Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bakelite Bezel longines Organically Grown

Organically Grown

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The dial is a gilt dial in fantastic condition – we don’t think we’ve ever seen a nicer one I the last few years

with hour plots that are a nice match with the sword hands

during the so-called Quartz Crisis of the early 1970s

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bakelite Bezel longines Organically GrownAn early Blancpain diverThis is a very rare and very early Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. Credited as the first divers watch with uni directional bezel, the Fifty Fathoms was designed by the then CEO of Jean Jacques Fiecht who was an avid diver, in the early 1950s. Available tot he public in 1953 ( same year as the first Rolex submariner), and used by many Armed forces (French, German, Israeli, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and most famously,