Blancpain

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The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Nageurs de Combat was introduced in 2019 as a limited edition of 2019. It serves as a tribute to the French Combat Swimmers unit (Nageurs de Combat) who were one of the first to test the original 1953 Fifty Fathoms dive watch., , Supporting this initiative, the French army authorized Blancpain to engrave the Combat Diver Qualification Badge – featuring a central anchor, dedicated to sailors and flanked by two winged seahorses representing the underwater world as well as parachutists – on the caseback of the new model. The dial discreetly displays a second emblem – the number 7. As oxygen becomes toxic when its partial pressure reaches 1.7 bar, the maximum depth that commando frogmen can reach when using pure oxygen is seven metres, a number that has thus become a symbolic figure in this milieu.