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The Blancpain and Swatch Scuba Fifty Fathoms was probably the most fascinating and talked-about collaborations of 2023. The partnership introduced the toolsy, luxe Fifty Fathoms diver from Blancpain all the way in which right down to $400 and outfitted the watch in a collection of shiny colours impressed by sea slugs. However it seems Swatch and Blancpain are extending their situationship into one thing extra long-term. The pair simply introduced a brand new mannequin dubbed, epically, “OCEAN OF STORMS.”
The Ocean of Storms is much less playful than the earlier watches to return out of this partnership. Whereas different items took their colorways from neon-hued sea slugs, this black-on-black-on-black model of the watch finds extra celestial inspiration. This mannequin appears towards a “sea” on the western fringe of the close to facet of the moon often called Oceanus Procellarum. (The watch, fortunately, does nonetheless have a sea slug on the again: the Okenia Luna native to Peru.)
This can be a intelligent manner for Blancpain and Swatch to increase their present lineup. The remainder of the watches are every named for considered one of Earth’s 5 oceans. This new watch can also be cheekily impressed by an “ocean”—it simply so occurs to be one which takes up 2 million sq. kilometers on the moon.
