2024 Swatch x Blancpain 'Fifty Fathoms' Antarctic Ocean

Here we have a distinctive collaboration coming after the success of the Omega Swatch. This 2024 Swatch x Blancpain 'Fifty Fathoms' Antarctic Ocean honours the iconic Fifty Fathoms, its 42.5mm ice-white Bioceramic case curves over your wrist with tapered lugs. Swatch is proud of its durable case structure, which combines ceramic powder with bio-sourced materials. A contemporary and characteristically playful design with a lug-to-lug length of 48mm and a case thickness of 14.5mm gives the watch an impressive wrist presence. On the right side is a signed bioceramic crown with deep knurling, protected by crown guards. The unidirectional bioceramic bezel features a grey insert with a 60-minute dive scale, coated with Grade A Super-LumiNova, and protected by scratch-resistant bio-sourced glass. It holds a Bio-sourced glass crystal, anti-scratch-coated above a crisp white dial. An outer minute track surrounds baton and dot indexes marking the hours coated in Grade A Super-LumiNova, the characteristic Blancpain Fifty Fathom-shaped hands infilled with the same luminance are complemented by a arrow tipped second hand, at noon, we have the Blancpain x Swatch logos, at 6 o’clock, the functional Scuba circle moisture indicator, that alerts the wearer that moisture has penetrated the watch. The sapphire exhibition case back features the Antarctic Ocean and the Tritoniella Belli nudibranch, a sea slug species found there, printed digitally. Inside an automatic Swatch Sistem51, 19 jewels, completely machine-built and uses a streamlined 51-component movement. The watch comes paired with its 22mm grey and white striped Bond NATO strap made from recycled fishing nets, secured with bioceramic keepers and a pin buckle and comes with its Swatch x Blancpain presentation box and paperwork.

This watch is sold with its original Swatch box and paperwork. The watch comes paired with a 22mm grey-and-white striped Bond NATO strap made from recycled fishing nets, secured with bioceramic keepers and a pin buckle. The watch is from May 2024 and is sold in worn condition, but overall in very fair condition, as you can see. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.

This is the Swatch x Blancpain 'Fifty Fathoms', specifically the 'Antarctic Ocean' model, and it is brilliant on the wrist. After the huge success of the 'Moonswatch', it was inevitable that Swatch would go further, and they landed on the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. I am eager to see where else they go with these collaborations in the future. It is important to remember that these are fun watches; you would be better off with a Seiko Diver if you want a 'serious' tool!

Reference : SO35S100
Movement : Automatic SISTEM51
Age : May 2024
Year : 2024
Case Size : 42.5mm
Case Thickness : 14.5mm
Lug to Lug : 48mm
Lugs : 22mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box and Papers : Box & Papers
Case Material : Plastic
Warranty : 12-Months Warranty
The wrist model's wrist size is 7inch

Swatch is a subsidiary of the Swatch Group and was founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller as a direct response to the Quartz crisis during the 1970s and early Eighties. Its design aesthetic was intended to be fun and yet disposable. In 1997, they opened 60 stores worldwide; today, there are over 3,000. The combination of aggressive marketing and efficient manufacturing using modern technologies such as ultrasonic welding put the Swatch firmly on the map for affordable fun timepieces.