{"product_id":"blancpain-2021-fifty-fathoms-bathyscaphe-day-date-desert-limited-edition","title":"Blancpain - 2021 Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day-Date Desert Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eWHAT WE LOVE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlancpain is the oldest watchmaking name in continuous existence, dating to 1735, and the Fifty Fathoms — first produced for the French Navy's combat divers in 1953 — holds the genuine claim to being the world's first commercially available modern dive watch. The Bathyscaphe Day-Date \"Desert\" Edition takes that diving heritage and reframes it entirely, drawing inspiration from a rare 1970s Day-Date diver while building a colour story around arid landscape rather than ocean depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sand-coloured sunburst dial is the entire concept made visible. Subtly graduated across its surface — lighter toward the centre, deepening toward the edge — it shifts in tone as light moves across it, evoking the colour transitions of desert terrain under changing sun. Bold rectangular hour indices and Super-LumiNova-filled hands provide the high-contrast legibility a genuine dive watch demands, while the silver chapter ring with Arabic five-minute markers adds a layer of vintage detail that connects this watch directly to its 1970s inspiration. The day and date display at 3 o'clock — a complication that appeared on relatively few Fifty Fathoms references historically, making this lineage genuinely uncommon within Blancpain's own catalogue — adds practical daily utility without disrupting the dial's considered restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe unidirectional bezel pairs satin-brushed steel with a brown ceramic insert, and the hour markers are executed in Liquidmetal — a proprietary amorphous metal alloy that bonds at a molecular level with the ceramic surface, producing markings that will never fade, chip, or wear regardless of years of exposure. At 43mm with a 14.25mm case height, the watch carries real wrist presence. Designed for genuine outdoor use, completes a watch that commits fully to its desert concept from case to wrist. Limited to 500 pieces worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWHAT'S INSIDE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 5052-1146-E52A is powered by Blancpain's in-house Calibre 1315DD — a self-winding movement of 37 jewels and 281 components, beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour and delivering an exceptional power reserve of 120 hours, achieved through three stacked mainspring barrels. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFIVEFORTYFIVE SIX MONTHS \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eWARRANTY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blancpain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53679853273361,"sku":"24551","price":16750.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0072\/5332\/7960\/files\/Blancpain-2021-Fifty-Fathoms-Bathyscaphe-Day-Date-Desert-Limited-Edition245511-7.jpg?v=1782272185","url":"https:\/\/fivefortyfive.nz\/products\/blancpain-2021-fifty-fathoms-bathyscaphe-day-date-desert-limited-edition","provider":"FiveFortyFive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}