You missed them in Basel; come see them in New York. Blancpain, which skipped the Baselworld watch fair this year along with its sister brands in the Swatch Group, will once again be among the exhibiting watch brands at this year?s WatchTime New York collectors’ event on October 25-26. Among its highlight timepieces for 2019, which will be seen by U.S. audiences for the first time at the show, is the new rose-gold cased model of the manufacture’s Fifty Fathoms luxury dive watch, featuring an all-new blue ceramic dial.
This Blancpain Fifty Fathoms for 2019 is the first with a precious-metal case and a blue ceramic dial.
The watch?s 18k rose gold case measures 45 mm in diameter and features a satin-brushed finish. Water-resistant to 300 meters and 15.4 mm thick, the case is the first made of precious metal to be used in the Fifty Fathoms collection, which dates all the way back to 1953, when it made diving-watch history with its pioneering unidirectional bezel. Also a first in the venerable collection is the use of blue ceramic for the dial. Blancpain has previously used colored ceramic for the bezels of its Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe models. touting the material’s impressive hardness (six times that of steel), stability, and longevity. The ceramic dial debuting on this model boasts a shimmering cobalt hue for the sunburst-finish center of the dial and a more matte blue appearance for the surrounding chapter ring. The ratcheting unidirectional divers? bezel h...