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Introducing – Ulysse Nardin Marine Mega Yacht Watch – (Luxury) Ship Ahoy!

For a company that built its name as a purveyor of precision marine chronometers, Ulysse Nardin has a long-standing and authentic link to the sea. Combine this with the brand’s penchant for extravagant complications and showmanship and you get the Marine Mega Yacht, a watch that combines a flying tourbillon, a tide indicator, a moon phase indicator with miniature lifelike recreations of a ship’s features – anchor, chain, propeller, windlass and bow – directly on the dial! With a price tag of just over EUR 300,000, the platinum watch is a limited edition of just 30 pieces.

A Technical Perspective – The Key Features of a Pilot’s Watch

If there is an official standard defining the features for a watch suitable for diving (ISO 6425), no such definition or standard exists (at least one that would be used throughout the industry) for another popular watch category: the pilot’s watch. Each and every brand has its own vision of what a pilot’s watch should […]

Industry News – The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry Reports Growth in 2018 – Downturn in December

The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry (FHS) reports exports up 6.3% at 21.2 billion CHF in 2018, back above the 20 billion Swiss Francs mark. Exports have now climbed for two consecutive years as demand had bounced back in 2017 (19.9 billion CHF, +2.7%), after two years of decline. The performance achieved in 2018 is still inferior to that of 2015.

Interview – Fabienne Lupo, Chairwoman & Managing Director of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, about SIHH

The 29th edition of the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) will soon be throwing its doors open with some 35 brands gearing up to unveil their latest models. The Geneva-based event, which runs between January 14 to 17, is one of the two major watch shows of the year – together with Baselworld. Just as the synchronization of the calendar of both events has been announced, MONOCHROME talks with Fabienne Lupo, Chairwoman & Managing Director of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) about what’s new for SIHH and FHH.

Industry News – SIHH And Baselworld to Coordinate Their Dates From 2020

The rumor was around since some time now, and many were hoping for this to happen, and now it is official. Baselworld and SIHH will coordinate their dates as of 2020. The two major trade shows of the watch industry will synchronize their calendars. The SIHH will be held from 26 to 29 April in Geneva, followed immediately by Baselworld from 30 April to 5 May in Basel. Better yet, the calendars have been synchronised until 2024.

Industry News – Swiss Watch Exports Up Again in October 2018

While September 2018 showed a (slight and isolated) fall in exports of Swiss Watches, the FH – Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry – reports that “industry exports have reverted to the sustained trend reported previously“. With a total of just under Swiss Francs 2 billion (1.987 billion precisely), exports of Swiss Watches were 7.2% […]

Announcing – SalonQP Set to Celebrate 10th Anniversary In Style in 2018

SalonQP is once again getting ready to open its doors in London later this month (22nd – 24th of November). With a new owner at the helm and a revised format planned, it seems the iconic location – London’s Saatchi Gallery – is the only thing set to stay the same this year. Many familiar […]

Announcing – The Watchmaker’s Club is Back in London for Another Year

We’re more than halfway through October, which means it’s nearly November. For watch lovers in London that can only mean one thing. It’s time to start getting excited for the year’s horological highlight: SalonQP. We’ll be bringing you all the details about that show in a separate upcoming article. First though, we wanted to tell you about another, lesser-known but no less interesting event that is taking place a few weeks earlier, on the 7th of November: The Watchmaker’s Club.

Editorial – Caviar Makes an Interesting Addition to your iPhone (Sort Of) – A Skeletonized Watch Movement on your Phone Case

The Omega Point is a theory – not a retail location. It is succinctly postulated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin by the notion “that everything that rises must converge”. Those of us old enough to remember the way that mechanical watchmaking had to pull itself up out of the wreckage of the quartz-age are also […]

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