Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bakelite Bezel longines during the so-called Quartz Crisis

during the so-called Quartz Crisis of the early 1970s

with a to-die-for dial

it can only have been worn a few times

The watch features a cream dial with moon phase indicator cut out at 12 o’clock

The brushed fixed 24-hour bezel is also in really fantastic condition

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bakelite Bezel longines during the so-called Quartz CrisisAn early Blancpain diverThis is a very rare and very early Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. Credited as the first divers watch with uni directional bezel, the Fifty Fathoms was designed by the then CEO of Jean Jacques Fiecht who was an avid diver, in the early 1950s. Available tot he public in 1953 ( same year as the first Rolex submariner), and used by many Armed forces (French, German, Israeli, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and most famously,