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Incredibly wrong bezel on the BLP063 - Fifty Fathoms Flyback Chrono SS/NY Black OMF Asia 7750?

Sandrasekhar

Horology Curious
30/4/19
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Maybe it's just me, but the OMF BLP063 - Fifty Fathoms Flyback Chrono seems to have an incredibly wrong bezel -- see https://www.trustytime02.cc/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=19&products_id=20591&zenid=16c156d9a688db4a29feca6f413dd4c3 and https://puretimewatch.io/fifty-fathoms-chronograph-ss-omf-1-1-best-edition-black-dial-numeral-markers-on-black-nylon-strap-a7750.html, with the "45" at 3 o'clock and the "15" at 9 o'clock. Is it possible that the bezel could be so incredibly wrong -- see, for example, https://www.crownandcaliber.com/products/blancpain-fifty-fathoms-flyback-chronograph-5085f-1130-52-10-10-blp-78qbu3? Are there ever diving watch bezels that have the "45" at 3 o'clock and the "15" at 9 o'clock? If this is a big error, why would TDs like Trusty and PureTime even sell it with that bezel? Thanks!
 

Sandrasekhar

Horology Curious
30/4/19
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I think I found an answer, of sorts, here--https://dlmag.com/blancpain-air-command-chronograph-watch-revamped/--though I still think the bezel on the Fifty Fathoms Chronograph is wrong. I had no idea that there was a such a thing as a count-down or a count-up diving bezel. From the cited post:

The story of the original Blancpain Air Command goes back to the time when the US Navy found Blancpain’s famous dive watch Fifty Fathoms, very useful and impressive. The Swiss manufacture worked on a similar model for the Airforce, and the result was equally impressive. The Air Command version we saw back in the late fifties, was a Fifty Fathoms base watch, spruced up to include a Flyback chronograph function, a tachymeter scale, and a countdown bezel. This countdown bezel is the opposite of the count up bezel that we saw on the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms.
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To help you understand this, ‘count up’ timers are those where you set the ‘zero’ mark to the minute hand, and this helps you know how long you have been diving and under water. Count down bezels are typically seen in military and pilot watches, and this is to help coordinate the team’s strikes or to track the precise time since a bomb has been dropped. Coming back to the present day, the Blancpain Air Command Chronograph Watch is in many ways a classic watch, re-released.
 
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Sandrasekhar

Horology Curious
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I should update my post by adding that the dealer went out of his way to get me the correct bezeI at no cost to me—would say above and beyond since, in all candor, this should have been evident to me from the QC pics.
 

Sandrasekhar

Horology Curious
30/4/19
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I should update my post by adding that the dealer went out of his way to get me the correct bezeI at no cost to me—I would say above and beyond—since, in all candor, this should have been evident to me from the QC pics.