.44 meters deep. The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was the first-to-market modern dive watch, introduced in 1953 for French Navy combat swimmers,. The watches were distributed by not only Blancpain, but French watch brand LIP (with their own double-signed dials), Spirotechnique (under the Aqua Lung brand), and the Tornek-Rayville name for US Navy issue..
