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The film gives the background to the key inventions — all patented — which Fiechter developed, explained by a master watchmaker from Blancpain’s vintage department. The film also recounts the saga of the US Navy’s multiyear testing programme that led to the selection of the Fifty Fathoms as its dive watch and gave rise to the famous MIL-SPEC models.
Equally fascinating is the German Navy chapter and the creation of the Bund No Rad model that was created for the German Navy’s combat swimmers. Blancpain websiteThe documentary is narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor and author Peter Coyote and includes an interview with Fiechter – himself a historian, and now 94 years old.
The second part of the documentary fast-forwards to the modern era, when Marc A Hayek, Blancpain’s current president and CEO, revived the Fifty Fathoms. A scuba diver himself, Hayek has the same pioneering spirit as Fiechter and has redefined the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms as not only a diving instrument but also a timepiece and an important role player in the fight to preserve the world’s oceans.
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