America’s premier watch collectors’ event, WatchTime New York, is now less than a week away from making its triumphant return to Gotham Hall after a year’s hiatus. Once again, we are delighted to welcome Blancpain, among the exhibiting watch brands, which will have among its highlight timepieces the rose-gold cased model of its Fifty Fathoms luxury dive watch, featuring a luxurious 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 has a scratch-proof domed insert made of sapphire. The dial?s hour markers and hands are coated with Super-LumiNova for easy legibility in low light or deep beneath the waves. A date window ? an indicator first added ...