Blancpain

Any category of watch has its «Grail» complication. If the sounding complications are the Grail of the dressed-up watches, the chronograph is that of the sports watches, the diver’s Grail is undoubtedly the depth gauge. 2007 was somewhat the year of the d...  

I As definitely interested by this watch when it came out. I had a lot of questions and the size was an issue. I also read some of critics and basically agree with your analysis. I think that it is nice to invent mechanical things as opposed to using elec... 

Engineers, to ask them about the size, the colors of the deepth gauge indicator, etc...

Thank you so much for the review very nice reading. Cheers, Fernando

the X Fathoms and the Fifty Fathoms is great Hope to see X Fathoms in the metal, soon. “back to basics” - Well, I am not sure about that ;-) Thanks for sharing, Oliver

"The most futile talked about « the uselessness of an enormous mechanical depth gauge when dive computers exist»" I think this misrepresents the argument *for* dive computers and why they are so preferred over timers & tables. Especially for rec... 

Thanks for the writeup pifpaf! The HH Journal article on the exciting launch caught my eye and I came straight to the forum to look for more. You've covered all depths from 0-90m! This does look like a pretty well designed, purpose timepiece and not a des... 

I look at this watch and see what I feel is everything unfortunate about the direction of the sport watch industry... a crazily oversized beast of a watch with all kinds of pointless design features... a watch no one will ever use of its designed purpose.... 

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