Blancpain

Bonjour, The long anticipated 50 has arrived, an interesting piece with lovely subtle details. As you can observe in the third picture I have swapped out the nato strap for a more traditional piece with leather and deployant. You use two .9 mm hex tools a...  

Very nice Blancpain you've got there. Thank you for sharing! Will you be swimming with yours?

I did so with the stock Nato strap on the first day, I do not baby my dive watches. Regards MSB

If I had one, I'd probably do some light swimming and snorkeling with it. Maybe not diving since I wear a dive computer on my left wrist and there's no more wrist real estate.

Even though I am now living in great dive country... MSB

You should take advantage! It's easy to learn how to dive!

...that's the idea after all, Watch companies make sure that they market their products with a story behind, it adds value to our perception as potential buyers, but us as users making our own stories is what makes our things unique as we all are.