I love this Blancpain sports watch and I love the name “Fifty Fathoms“; it sounds like a super fly pitch black car that talks and transforms and only comes out at night. Imagination aside, the watch is pretty awesome and the basics include a unidirectional bezel, antimagnetic case, self-winding movement, and a black dial.

The solid blackness of the watch makes it undeniably alluring and mysterious as only a few hundred of them leave Blancpain’s workshop each year. There are lots of things I love about this particular Fifty Fathoms watch. The first is its ultra slim status.  It comes in at 15.50 mm case thickness, 45 mm in diameter, 23 mm between horns, 5.65 mm calibre thickness, 30.60 calibre diameter, and an ultra slim self winding movement.

Even though the  Fifty Fathoms SPORT watch by Blancpain has a date, it doesn’t have a double window date indication, which keeps in with the simple and sleek design.  With all this mystery; there must be an amazing story a behind the watch, right? Yes!

The Fifty Fathoms collection came to design when the French Ministry of defense approached Blancpain about creating an elite watch for combat divers that could withstand underwater missions.  From then the collection earned credibility among other country special forces units including French Navy GERS and movies like World of Silence.

Oooo Pierce Bronson, nothing says suave like James Bond, Pierce Bronson, or Blancpain. I’ve really liked a lot of Pierce’s films, even some of the obscure ones. Actually ‘The Matador’ was one of my all time favorite Pierce movies. He played such an unusual good/bad guy in that. You couldn’t help but love him even though he was a stone cold killer suffering a professional crisis, and was probably a little bit insane. It’s just Pierce’s style. There’s something about his dashing looks that can make any woman swoon, and he just looks so cool and calm about it. I bet he woudn’t break a sweat even when mobbed by adoring fans. It’s more than that though. It’s the inner calm like a tornado could whip by and he’d just give it his little glare and dare it to take him with. Gotta love a guy with that much attitude and that doesn’t flaunt it like an idiot.