BLANCPAIN – Fifty Fathoms BATHYSCAPHE Quantième Annuel

BLANCPAIN – Fifty Fathoms BATHYSCAPHE Quantième Annuel Meteor Grey Dial Steel 43mm

Baselworld 2018

The Bathyscaphe, a pillar of the Fifty Fathoms collection, pairs for the first time sport with a useful complication in a new annual calendar model. All of the diving watch DNA is fully preserved in this Baselworld debut with clear readability, robust movement and a unidirectional rotating bezel.

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Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms heritage dates from 1953, when it debuted as the world’s first modern diving watch fulfilling the needs of professional divers in underwater conditions. Its set of features and signature design have defined the dive watch genre for the entire industry ever since.

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The Bathyscaphe first joined the Fifty Fathoms collection in 1956 as a civilian version whose size would be adapted to daily wear. That formula continues today with Blancpain’s modern Bathyscaphe models offering a robust movement, and a unidirectional rotating bezel with a ceramic insert.

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This year’s Bathyscaphe Quantième Annuel brings new functionality to the sport collection, thus enhancing its use as a daily wear timepiece. This is the first time that a Bathyscaphe model features indications for the day of the week, date, and month shown in windows and arranged in the logical order that most people would use in common parlance.

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This annual calendar approaches the convenience of the perpetual variety, as it fully accounts for all the irregularities in the length of months, except for February. The calendar thus requires adjustment only once per year at the end of that month.

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Powering the Bathyscaphe Quantième Annuel is a new caliber, the 6054.P, based upon Blancpain’s in-house twin-barrel 1150 movement, which has been modified with extended bridges creating a wider opening on the caliber.

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The black ceramic unidirectional rotating bezel of the new Bathyscaphe with its Liquidmetal® markings dramatically accents the meteor gray dial.

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The 43mm satin-finished steel case can be fitted with a sail-canvas or NATO strap, as well as a metal bracelet.

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Technical specifications

References:  5071-1110-B52A

Collection: Fifty Fathoms

Model: BATHYSCAPHE Quantième Annuel

Complications
Annual calendar
Case
Satin-brushed steel
Unidirectional satin-brushed steel bezel
with ceramic insert and Liquidmetal® hour-markers
Diameter:     43.00 mm
Thickness:     13.46 mm
Water resistance: 30.00 bar
Between horns:     23.00 mm
Back:   Sapphire crystal
Dial
Meteor grey dial,
Annual Calendar
Date and seconds
Liquidmetal® hour-markers
Functions                
Hours, Minutes, Seconds.
Day of the week, date & month.
Movement
Calibre 6054.P
Self-winding 
Calibre diameter: 32.00.mm
Calibre thickness: 5.73 mm 
Power reserve in hours: 72 hours
Jewels: 34
2 mainspring barrels
Glucydur free sprung balance with gold regulation screws
Secured movement
Components: 362

Strap

Sail canvas strap

Pin Buckle engraved with the BLANCPAIN logo.

* Blancpain reserves the right to modify this model and its technical characteristics.

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Press release - 2018
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Blancpain S.A.
Le Rocher 12
1348 Le Brassus
Suisse
International PR: Aude Rosati
Tel.  (+41) 21 796 3636
Fax (+41) 21 796 3637
E-mail: pr@blancpain.com
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