Today Bvlgari is unveiling its new models during Geneva Watch Days, an event uniting several leading watch brands (16) and the only significant gathering for the Swiss watch community in 2020 that has not been cancelled due to the pandemic. Among the novelties is the 2020 Bvlgari Aluminium Watch collection, a contemporary sports watch with […]
It has become something of a ritual. Year after year, Bvlgari continues its streak of record-breaking ultra-thin watches. With the release of the Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Chronograph Skeleton Automatic, the brand accumulates its sixth world record in six years. But it would be reductive to think that the Octo Finissimo is just a story […]
It has been quite a while since we’ve heard from independent German watchmaker, Bernhard Lederer. One of the first members of the AHCI (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants), Lederer established a reputation with several disruptive horological concepts. In 2002, he launched the brand BLU (Bernhard Lederer et son Univers). Now based in Saint-Blaise, on the […]
This year, independent watchmaker De Bethune is celebrating the 10th anniversary of what’s probably its most recognizable watch, the DB28. The jubilee began with the introduction, earlier this year, of the DB28XP Collection (XP for extra-plate), with three stunning new models. Now, as part of the new models launched during the Geneva Watch Days, the […]
Ulysse Nardin unveils an even more radical take on its Skeleton Tourbillon with its latest Blast models. Today, during the Geneva Watch Days event, the brand releases four new supercharged Blast models with edgier, sharper cases meant to emulate the lines of stealth aircraft and a double X traversing the skeletonised dials. The latest arrivals […]
With the Geneva Watch Days fast approaching, brands are pre-releasing selected models to whet our appetite. Among them, Czapek has unveiled a cool monochromatic, blacked-out version of its most luxurious model, its bold and contemporary tourbillon watch. Meet the Place Vendôme Tourbillon Dark Matter. The Czapek Place Vendôme Tourbillon was unveiled in 2017 with two […]
With its unusual vision combining art, mechanical watchmaking and fluid technology, HYT creates watches like no other, portraying time with liquids flowing through an ultra-fine capillary. Presented last fall, the HYT H5 is a key evolutionary step for the brand. Based on three-dimensionality and transparency, its intriguing design language and functionality rely on an innovative, […]
Watch collaborations thrive. More and more partnerships among the watch industry are forming as brands want to tie up with those that share similar values and have complementary expertise. The most recent example of this trend has brought together Schwarz Etienne and Kari Voutilainen, which together create an elegant time-only watch. Meet the Schwarz Etienne […]
Something new will soon be launching on Kickstarter, something with a fresh face and its own identity. Kickstarter campaigns to fund watches sometimes feel like a-dime-a-dozen and it is tricky to sort through all that is on offer. As you might know, team-MONOCHROME is rather critical of what we cover from crowdfunded watch projects as […]
The Frederique Constant Flyback Chronograph Manufacture got a lot of attention when it appeared in 2017. Not only did it integrate a manufacture calibre with a flyback module developed by the brand, but its price tag of just under EUR 4,000 also blew competitors out of the water. For 2020, Frederique Constant launches two new […]