That is one classy diver, the dial looks gorgeous.
Excuse my ignorance but what's the RRP on it?
Went with a friend on Tuesday this week to look at the Blue Dial Ceramic Bathyscaphe 43.5mm hes looking at buying.
I must say, it's absolutely stunning in the flesh. I was a bit dismissive on the way, and held no notion I would be at all enamored with it... The date window at 4. 30, all that empty dial with the little hour markers.. Nahhhh not for me, how wrong I was.
The ceramic case is a kind of gun metal, and really compliments the stunning Blue dial.
The only stumbling block is they won't move on price from the RRP.
Are discounts available for Blancpain in the UK?
He may be better of waiting as I told him I'm pretty sure you could get a discount when you return to UK.
However, he is pretty sure they will contact him this evening and any sort of discount will tip him over the edge...
Anyone of this parish have one of these?
As they say, pictures don't do this watch justice... Especially mine ;)
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That is one classy diver, the dial looks gorgeous.
Excuse my ignorance but what's the RRP on it?
Discounts are available via the greys. Check with Heritage Watches if they have one, if not e-mail them and ask if they can get you one.
https://www.heritagewatches.co.uk/blancpain
That does look lovely but just looking at those lovely svelte lugs makes my spine crawl. 10k to wear something that you’ll have to baby for fear of snapping a lug off?
I suspect the number of instances where owners have damaged their ceramic cased watch is low, compared to numbers sold but how many people have bought one and then been overly precious with it? The most horrific example for a while was an IWC but then I saw an Omega DSOTM with a sheared off lug and a gaping wound in the case and that was it for me. Even more so when I read that the damaged case wasn’t covered under warranty.
I have to say that puts me right off ceramic cases. You'd probably need to drop it from a height onto a concrete floor to break a lug, but still, a steel case would just have a scratch.
The Bathyscaphe is like marmite. A lot of people preffer the traditonal fift fathoms.
If they made this in a 40MM, none LTD i'd add one right away.
I've owned lots of ceramic cased watches and I don't really baby them. When I sold them on they still looked brand new, it is a tough material and light weight of course. Steel or ceramic? Ceramic every time for me.
Far out of my budget, but none of the Bathyscaphes do much for me.
I thought maybe I needed to see it in person, but no.
The traditional Fifty Fathoms (simple black 3 hander on a sailcloth strap), though, would be a definite lottery win purchase.
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