For close to 100 years, Delma has dedicated its production to sports timepieces and to exploration. Certainly, the watches have evolved and the brand now creates modern, high-performance yet accessible pieces – for instance, the ultra-robust Blue Shark III, which can fathom depths of 4,000 metres. Today, a new watch, based on the Shell Star‘s […]
Bangalore, India isn’t typically associated with watchmaking. Far removed from historical centres in Switzerland and Germany, Bangalore has an interesting watchmaking history of its own. Hindustan Machine Tools Limited (HMT) was a state-owned brand from the 1960s and for decades represented Indian watchmaking. HMT watches were generally the only game in town with a production […]
A new edition of the Monopusher Chronograph in stainless steel with a salmon dial joins Montblanc’s highly successful Heritage family. Inspired by historical Minerva wristwatches from the 1940s and 1950s, the Heritage collection can boast true vintage credentials, not faux ones like so many watches spawned during the ongoing fever for retro. This latest combination […]
Since its very creation, Bell & Ross has focused on military forces and, as its preferred theme, pilots. From the earliest days, when the watches were manufactured by Sinn to the present collections, pilots have been the central focus of the brand’s core collection. But “pilot” is a wide definition. The needs of a jet […]
Unless you have your finger on the pulse of global microbrands, you likely haven’t come across Batavi Amsterdam. The Dutch watchmaker is following up on its inaugural Noordzee dive watches with a more stylized, sophisticated collection. The original pieces housed respectable Miyota movements, but the new line upgrades to Swiss ETA automatics while maintaining accessible […]
NOTSAG is a unique brand for many reasons. The name itself is an anagram of Gaston, the founder’s oldest son with developmental challenges including mitochondrial disease, severe autism and a GABBR2 mutation. Most readers at MONOCHROME are familiar with Only Watch auction, a charity auction held every two years to support research for Duchenne muscular […]
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 […]
A couple of years ago, the “vintage watch of the future” was back. Indeed, a small team had decided to bring the Ikepod back to life, this mysterious brand with a design that most of us can easily recall, founded in 1994 by Oliver Ike and Marc Newson, before it stopped production in 2012 when Newson […]
Hamilton is no stranger to the instrument watch. In fact, the brand owns multiple collections designed to remind its glorious past as one of the major providers of timepieces for military forces and watches for a specific purpose. This is true, for instance, with the military-inspired Khaki Field watches, a tribute to its mid-20thcentury archives (the […]
Minimalistic but detailed, designed with true ergonomics in mind, as precisely built as the cars that share their name with this watch… Porsche Design watches are unique, in the best sense of this word. But they aren’t just an exercise in style; what you get with Porsche Design watches goes well beyond just a pretty […]