Water resistance. Robust double-sealed crown. Automatic winding movement. White-on-black dial with large, luminescent indications. Rotating unidirectional bezel. Anti-magnetic protection. These are the key elements that divers seek in a watch to keep them safe in an aquatic environment.
It might be hard to imagine now, but these criteria only appeared in the same timepiece—the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms—for the first time in 1953. Naturally, this set the benchmark for all dive watches that followed.
Brush With Danger
Necessity is the mother of invention, and perhaps none more so
