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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ArtyA – Arabesque 2 Chrono Tourbillon Monopusher

ArtyA – Complications Arabesque 2 Chrono Tourbillon Monopusher Titanium - Unique pieces

Hand engraved Titanium 

Monopusher Chrono Tourbillon 1/1

ArtyA has developed a 2nd unique hand engraved Titanium watch in a tonneau shape, after the immediate sell out of the first one realized in 2015.

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As of now ArtyA is still the only Brand in the world 

to be able to present this type of exceptional masterpiece.

Here’s exactly why it’s exceptional:

The arabesque motifs on the titanium grade 5 watch were very difficult to work and very labour intensive !! The final result stands in the age-old tradition of royal gunsmiths.

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The way the case has been made – engraved out of grade 5 titanium, more usually renowned for its outstanding hardness. The floral motifs draw inspiration from foliage patterns on historic gun stocks. The watch is made from as-cast titanium and inlaid with 18-carat gold by master engraver Bram Ramon, he has once again used innovative techniques in watchmaking for ArtyA, coupled with the influences of Gothic art.

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This hand-produced pattern is in himself an outstanding achievement for any craftsman. But the really eye-catching exploit for any connoisseur is that for the first time in watchmaking, it is engraved in grade 5 titanium.

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This material is already used in watchmaking – for its hardness. So engraving patterns on it is counter-intuitive, to say the least. And that was precisely the approach that attracted Yvan Arpa: “titanium is sold to us as an absolute, the epitome of toughness: resistant to impacts, corrosion, temperature, and so on. In actual fact, it’s simply a little more resistant than the reference materials we have always been used to, such as steel. And instead of machining it clinically, it can be worked with to produce a piece of art – as I have now demonstrated.”

Inspiration

The choice of arabesque patterns is a highly personal touch by Yvan Arpa. “I got the idea from a western,” he explains. “I noticed the engraved stock of a rifle. The patterns were perfect. I drew some patterns in the same spirit then validated the model with Bram Ramon who redesigned the idea; they went on to fashion this outstanding watch.”

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The Arabesque Tourbillon is powered by a fabulous hand-wound Swiss-made historical mechanical mono pusher chrono tourbillon, regulated by a flying tourbillon with an outstanding Five-days (120-hours) power reserve. There has been a lot of high watchmaking work to secure it to the highest standard of ArtyA Complications collection. The fantastic look of this movement adds to the magic of this incredible and unique masterpiece .

The watch is engraved with “Pièce Unique – 1/1”, on a full-skin crocodile strap.

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Technical Specifications

Collection: Complications

Model:  Arabesque 2 Chrono Tourbillon Monopusher

MOVEMENT
Oval-shaped manual winding historical chrono Tourbillon 
POWER RESERVE 120 hours
With chronograph engaged: 75 hours
CHRONOGRAPH
Tourbillon cage toothed rim drives the seconds counter
Column wheel
TOURBILLON
Swiss anchor escapement
Cage rotates once a minute
Cage weight: 0.45g
FREQUENCY: 21,600 vibrations per hour
INDICATIONS

• Hours, minutes
• Power reserve
• Timed minutes and seconds 

CASE
Titanium Grade 5
Unique piece in titanium hand engraved with 24cts gold inlay
Dimensions: 55 x 45  mm
Height:15 mmWaterproofness:  30 m
Five non-reflective sapphire crystals, front and back.
Open back.
STRAP
Black Crocodile strap
Buckle: Pin buckle

Unique Piece 1/1

Price: 260'000 CHF

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