Denis Flageollet, the mastermind behind De Bethune is, without doubt, one of the most talented watchmakers of the industry. His creations have placed the brand outside mainstream watchmaking, in a class of its own. De Bethune watches stand out with their technological singularity as well as their space-age design. And the new De Bethune Maestri’Art […]
When it was introduced in 2011, the Annual Calendar Regulator 5235G raised some eyebrows among Patek Philippe’s more conservative collectors. Associated with elegant, 3-hand dress watches, the Calatrava suddenly appeared with a complication and a most unusual dial inspired by historic regulator clocks – a first for a Patek Philippe wristwatch. But there were more surprises, […]
Classic, traditional, restrained… Those are not words you would associate with watches manufactured by HYT. Not only does the display itself, based on a fluidic indication of the time, make a statement, but the design, the style, the size… Everything about these watches is meant to be futuristic. The watches are bold but also artistic […]
Today, MONOCHROME’s technical editor Xavier Markl is in Saignelégier, Switzerland, with Maurice Lacroix. With its “Masterpiece” collection, Maurice Lacroix unveiled several watches with unconventional displays of the time. Think about the surprising Roue Carrée watch, with its small seconds actuated by a square wheel, or the Mysterious Seconds watch, with its floating, non-mechanically linked seconds […]
HYT watches was born from an ambitious vision combining science, art and philosophy: portraying time with liquids. Because our perception of time is fluid, HYT decided to represent time flowing like a river. To achieve this, the brand imagined a high-tech micro-fluidic module driven by a mechanical movement. The idea is to use two immiscible […]
It is not entirely new to see Saxon brand Glashütte Original launching more and more original watches. Previously rather classic and Teutonic in design, the brand explores new themes and new colours with recent collections. Even the most traditional watches, such as PanoMaticLunar, get more colourful editions, such as the recently presented rose gold with […]
Chronoswiss and regulators are synonymous these days. The company was the first to introduce this style on production wristwatches back in 1987 and has built a brand identity around it. That’s not to say that three-hand and chronograph pieces don’t exist (they’re alive and well in the Sirius and Timemaster collections), but regulators have become […]
Usually, professional football players show a preference for a handful of watch brands. They are usually spotted with mainstream brands like Audemars Piguet, Hublot, Patek Philippe, Richard Mille or Rolex. I have observed a couple of players with timepieces from A. Lange & Söhne and Patek, and also watches from independent brand Urwerk. This leads […]
The new Audemars Piguet Millenary Frosted Gold Philosophique challenges the conventional way of reading time with just one hand for the hours and minutes. Clearly not a watch for people obsessed with chronometer-grade precision, time is meant to be read approximately, give or take a few minutes here and there. Original and bristling with unusual […]
The abbreviation MIH probably doesn’t mean much to most of our readers, except to the hard-core watch enthusiasts (or WIS, which stands for Watch Idiot Savant – another horologocal abbreviation) immediately recognize it. MIH stands for Musee International d’Horlogerie and during the time that mr. Ludwig Oechslin was curator of the museum, he introduced the MIH Watch. Portion of the proceed go to the museum and fund special restoration projects. And now there’s a new MIH Watch called the MIH Gaïa Watch.