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Blancpain X Fathoms, The beast ! , Please factories... ;)
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extremely beautiful! But 24mm height? AP ROOs are 15/16mm and with that size I continuously hit my watch against almost everything. I have even accidentally scratched my Mercedes once with it.
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I can honestly say, I am not a fan of this one. To me, the Blancpain are understated, elegant setup pieces with a nice 3hand setup. This looks too much like a mismatch of styles.
Most professionals will probably, if they want a useful underwater tool while diving (where you can actually push any button while underwater) a Japanese watch like a Casio or Citizen. I dont go deep sea diving but a few times a year I like to go for a dive and the best watch I have used in extreme situations is my G-Shock
Most likely is the Blancpain mostly gonna be worn by extremly rich old man, most likely rich oil arabs (as Blancpain mainly focus their biz on the middle east)
Looks like a Blancpain channeling a Citizen diver!! Like was said above, commercial divers pretty much wear semi-disposable watches. They aren't going to spend the kind of bucks that it would take to buy this one, and secondly, who in the world would risk banging a 20K watch against a steel pipe or a coral head or looking down, and your watch is gone!. I have been diving for around 35 years, and I can tell you, when I was diving a lot and instructing, taking students to the Caribbean for check out dives, my watch looked like holy heck, scratches, all over from just hitting hard coral, banging them against dive platforms trying to get back on the boat, etc.. not a really secure environment for a watch. I wore a Chronosport UDT through all those dives, and when I finally quit instructing and cut back my diving about 10 years later, the UDT was in pretty terrible shape. Just saying this because I have been around some pretty hard core divers and most wear fairly inexpensive watches. Everyone uses computers today, so a watch is almost redundant.
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Apologies in advance as I do not mean to be condescending but you have a limited view on the lifestyle of the kind of people who buy this type of watches...
Luxury Sports watch, Diving watch in particular are meant to me worn used and abused... This is ultimate luxury !
This is the whole point of it, the "chic" of the aesthetes... Wearing a piece of luxury with the scars of one's multiple game plays: a testament to an epic battle with a 300 lbs swordfish.. or a fight with a shark (small
.. ) ...It does not get better than that...
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Apologies in advance as I do not mean to be condescending but you have a limited view on the lifestyle of the kind of people who buy this type of watches...
Luxury Sports watch, Diving watch in particular are meant to me worn used and abused... This is ultimate luxury !
This is the whole point of it, the "chic" of the aesthetes... Wearing a piece of luxury with the scars of one's multiple game plays: a testament to an epic battle with a 300 lbs swordfish.. or a fight with a shark (small
It does not get better than that...
I believe you misunderstood what I wrote. I'm not talking about above water sports such as deep sea fishing, etc. I was only speaking about diving. I have been actively diving for about 35 years, all over the Caribbean and some in the Pacific. I have been on lots of dive boats with a lot of different folks. Honestly, I have seen a few Rolex subs( in fact I dove with a Sub 1680 for several years until a guy on one of our dive trips lost his watch when the spring bar broke. Could have easily been mine), a couple of Tudors and several old Omega 300's many years ago. That's it. I have never seen a contemporary AP, Blancpain or any other expensive dive watch that I could identify. Most people were wearing Seiko's, Citizens, G-shocks, etc. The past few years, I have been diving with a MKII Stingray, which when I got it was about a 600.00 USD watch.
And as far as knowing about lifestyles, well, I have been a practicing Anesthesiologist for about 40 years, I make a pretty decent income, and we hobnob with quite a few pretty darn wealthy people. Most of the people that my wife and I associate with are successful, but by and large you would not be able to tell except for the size of some of the diamonds!! The guys generally are pretty low key and most are more about who you are rather than what you wear. I find two things about wealth, One the older you get, the less all this matters, and second the folks that I know that are what we call "old money" are almost overboard in their attempts to appear like all of the rest of us. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, and I'm sure the rules are different in large cities where everyone is trying to impress everyone else . In lots of societies, what you drive and wear are much more important, and of course if your net worth is 10 million as opposed to 100 million, you might have a different take on things. Sorry to get off the subject of the watch in question, but I wanted to clarify my position.
But all of this aside, While this watch is very interesting, I don't think it will be a terribly popular model, primarily based on the size and bulk. If it were a 42 or 44mm size, it would probably be of interest to a much larger segment of wealthy sportsman.
the one real diver I know wears two dive computers, basically two of everything plus different tanks for different depths etc but then he goes down to 120 feet which I have discovered through his lectures is no walk in the park. I don't think he wears any watch.
Not a problem sir, I too am and amateur now, I gave up teaching students a long time ago. I would rather just recreation dive and not have to worry about 6-8 little tadpoles swimming around outside a pool for the first time!! I enjoy photography and it's impossible to take photos underwater when you have people you are responsible for.again apologies, I did not mean to sound arrogant. I am also a certified Diver but just an amateur