First introduced at the 1976 Basel Fair, the Neprosolar returns 50 years after the creation of this avant-garde timeless design, like a return to the future.
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Already being snapped up in a special edition by the famous Bamford London label, the ultimate in personalized watches for crazy collectors and trendsetters around the world, the Neprosolar 2025 is now also available directly from the manufacturer’s website (www.neprowatch.com).
A timeless design meets cutting-edge tech
Retro elegance: authentic, completely loyal to its original 1976 design which remains as contemporary as ever after 50 years, the Neprosolar 2025 has just been wholly reconstructed: the time display and the time control system has been developed together with Dynamic Motion, a La Chaux- de-Fonds company renowned for its mastery of the most advanced electronic technologies and expertise in custom-made developments. As for its photovoltaic microcell and its rechargeable battery, they maximise the solar energy capture and storage performance.
Retrieved from the JSH archives of Baselworld (from 1969), the press release of 1976: three texts in French, English and German, under the black-and-white photo
A son’s homage to a father
This very up-to-date model has its origins in the private and personal pages of a family watchmaking story that began over 50 years ago with Dr. Paolo Spadini, a key figure in the early days of quartz watches and miniature alarm clocks: his son Daniele Spadini, a discreet entrepreneur in watchmaking suppliers for leading names, left no stone unturned to ensure that the resurrection of the Neprosolar 1976 edition could, for one last spark, put a smile on his father’s face just before his final departure. Success!
Right down to the detail of its purely watchmaking finishing touches, the Neprosolar embodies accessible Swiss excellence: the brushed and polished steel of its case and the machined bracelet links, its 3-atmosphere water resistance and its red OLED display in the pure spirit of the 70s make it a truly desirable piece. A timepiece whose memory is unlikely to be erased, thanks to its unique box display, a so looked-like time-capsule that was definitively able to protect this design for almost 50 years and that further illustrates this time journey and back to the future.
A single touch of the right activator illuminates the red OLED display with an hour and minute display that can be set to 12 or 24-hour mode and that indicates seconds with a flashing colon; a second shows the day and month; a third the year; pressing a last time reveals a line of four bright dots, which gradually decrease in length as the energy runs out.
