In the early 1950s when scuba diving was in its infancy, one of the amateur divers was Jean-Jacques Fiechter, who wanted to master the new sport in order to discover antiquities lost under the sea.
Fiechter’s underwater adventures led him to invent the Fifty Fathoms, whose story is engagingly retold in a new two-part documentary, which is in memory of his aunt Betty Fiechter (Blancpain’s CEO from 1932 until 1970) and Captain Robert “Bob” Maloubier OBE.
He was Blancpain’s co-CEO from 1950, and after his aunt’s retirement he led the Swiss company until 1980.
Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Coyote, Fifty Fathoms traces important events in the creation and evolution of the iconic diver’s…
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