Vacheron Constantin Adds Gray Dégradé Dials to Fiftysix Steel Watches
Vacheron Constantin has added two 40mm stainless steel watches to its Fiftysix collection: a Self-Winding model with a date display and a Complete Calendar. Both use gray dégradé dials in a tuxedo layout, with updated case finishing and in-house decorated movements.
Vacheron Constantin has introduced two new stainless steel watches in its Fiftysix collection: a 40mm Self-Winding model with a date display and a 40mm Complete Calendar. Both carry new gray dégradé dials for 2026.
The Complete Calendar shows the day, month, moonphase and a pointer date. The Self-Winding keeps to time and date.
Gray dials with a tuxedo layout
The dials use contrasting sectors that Vacheron Constantin says evoke the tones of vintage film cameras and hi-fi equipment. The layout is often called a tuxedo dial.
On the Self-Winding, the outer minute track is silvery with fine concentric graining. The hour sector inside it is a darker gray sunburst. Applied 18K white gold Arabic numerals mark the even hours, and lumed baton indexes mark the odd ones.
The date sits at 3 o'clock, bridging two sectors within a white band. The center has an opaline gray dégradé finish. The hands are 18K white gold with blue Super-LumiNova, a glow material that helps low-light reading.
The Complete Calendar reverses the color scheme. The darker gray center holds the calendar displays, with day and month in rectangular apertures on the upper half. An 18K white gold moon on a black sky sits on the lower half.
A white minute track and a light gray sunburst hour sector surround the center. The outer edge carries a black pointer-date track with white numerals.
Case and movements
Earlier Fiftysix models favored fully polished surfaces. The new watches add contrast, with vertically brushed lugs, polished bevels, a polished bezel and horizontally brushed case flanks.
The Self-Winding runs on caliber 1326, visible through a sapphire display back. It was developed by ValFleurier, a fellow Richemont manufacturer, and finished by Vacheron Constantin. Decoration includes Geneva stripes, perlage and snailing, plus a skeletonized 22K pink gold rotor shaped around the Maltese cross.
The Complete Calendar uses the manufacture caliber 2460 QCL/1. It has a 40-hour power reserve and carries the Poinçon de Genève, also known as the Geneva Seal.
Fiftysix background
Vacheron Constantin first launched the Fiftysix in 2018. It cites the 1956 reference 6073 as its inspiration, a watch that introduced lugs drawn from the brand's Maltese cross emblem and a boxed crystal profile.
The complete calendar, often called a triple calendar, has been one of the brand's signature complications since the 1940s.
