Fifty Fathoms SPORT by Blancpain

I love this Blancpain sports watch and I love the name “Fifty Fathoms“; it sounds like a super fly pitch black car that talks and transforms and only comes out at night. Imagination aside, the watch is pretty awesome and the basics include a unidirectional bezel, antimagnetic case, self-winding movement, and a black dial.
The solid blackness of the watch makes it undeniably alluring and mysterious as only a few hundred of them leave Blancpain’s workshop each year. There are lots of things I love about this particular Fifty Fathoms watch. The first is its ultra slim status. It comes in at 15.50 mm case thickness, 45 mm in diameter, 23 mm between horns, 5.65 mm calibre thickness, 30.60 calibre diameter, and an ultra slim self winding movement.
Even though the Fifty Fathoms SPORT watch by Blancpain has a date, it doesn’t have a double window date indication, which keeps in with the simple and sleek design. With all this mystery; there must be an amazing story a behind the watch, right? Yes!
The Fifty Fathoms collection came to design when the French Ministry of defense approached Blancpain about creating an elite watch for combat divers that could withstand underwater missions. From then the collection earned credibility among other country special forces units including French Navy GERS and movies like World of Silence.