WHO TO FOLLOW: @dmgreen11
From vintage to a one-of-a-kind piece celebrating Springfield’s finest, Darren’s watch collection is top notch. NAME: Darren OCCUPATION: Professor of Law at Northwestern University and Attorney for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs HANDLE: @dmgreen11 FOLLOWERS: 10.7k LOCATION: USA Hi Darren, first question. What’s your daily watch and why? I tend to wear my watches two days at a time, so I don’t really have a consistent daily wear. I do, however, have a couple of go-to watches for travel and other situations where I may be banging around a bit: my ZRC Grands Fonds (the recent re-release) and my Damasko DK11. The ZRC is just about the perfect “homage” diver in my view, and the Damasko packs more technology and innovation in the movement and case than watches costing 10 times the price. And, to my eye, both are flat out killer in the looks category. What are you working on at the moment? I typically split my time each week teaching at Northwestern and working with early stage businesses to help them form, grow, raise money etc. I will be taking a group of law and masters students out to San Francisco shortly to meet with a bevy of venture…
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LIST: The 4 best two-tone watches of 2017
Caveat. Two-tone never truly went away. There’s always been a hardcore for whom the power dressing dream of ‘80s excess never died. And now it looks like they were right all along, as the beguiling combo of precious and plain metals is back with vengeance in 2017. Is it because these watches offer a stronger value proposition in a penny-pinching climate, or maybe because their target market is too young to remember when they were cool the first time around? We’re not sure, and frankly, we don’t really care. We just know they look cool. Tudor Black Bay S&G While two-tone has been lurking in the corners of trend status for a little while now, I suspect the Black Bay S&G will be the watch that pushes it into the mainstream. After all, if it’s good enough for Becks… $5990 Rolex Sky-Dweller It would be impossible to talk two-tone without bringing up Rolex’s Rolesor. This is what Rolex call any watch cased with a mix of steel and precious metal. And while people have been losing it over the steel and white gold Sky-Dweller, we’re pretty into this crisp white dial and yellow gold combo. $21,700 Girard-Perregaux Laureato This Laureato…
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Friday Live: Episode 13 – Jack And Louis On How To Buy Vintage, Automatic Vs. Manual, Watch Books, And A Live Q+A
Jack and Louis talk you through red flags to look for in vintage watches, favorite watch books, and of course, viewer questions.
The Hands of Time – A Guide to Names of the most used Watch Hands
There are many ways to tell the time: digital watches show us the time using numbers, whereas the first mechanical clocks did not even have faces, and indicated time by chiming it. Hourglasses, candle clocks or clepsydras are other examples. And there’s a segment that we here at Monochrome, refer to as ‘Other Display‘, which include the URWERK’s MB&F’s and Ressence’s of this world. Still, most watches use hands on a dial to show us the hours and minutes, and as is their wont, watchmakers have displayed great creativity in the way they shape hands (for practical or more fancy purposes). These come in a variety of styles and are an integral part of a watch design. It would be tough to come up with an exhaustive list, but we’ll take a look at the most used hand designs from watches we have photographed over the past few months.
Bring a Loupe: A Full Set Rolex GMT-Master II Ref. 16760, An IWC Ingenieur Ref. 866, A Square Vacheron Constantin 222, And More
This is your Bring A Loupe for August 4, 2017.
Hands-On – Schwartz-Etienne ‘La Chaux-de-Fonds’ Tourbillon
Presented in 2016, the La Chaux-de-Fonds Tourbillon was named in tribute to the city where the brand was founded in 1902 by Paul Arthur Schwarz and Olga Etienne. After exploring some of their watches (such as the Tourbillon Seconde Retrograde) and the manufacture, we now go hands-on with this dial-side micro-rotor flying tourbillon watch.
VIDEO: Longines and skiing timekeeping, a match made in the mountains a very long time ago…
When you visit the heart and home of Longines, at Saint Imier in the Switzerland’s Jura valley, the brand’s link with skiing is immediately demystified. This is a skiers paradise, and in the early days of the sport’s timekeeping in the 1920s, the Longines watchmakers would not have had to travel far to test their latest custom-built mechanical chronometre. What I also discovered at the Longines museum was that their involvement in sport has spanned more than just equestrian and Alpine skiing related events. The list of innovations in the pursuit of timekeeping precision is impressive and pretty cool to witness firsthand. Today’s focus though, is skiing – and how a simple (but monstrously large) chronograph to time downhill events has evolved into some cutting-edge tech, as explained by Longines President Walter von Känel.
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LIST: Got the car? Get the watch – 3 Hublots for 3 Ferraris
In our experience, if you’re into intricately constructed, high-performance machines, it doesn’t really matter if they’re intended for the road or your wrist. But, as our favourite young Old El Paso advocate asks, “Why don’t we have both?” So with that in mind, we’ve found three Hublots that are the perfect pairing for three of Ferrari’s finest. The LaFerrari Aperta At the very top of Maranello’s pecking order is the mighty LaFerrari, limited to 150 pieces. It’s as much a work of art as it is an engineering marvel, so it’s only fitting to pair it with the equally hardcore and equally limited MP-05 LaFerrari, with a movement inspired by the eponymous car’s V12 engine. A movement that, by the way, packs a whopping 50 days of power reserve. The 488 Spider The 488 Spider is the latest chapter in the brand’s long history of open-topped V8s, drawing from the legacy of their aggressive ‘80s Targa masterpieces while still being entirely contemporary, thanks in no small part to Flavio Manzoni’s aerodynamic design. To honour this fusion of past and future we opted for one of the most exciting Big Bangs of recent years: the Meca-10, with its powerful (and beautiful)…
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FRIDAY WIND DOWN: 4th August, 2017 – the fashion edition
Bear with me this week as I go a little off script. This week’s Wind Down is less about watches and more about all the stuff around them. Fashion. Technology. Business. Fine watchmaking manages to neatly intersect all these areas, informing and being informed by them. On a day-to-day level though, it’s easy to miss the linkages, so this week I’m going to ask a few of the big questions. So settle in, pour yourself a drink, and get ready to ponder. Could the watch industry ever embrace the fake? The prevailing dogma of ‘The Industry’ is that fakes and counterfeiting are anathema to the legitimate watch industry, and should be wiped out like the noxious weeds they are. And rightly so. But still, some of the big luxury brands seem to have recently been taking a more flexible than usual approach to the sanctity of their labels and logos. Don’t believe me? Well, don’t take my word for it, take Mr Porter’s. Though on second thought, perhaps the winds are shifting already? After all, a few years ago who would have imagined Bamford going legit? What happens when fast fashion meets tradition? Fashion is, by definition, fleeting. But these days it seems fleeter…
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