2026 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Automatique Titanium 42mm

This 2026 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Automatique Titanium 42mm honours the iconic legacy of the original 1953 diver, its 42mm satin-brushed titanium case curving elegantly over your wrist with tapered lugs. Blancpain is proud of this high-grade alloy construction, which balances immense durability and superior corrosion resistance with an incredibly lightweight profile. A refined and highly wearable layout with a lug-to-lug length of 48mm and a case thickness of 14mm gives the watch a commanding yet versatile wrist presence. On the right side is a signed titanium screw-down crown protected by sleek, integrated crown guards. The unidirectional rotating titanium bezel features a signature scratch-resistant, domed sapphire crystal cap over a black insert with a luminous 60-minute dive scale. It features a domed sapphire crystal above a striking sunray-black dial. An outer minute track surrounds applied, polished hour markers consisting of Arabic numerals at the quarters and arrow indexes, all heavily filled with luminescence. The classic sword-shaped Fifty Fathoms hands are infilled with the same high-grade brilliance, complemented by a central sweeping seconds hand with a luminous wedge tip, a date window nestled neatly at 4:30, and the prestigious Blancpain logo proudly displayed at noon. The sapphire exhibition case back showcases the mechanical mastery within. Inside is the in-house automatic Blancpain Cal. 1315, featuring 35 jewels and a free-sprung silicon balance spring, beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour across three series-coupled mainspring barrels to deliver a staggering 5-day (120-hour) power reserve. The watch comes paired with its integrated 21mm multi-link titanium bracelet secured with a concealed butterfly clasp, and it is complete with its dedicated Blancpain presentation box, a tough Pelican case, a travel case, and paperwork.

This watch is sold with its original Blancpain box, tough Pelican case, travel case and paperwork. The watch comes paired with its integrated 21mm multi-link titanium bracelet secured with a concealed butterfly clasp. The watch is from April 2026 and is sold in worn condition, but overall in very fair condition, as you can see. The watch comes with our 12-Months Warranty.

The Fifty Fathoms has always been a serious piece of watchmaking, but on the pre-owned market, I think the value for money becomes incredibly compelling compared with its retail price. You’re getting one of the most historically important dive watches, an exceptional in-house movement with a five-day power reserve, and the finishing you'd expect from Blancpain, all for a significant saving. Plus, this example is serial "No.2". What surprised me most with this 42mm version, though, is just how comfortable it is. The relatively short 48mm lug-to-lug keeps everything nicely contained on the wrist, while the titanium construction makes it remarkably light for a watch with this much presence. It’s one of those watches where the dimensions on paper really don't tell the whole story. I would not hesitate to add this brilliant watch to your collection today!

Reference : 5010 12B30 98S
Movement : Automatic Blancpain Cal. 1315
Age : April 2026
Year : 2026
Case Size : 42mm
Case Thickness : 14mm
Lug to Lug : 48mm
Lugs : 21mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box and Papers : Box & Papers
Case Material : Titanium
Warranty : 12-Months Warranty
The wrist model's wrist size is 7inch

Jehan-Jacques Blancpain founded his watch business in 1735, utilising the upper floor of his farmhouse as a workshop. His son David-Louis Blancpain (1765-1816) was committed to growing his father's business by travelling often through Europe, in particular to France and Germany, selling and delivering Blancpain watches. Frédéric-Louis handed the company to his son, Frédéric-Emile, when he was just 19 years old, due to his bad health. The company became known as 'E. Blancpain’. Emile achieved remarkable success, building the business into the largest and most effective enterprise in Villeret. Frédéric-Emile, the grandson, continued heading the company until 1932. During his later years, he was joined in 1915 by Betty Fiechter, who assisted him in running the business. She joined the company as an apprentice when she was just 16, and her responsibilities at Blancpain quickly grew to become head of manufacturing and commercial development. Frédéric-Emile was so confident in her skills and talent that he started training her for taking on responsibility for production and becoming the director of the company, which is an incredible achievement for a woman during that time period. In 1926, the company entered into a partnership with John Harwood, a British watchmaker who had produced the first self-winding wristwatch, obtaining a Swiss patent in 1924. With Betty Fiechter as the director, Blancpain had to survive the Great Depression of the 1930s. One such way was to open their movement supply to other brands. In this period, Blancpain became a supplier of Gruen, Elgin and Hamilton, among many others. The brand was renamed "Rayville S.A., succ. de Blancpain" in 1932. Betty Fiechter was joined in 1950 by her nephew Jean-Jacques Fiechter, who had a key role in the development of the Fifty Fathoms, the world’s first modern diving watch, which debuted in 1953. Collaborating with the French combat divers, Jean-Jacques promoted its widespread adoption by many navies around the world, as well as being used by the famous explorer Jacques Cousteau and his team. In 1961, Rayville-Blancpain merged into the largest Swiss watch group, the Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère (SSIH), where they joined Omega, Tissot and Lemania. Inside this Group, they saw huge growth, even building new facilities and production soaring to more than 220,000 pieces by 1971. This growth did not last as a combination of events hit at once. First, we saw the fall of the dollar against the Swiss franc, which reduced their transatlantic exports, and secondly, a serious oil crisis that triggered a worldwide recession; but to top it all, the entire Swiss watchmaking industry was severely hit by the huge growth in imports of quartz watches from Japan, referred to as "the quartz crisis”. A new strategy was seriously needed by the Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère (SSIH), which decided to build its own quartz watches rather than mechanical ones. In 1993, they sold the Rayville-Blancpain name to Frédéric Piguet, a partnership between Jacques Piguet and Jean-Claude Biver, who was at that time an employee of SSIH. The new company traded under the name of Blancpain SA and set up production in an old building belonging to the Piguet family at Le Brassus, in the Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. In 1991, Blancpain presented the most complicated wristwatch in the world at the time: the 1735 Grande Complication. This incredible timepiece featured a one-minute tourbillon regulator, a perpetual calendar with moon phases and moon age, a co-axial split-seconds chronograph and a minute repeater activated by the slide on the band. It took over ten months of work by a master watchmaker; the Blancpain 1735 Grande Complication had a production run of just 30 pieces from 1991 to 2009. In 1992, the Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) bought Blancpain SA back for 60 million Swiss Francs (that is more than 1000 times the amount that was paid in 1983 for the brand ). It was during this time that SSIH and ASUAG - the two largest Swiss watch groups - merged into the Swiss Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking Industries Ltd. (SMH). SMH was later renamed The Swatch Group in 1998. Jean-Claude Biver remained CEO of the company until 2003; from then on, Marc A. Hayek has been the CEO.