⌚ This Week’s Biggest Timepiece News 1. Blancpain brings back a seriously good vintage Bathyscaphe The Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe 70th Anniversary is one of the strongest releases of the week. Blancpain went back to its 1968 design and, importantly, kept the vintage proportions: 37.4 mm steel case, automatic Calibre 1150, 100-hour power reserve, meteor-grey dial and only 300 pieces. U.S. retail is $18,300. (Blancpain) This is the one I'd watch closely. Instead of making another oversized modern Fifty Fathoms, Blancpain actually listened to collectors wanting something smaller and historically accurate. 2. Glashütte Original completely cleans up its Senator Chronograph Two new versions arrived: the dressier Senator Chronograph and black-dial Senator Chronograph Navigator. Both shrink to 41 mm × 12.9 mm and use the in-house Calibre 37-24 flyback chronograph with Panorama Date and 70-hour reserve. They're $16,100 on strap or $17,100 on bracelet. (Hodinkee) The Navigator is the interesting one to me. It gives Glashütte Original a legitimate non-diver tool watch and looks much less cluttered than the outgoing Senator Chronograph. 3. A brand-new serious independent: Legare This might be the most interesting horology story of the week. Wei Koh and Guillaume Tetu officially launched Legare, and the first watch is the Chapter 1 AGP Inverted. It resurrects the concept of Albert-Gustave Piguet's extraordinary 1932 double-balance pocket-watch movement, with the mechanism inverted so the two balances and differential are displayed from the dial side. (Hodinkee) It's surprisingly wearable for something this technical: 37.5 mm titanium, 9.95 mm thick, manual wind, 50-hour reserve. There are just 25 Elegant and 25 Darth versions, priced at CHF 81,944 before tax. (Hodinkee)