A trio of new Blancpain creations to accompany you to office meetings, evening soirees, weekend dive expeditions—or any occasion that calls for a watch with gravitas and style
Dressing appropriately for the occasion is imperative—not only for making an impression, but also to ensure that you are sartorially equipped to handle the demands of the day. A high-powered boardroom conference demands a wardrobe that exudes understated authority. An evening engagement calls for glamour. Dive trips, on the other hand, are all about being outfitted with practicality and reliability in mind.
Blancpain understands the brief. Founded in 1735, the Swiss luxury watchmaking house has, over the centuries, built a repertoire of timepieces that span the design and technical spectrum, amalgamating both tradition and innovation in its watch collections. Its latest releases— Fifty Fathoms Tech, Ladybird Colors Nude Moka, and Villeret Ultraplate 38mm—are designed as trusty wrist companions that help you power through from work to play, while elevating your get-up with indelible finesse.
Fifty Fathoms Tech
The world’s first true dive watch surfaces with the new Fifty Fathoms Tech. Introduced in 1953, the original Fifty Fathoms wrote the blueprint for the modern dive watch with a series of standard-setting features including high water-resistance, high legibility, and robustness and reliability underwater.
Among the watch’s innovations is the secured rotating bezel, which helps measure remaining dive times in 60-minute increments. The Fifty Fathoms Tech updates the feature with a three-hour bezel with a corresponding hand, which extends the measurement duration that is ideal for professional technical divers, underwater photographers, and scientists.
Clad in a 47mm titanium case, the watch is additionally equipped with a host of utilitarian features. These include 300m water resistance, a date display for everyday versatility, an absolute black dial that absorbs 97 per cent of light for underwater legibility, and new tool-less strap change system. And powering the Fifty Fathoms Tech is an absolute workhorse: the automatic Calibre 13P5A with 120-hour power reserve.
Villeret Ultraplate 38mm
The best dress watches are the ones that sit quietly on the wrist, while exuding impeccable presence. That has always been the Villeret’s best calling card and, with the introduction of new 38mm models to the family, the watch now adds versatile style to its list of winsome features.
The Villeret Ultraplate 38mm joins the emblematic 40mm as a second entry point into a collection built on proportion and restraint. At its heart is the automatic Calibre 1150 with 100-hour power reserve, which sits within a slim case measuring just 8.35mm in height. The new iteration comes with two dial options, available in stainless steel or 18k red gold cases. The first features a sunburst salmon dial that shifts between copper, rose, and gold across the course of a day. The second, exclusive to Blancpain boutiques, pairs a steel case with solid 18k yellow-gold numerals and gold-toned opaline dial.
Both models share the refined aesthetic language introduced across Villeret last autumn: the JB monogram at twelve, slender Super-LumiNova hands, a larger date aperture at three o’clock, and an elegant disposition that owns the room with characteristically subtle refinement.
Ladybird Colors Nude Moka
Each year, Blancpain adds a new shade to the Ladybird Colors palette. This year, we see the introduction of Nude Moka, a tone drawn from the family of natural materials—leather, raw wool, coffee—that deepen and grow richer with time.
More assertive than beige yet softer than brown, Nude Moka occupies a register of its own. The shade appears on the satin-like alligator leather strap, as well as in two tones on the dial’s Roman numerals—lighter at the centre, and darker at the edges to create a sense of depth. The dial itself is crafted from nacre perlée. The rarest form of mother-of-pearl used in watchmaking, it is sourced from the most curved central section of specific cultured shells, and represents less than two per cent of all usable material extracted. As such, each shell yields no more than two dials, and no two dials are alike.
The Ladybird Colors Nude Moka is presented in two versions. The first features two interlaced circles of 70 diamonds totalling two carats on the dial, with additional stone-setting on the bezel, lugs, crown, and buckle. The second features a snow-setting of 152 additional diamonds totalling over 2.4 carats across the dial’s centre. Both are housed in 34.9mm 18k red or white gold cases, and are powered by the automatic Calibre 1163L with a four-day power reserve, moon phase, and small seconds at six o’clock.
