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Christopher Ward's Trident 30x30 is a teal diver with 30 pounds a watch going to Blue Marine

Five hundred pieces in teal and coral red, with thirty pounds from every watch going to Blue Marine.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 3 min read · 7 August 2026

Parrotfish make sand. They spend their days scraping algae off coral so the reef keeps growing, then grind up the dead bits and pass them out as white sand, which is why a fair chunk of any tropical beach has been through a fish at some point. Blue Marine Foundation reckons they're essential to a healthy reef. Christopher Ward has built a watch in their colours.

It's the Trident 30×30, capped at 500 pieces and named after Blue Marine's 30×30 Ocean Action Plan, the push to protect 30 percent of the world's water by 2030. Christopher Ward calls it the third watch the two have made together. Time+Tide counts four.

Teal, coral red, and a correction

A few outlets have run with parrot fish blue for the dial. Christopher Ward's own listing says teal, paired with a coral red seconds hand, because the fish wears both colours at once. The scheme comes from #FishForTomorrow, a campaign Blue Marine ran with The Maldives Resilient Reef.

The wave texture across the dial is called Aeolian, and it isn't used on anything else. "This pattern is bespoke, and designed only for this watch," says designer Matthew Sweatman. Indices and hands are deep-filled with Super-LumiNova Grade X1 BL C1. A teal dial with one red hand on it either lands straight away or it doesn't, and this one lands.

Last year's Reef case, 11.45mm of it

The case is the four-piece 41mm design Christopher Ward brought in on last year's Trident Reef, built so they can mix finishes and shades inside a single case. It's 316L steel and aluminium, 11.45mm tall, 47.90mm lug to lug, good for 200 metres, with a screw-down crown, anti-reflective sapphire and a unidirectional countdown bezel on a matte aluminium insert. The closed back is stamped with the 30×30 logo over a three-dimensional wave.

That 11.45mm is the number I'd look at first, because it's why a Trident wears better than its spec sheet suggests.

Inside is the Sellita SW200-2 Power+, 26 jewels, 28,800 vph, 65 hours of running, rated at minus five to plus twelve seconds a day. Christopher Ward puts the gain over a standard SW200 down to an optimised gear train, a redesigned barrel and mainspring, a reworked winding system and an updated balance. The rotor is skeletonised and sandblasted underneath, linear-brushed up top, with concentric circular brushing on the weight. None of which you'll ever see, because the back's solid.

Thirty pounds a watch, and the 2 percent underneath it

Australian buyers are looking at A$1,650 on the Aquaflex rubber strap or A$1,950 on the Bader bracelet, both open for pre-order on Christopher Ward's own site. UK pricing is £895 and £1,060.

Thirty pounds from every sale goes to Blue Marine, so £15,000 across the run, a bit over three percent of the rubber-strap price. The commitment I rate more is the 2 percent of all Trident revenue Christopher Ward has handed over since 2019, because that one's never needed a limited edition bolted to it. Time+Tide puts the total raised across the partnership at £750,000.

Deliveries are due mid October. The watch ships in a sleeve made from Notpla seaweed paper, and the movement carries a 60-month guarantee.