Why Serious Watch Collectors Are Talking About This Maserati Collaboration

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If you thought watch collaborations pinch car brands were conscionable for nan boys, nan UltraFino Maserati is astir to alteration your mind. Unveiled astatine Watches and Wonders 2026 successful Geneva – nan manner week of nan good watchmaking world – this is simply a portion that earns its spot successful immoderate superior speech astir finance dressing, conscionable pinch a winding crown alternatively of a clasp.

Maserati has collaborated pinch Bianchet, a Swiss maison based successful Neuchâtel, to create a flying tourbillon watch constricted to conscionable 100 pieces. The number is deliberate: it marks precisely 100 years since nan Maserati Trident emblem first appeared connected a racing car astatine nan Targa Florio successful 1926. That aforesaid awesome now sits astatine nan bosom of nan watch’s open-worked dial – rendered successful skeleton form, suspended, and frankly stunning to look at.

The creation takes its cues from nan Maserati MCPURA, nan brand’s latest supercar and nan benignant of car that makes you extremity stepping erstwhile you spot one. The prismatic AI Aqua Rainbow decorativeness that caused a operation astatine Goodwood past twelvemonth runs crossed nan dial and on nan lawsuit edge, giving nan watch nan aforesaid benignant of shifting, light-catching extent you’d expect from a portion of couture. At conscionable 9.9mm heavy and 36 grams connected nan wrist, it wears pinch astonishing lightness for thing this technically ambitious.

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And it is technically ambitious. The in-house Bianchet UT01 activity – wholly hand-finished, each 225 components of it – is 3.85mm bladed and built to withstand forces of 5,000G. The 60-hour powerfulness reserve intends you tin return it disconnected for nan play and travel backmost to it connected Monday without resetting. The carbon-fibre case, people 5 titanium bridges and vulcanised rubber specifications each speak to a portion designed to beryllium worn, not conscionable admired.

Bianchet builds each watch according to nan principles of nan Golden Ratio, which intends proportionality and beauty are not afterthoughts here, they are structural.

With only 100 ever made, this is nan benignant of portion that appreciates successful much ways than one.

The exclusive watch is disposable successful nan charismatic Bianchet flagship aliases via charismatic distributors. It is besides disposable online via www.bianchet.com. You tin besides interaction Maserati to definitive interest.