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if I can't find another one soon. But maybe my posts gave some motivation to other people here which want to share their treasures or informations with us now. best regards claude

I wish I had more of these old documents, original papers and ads! That is the only way to get some serious informations and to get a through-view! best claude

still glowing very smoothly in white, so I am sure they used a very strong Radium at the beginning! (That's why the dial from my FF is so nicely etched) You own so many different and beautiful military versions, so I was curious if maybe some of the military versions used the same Radium. best regar

They are from divestraps dot com !! Thank you so much for your comments!! best----claude

Remember also that in the early 60's the printing quality wasn't on the same high standard then today, and it's only a reproduction of the original ! You can see very well a wide white border! best my friend --Claude

I don't think so that it is a different bezel. It's not a studio photograph and you can see that the watch is strongly lighted by the sun. I think these are only reflections from the steel borders of the bezel. Also the whole watch and the bezel looks not round but oval and the black insert is much

Sometime around 1964, Blancpain recognised that it needed a way to distinguish its military Fifty Fathom production from its civilian production, and the particular problem it had in mind was the use of radioactive coatings. To demark civilian watches, that of course used no radioactive products of