We frequently talk about the rich heritage of Blancpain dive watches reaching back into the 1950s, most recently with the Bathyscaphe 70th anniversary. There’s another type of Blancpain watch with a no less exciting history celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Ladybird. To commemorate the early days of the Ladybird with its unique blend of watchmaking and jewelry the manufacture has just launched the Lady B, so let’s take a closer look.

On October 15 Blancpain introduced a facelift of the Villeret collection with 3 models featuring a plentiful of subtle yet powerful changes. Before I can hopefully soon share a hands-on with the watches, let’s take a look at the official Blancpain material on new Villeret and the new technical and design elements.

This year, more specifically on November 5, we will again enjoy a Only Watch auction held in Geneva. Blancpain contributes to the exceptional bi-annual event since 2005, and of course there’s a beautiful unique piece this year: a Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Act 1 with blue dial and bezel.

These days 210 excited collectors wait for their Fifty Fathoms 70th Anniversary Act 1 to be delivered very shortly, which gave me the idea to (again) make its predecessor, the Fifty Fathoms 50th Anniversary, the topic two decades after its introduction.

The early 2000s saw the start of some influential new trends in the world of wristwatches, one of them being the constant increase in size. Today’s subject goes beyond the simple enlargement of a classic, let’s take a closer look at the Leman reference 2850.

This post will compare the six 40mm Fifty Fathoms editions, starting with the 2003 FF Anniversary and of course including the two most recent watches, the FF MIL-SPEC for Hodinkee and the Tribute to FF No Rad. Let’s dig into the details and see how the timepieces relate to each other.

The striking combination of a red gold case with a blue dial has characterized some recent Blancpain novelties, now it materializes for the first time in the Bathyscaphe series. Let’s take a look at the new Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Sedna Gold ‚Blue‘ in a large variety of close-up impressions and wrist shots.

This time we explore two very different timepieces with an often underrated complication, the annual calendar. Let’s get up close with the Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT and the Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantieme Annuel.