In line with the trend of improving client service, Jaeger-LeCoultre just announced that the brand will offer an 8-year warranty on all watches for clients enrolling in their new care program. In addition to this extended warranty, the program will deploy a dedicated digital platform, personalized with value-added information, advice and services. To benefit from […]
Lisa Jones succeeds Larry Pettinelli as head of the Henri Stern Watch Agency.
One serious watch that celebrates three significant anniversaries for the upstart Swiss brand.
After Oris introduced the Bronze Carl Brashear Chronograph earlier in 2018, and after the brand announced teaming up with Swiss retailer Bucherer to created a new episode of the “Blue Editions”, we knew that the standard version of the Divers Sixty Five Chronograph was about to come. So end of the teasing: here is the […]
The CEO of George Cleverley shoes shares his lifelong love of watches and how he ended up taking over (and loving) the family business.
If you are a regular reader of MONOCHROME, you will be familiar with the Favre-Leuba Bivouac 9000. Inspired by a model from the 1960s, the Bivouac is a beast of a tool watch, standing out as being the only mechanical wristwatch capable of displaying the altitude from 0 to 9,000m – for more information, read […]
There’s no denying that the “luxury sports watch” segment is, by quite a margin, currently producing some of the hottest watches on the market. The demand for such pieces simply surpasses production. For this reason, we see more and more brands entering this market (and there will be more), some foreseeable, some less – Maurice […]
When it comes to watchmaking, it’s no stretch of a hairspring to say that Michel Navas has done it all. He was a key figure at Gérald Genta in the high complications team in the boom times of the ’90s. He also worked at Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet. At Franck Muller, he masterminded the implementation of a complication based on the personality of its creator, from concept to the wrist — the ‘Crazy Hours’. The luminous brilliance of this invention, which sees the hour hand jump capriciously (and just about instantaneously) around the dial to the non-sequential numbers, is undimmed by time. Even after decades, the changing of the hour on a Franck Muller Crazy Hours watch makes me blink in surprise, every single time. While few would contest Muller’s brilliance, his frenetic, unpredictable process was just as legend – Navas is credited with translating this into a mechanical tribute that has become the singular Franck Muller watch. The icon for the brand. But, in conversation with his friend and soon to be lifetime business partner Enrico Barbasini, Navas concluded: “Between us, we had more ideas than the big brands needed.” So, in 2004, the pair broke away to form…
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Last year we made our foray into the inky world of print with NOW – The Watch Buying Guide. A weighty tome that, in addition to shining a light on some interesting horological tales and factoids, also lived up to its promise — putting more than 200 of the best recent watch releases into one handy, almost encyclopaedic place. It had quite the ring as a proposition: 200 watches from $200 to more than $200,000, though that part was quite accidental. Regardless, it was a happy accident for buyers frustrated by the obfuscation around pricing that we all endure from the brands. From Swatch to Cartier’s Santos, from A. Lange & Söhne to Zenith. There’s something in there for everyone. As long as your definition of everyone is — people who appreciate fine watchmaking. And even if that’s not the case, flipping through the pages of NOW should convince even the most ardent Apple Watch wearers. But if you weren’t prepared to get physical with us, our options to get together over NOW proved limited. Up until last week, NOW was only available as an actual object in our shop (there are a mere 300-odd out of the original print run remaining if…
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The substantial and subtly blue IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Edition “Laureus Sport for Good” is the 13th (unlucky for some, but clearly not IWC) edition watch celebrating the Schaffhausen-based brand’s partnership with the Laureus Sport for Good, which leverages the power of sport to end violence, discrimination and disadvantage. It’s a cause as worthy as the watch is good-looking. The Aquatimer Chronograph is a large, sporty timepiece. It’s 45mm of pure grunt — aggressive case architecture and lots of clever tech: the internal bezel that you operate by turning the external one, the flyback chronograph movement and a case that’s been coated in black rubber, for an under-the-radar look that really stands out. And then, of course, there’s the blue. Subtle, dark and inky like the deep waters it’s been designed to conquer, while there’s still a flash of light visible, thanks to the starburst finish. The colour is well-matched thanks to the textured rubber strap, which is comfortable, and far more stylish than a rubber strap has any right to be. The caseback is engraved with a charming illustration with the theme of ‘Time to Learn’, of children, happily gambolling around — the work of a young Sri Lankan boy named…
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