And it took forever.

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bronze Milspecs. 14 years of investigation on case numbers

By: amanico : October 11th, 2022-05:53

14 years since now. In fact, it took me 5 years to fully understand the Fifty Fathoms Bronze Milspec case. From 2008 to 2013... In 2008, I discovered two Bronze Milspec, an US NAVY and a " Civilian ". Since then, I started to investigate on them, contacte...

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Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bronze Milspecs. 14 years of investigation on case numbers

What an interesting review to start the day with, Nicolas!

Nice modern contender, mon ami. The spirit is here.

No comparison here,

Not at all, the BB is very well made!

It is, but those are historical pieces...

Many thanks for the superb overview

My pleasure, Richard. See you soon!

Thanks for informative post, Nicolas. By the way, pics are superb!

Thank you so much for your kind words, J K.

300 K posts ! Congratulations !!! And what a post ! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 ! Thank you so much for all your work for us !

+1

A thousand thanks, Marc.

I tried to choose it carefully. And it was a good opportunity to reveal a watch I have hidden for 10 years. ;)

Damn research you have done for so many years! Congratulations for this fantastic post!

Grazie, amicu.

Informative, interesting and impressive! Thank's for the post and the fantastic photos!

My pleasure, Im6.

Great research job and thanks for sharing ! This is typically a purist's worry to understand the specs of specific models :) It is part of the pleasure, you learn so many important things.

That will be with great pleasure. Yes, it takes some time. There is almost no literature on this one.

I hope the answer is never found, Nicolas. The mystery . . .

Superb statement. I like that a lot. Thanks, Don Turo.

A very interesting and informative post indeed! Thank you!

Merci, Colin.

Great 300,000th post. So informative, like so many others. Cheers to you ami!

Aaah, you see, it finally came! ;)

And it took forever.

Hahaha! ;)

Is it 300k or 3M? I can't read all of the zeroes!

Who knows, who knows... ;) Merci, Michael.

Great job!

Do you remember the case number of your Bronze? Well, we'll see if I am able to discover where are the good twenty others. ;) Merci, Brian.

Love seeing all your research and the photos of so many amazing condition milspecs, thank you for putting this together! Of all watches I think the FF has some of the most fascinating history and mysteries worth discovering

How right you are! Thanks, Fastwong, mon ami.

Thank you Nico for a tremendous 300k post! Ça fait toujours plaisir! 🙂

Plaisir partagé! Merci, Oyster Case.

You picked a great one for #300K!

I do think so! ;)

Congrats Nico for.... all!

Aaah, my friend, they had civilian hands because at the exception of the 5 US Navy Protos I know, the others were not proto and came with a civilian dial and hands, and the AS 1700 instead of the AS 1361.

I was certain you would make this post special my friend and your report is yet again exemplary ! Congratulations on an unsurpassable milestone, thank you for such a detailed and informative piece of research and

Thank you for the kind words, my friend Will.

Bravo Nico, for this investigation

Oh yes, it was definitely a good one, the 3208. ;)

Bronze?

You can pass on this one. ;)

Great write up 👍

Thank you, Miguel.

Thank you so much for a very interesting and topic

Thanks for reading, my friend Hans.

Bronze

Thank you so much for your very valuable feedback on these Bronze, mon ami JL.

Fantastic post dear Nicolas!! A lot of interesting information gathered during such a long period of work and investigation and stunning pictures to illustrate it. What a project!!

I have some other posts like this in reserve... ;)

Look forward to that dear Nicolas!! This is a wonderful source of information that you share here!! Muchas gracis amigo! Un abrazo! Abel

Next investigation, the Fifty Fathoms AM. ;)

That sounds very interesting!! Look forward to that post! Abrazos amigo mio! Abel

Still digging a bit the topic...

Ah, yes. I imagine that to make a post like this one is not an easy task and something which can take years to research. Well worth the waiting and very generous of you to share here.

And I don't have all my answers, too...

I feel that in the history of this wonderful watch several questions will remain unanswered but you are making a great job with the big quantities of questions collectors make you finally resolved with your research.

All together, we'll solve some mysteries.

Of course!!