The appetite for vintage timepieces has grown at a rapid pace over the past few years. Collecting vintage watches can be a fantastic hobby but there are pitfalls to avoid. The pre-owned and vintage watch market is a jungle. The quality and authenticity of what you are buying are key. Many watches have endured quite […]
As we explained to you a week ago, weird times call for agility and confinement has forced us to change a bit the way we work and the content we’ll be covering in the coming weeks. Does that mean you won’t see great content on MONOCHROME? Certainly not. In fact, we currently have more time […]
Accessible luxury is one of the most competitive segments in the watch industry. But gauging by the performance metrics of Hamilton watches, Sylvain Dolla’s role as CEO of the company since 2011 has been a success. For 2020, the brand is launching interesting new products: mechanical watches, as you would expect, but also a cool […]
Today, TAG Heuer launches a new Connected watch and we sat down with Frédéric Arnault, TAG Heuer’s Chief Strategy and Digital Officer, to talk about the new Connected Watch. How does it fit in the entire TAG Heuer line-up and what are the possibilities? One thing seems clear, TAG Heuer is able to use its […]
If you’ve followed the watch news in the past weeks, you should be familiar with the fact that the four brands owned by French luxury group LVMH were hosting their own “watch fair” in Dubai, the so-called LVMH Watch Week. Part of the show was devoted to Hublot, the flamboyant brand which is never short […]
If you follow watch industry news on a regular basis, you will have seen that last week the watchmaking division of the LVMH Group – TAG Heuer, Zenith and Hublot – as well as Bvlgari, were hosting their very own watch fair in Dubai, the LVMH Watch Week. We’ve presented most of the novelties to […]
It takes a certain man to wear a tourbillon watch. A tourbillon says: I know what I’m doing. It differentiates you from let’s say the more common watches. But what exactly does it say about a man who decides to make his own? Completely from scratch? Without much useful education? Without CNC machines? Without Switzerland […]
This story is slightly different from what you might expect from MONOCHROME. For example, we won’t mention any movement in the first 1,000 words. But then again, Michiel Holthinrichs isn’t your normal watchmaker. Somewhere close to a canal in the Dutch city of Delft, this man is making watches in a way the big Swiss […]
Giorgia Mondani was a professional tennis player in her teens, becoming one of the best 400 players in the world by age 18. She left that behind at 19 to finish her studies and ultimately interned at Swiss auction house Antiquorum. Her father, Guido Mondani, is a Rolex expert, famed author of Rolex books and […]
For the past 10+ years MONOCHROME has been about new watches and although the focus has pretty much always been on “new” – we always blended in a lot of history, technicalities and finishing – there was sometimes the odd story about a vintage watch. But that’s gonna change. Today we’re starting “The Vintage Corner”, […]