Let’s go straight to the point: Audemars Piguet chose its Code 11.59 to house its most complicated wristwatch, the Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4, delivering a bold statement and demonstrating the brand’s incredible technical brilliance. It’s complex yet compact, displays the indications neatly, and is simple to operate. Today, we dive in to describe the timepiece to […]
From the brand with the loudest watch name in history comes an even mightier Spirit of Big Bang model designed by Maxime Plescia-Büchi. Renowned as one of the hippest tattoo artists today, this is his third collaboration with Hublot and one that will not fly under the radar. A confounding juxtaposition of three-dimensional geometric shapes, […]
Despite the fact we’re weeks on from this year’s Watches & Wonders already, there is still plenty of stuff to talk about. Whether it’s simply picking the best new watches of the entire show, or categorizing some of the finest new chronographs, we are far from done yet! And this week’s Buying Guide picks up […]
MONOCHROME and Austrian independent watchmaker HABRING² are proud to announce the completion of a project that is dear to our hearts. The result is the creation of a unique, highly collectable – and to all the parties involved in this project – extremely attractive new watch. A unique edition of the recently-introduced HABRING² Doppel 38, modified to create a follow-up to our Montre de Souscription 1, this one-of-a-kind watch will be offered by Maria and Richard Habring and MONOCHROME, as part of the upcoming Phillips Geneva Watch Auction XVII, with all proceeds of the sale donated to the Save the Children non-government organisation.
Despite the breakthrough in materials, engineering technologies and manufacturing equipment, the new millennium has yet to produce much innovation in mechanical chronograph movement design. Still, upgrades to how chronographs function occasionally impress watchmaking enthusiasts, like the MB&F Sequential EVO or the AgenGraphe by Agenhor. Much to our joy, one of the most beautifully executed attempts […]
In business, some might argue there is no such thing as “No!”. Yvo Staudt, the passionate young man that’s the driving force behind Staudt Chronometrie, likes to think so at least. So what happens if a client wants something Staudt doesn’t offer in its admittedly impressive catalogue of mechanical watches? Does he get told off, […]
The Octo Finissimo collection has been the talk of the town for the past few years at Bulgari, and for many reasons. Finissimo watches broke several thinness records and grabbed public attention and four GPHG prizes, all in a relatively short time. Still, in the segment destined for men, Bulgari offers much more than ultra-thin, […]
Just two weeks after the 2023 edition of Watches & Wonders, we’re still feeling the excitement (and exhaustion) of 9 lengthy days of watches. And this year proved to be a year with a big focus on chronographs, probably (one of) the most popular complications in the entire industry. We’ve seen clever innovation, world’s firsts […]
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Royal Oak Offshore a.k.a. The Beast, and we have already seen several new models launched by the brand from Le Brassus to celebrate the event, like the ROO Chronograph 43mm Black Ceramic and Yellow Gold, or the stunning Black Ceramic Beast. The latest edition of the ROO […]
Louis Moinet, the historical 19th-century watchmaker, has been officially recognised as the creator of the world’s first high-frequency chronograph. Known as the ‘Compteur de Tierces’, this stopwatch – discovered in 2013 – was designed to time the passage of stars and could measure events to 1/60th of a second, complete with start, stop and reset […]