Chronograph Service A few months ago, I visited a watchmaker and followed every step he did on servicing this vintage Valjoux 22 chronograph. Not only out of interest, but also to get an idea of all that work a watchmaker does to keep our watches ticking. As a showcase and to create a bit more […]
Cartier introduced its very special Rotonde de Cartier Earth and Moon Tourbillon watch in 2014. And earlier this year, we managed to get up close and personal with the latest pink gold version of the watch.
In a move that was expected for some time, Jean-Claude Biver (pictured above) will take the reins of Zenith as interim chief executive, replacing Aldo Magada, according to Swiss business magazine Bilanz. Best known for the high frequency El Primero chronograph, Zenith is the last of the LVMH watch triumvirate that Biver has yet to work […]
Continuing with our series of Team Picks, it’s Andy Green who has the reins today, wrangling the three gems he enjoyed reading most on T+T in 2016. HANDS-ON: Size does matter, the 2016 IWC Big Pilot Edition “Le Petit Prince” BY: Felix Scholz PUBLISHED: May “The title alone had me. Also, Felix pretending to know cars is always funny. But seriously, I absolutely love this watch. I’m a sucker for a blue dial, which the photographer, Jason Reekie, captured beautifully here. And regardless of all that, this is my favourite of IWC’s Big Pilot offering.” INSIGHT: Inside the new Melbourne Rolex Service Centre BY: Felix Scholz PUBLISHED: February “Knowing a couple of the guys at the RSC, it’s cool to get an inside look because the place is a little bit secretive, and most people know very little about it. But ask any reputable vintage dealer and they’ll tell you that Melbourne has one of the best RSCs in the world, and is often trusted with Milsubs and Paul Newman Daytonas – so it’s cool to learn more about what goes on there.” HANDS ON: First look at the Tudor Pelagos LHD – live video, pics, price BY: Felix Scholz PUBLISHED: November “This was classic Tudor, saving the best till…
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One of the biggest surprises for me coming out of Baselworld 2016 came from Rado. I’ve always admired the brand’s devotion to minimalism and interesting ceramic constructions, but the more horologically-focused part of my brain is usually less excited by Rado’s offerings. However, the HyperChrome Ultra Light had me from the moment I first picked it up. The watch has all of Rado’s restrained styling, rendered in a new matte ceramic and titanium, resulting in a ticker that’s just 56 grams. Yeah, Rado isn’t kidding with that name.
It’s not just the Đông Sơn drum theme of these two quite different collector’s items by watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin and pen maker Grayson Tighe that caught my eye: it was more than that, it was the actual pieces themselves inspired by the indigenous people of the Red River Delta of Vietnam.
What a beautiful theme to decorate such rare and interesting objects with.
If there’s one thing watch brands love above all else, it’s an anniversary. Celebrating important milestones for renowned products is a sure way of reconnecting the public with a manufacture’s storied past without taking too many commercial risks. In fact, watchmakers are so excited about 2017’s anniversaries that some got the ball rolling in Q4 of 2016, such as with Piaget’s 60th anniversary Altiplano collection. But you can bet that’s just the first of many commemorative pieces we’re going to see. While I’m sure we’ll see more obscure watches come out of the woodwork to celebrate birthdays over the coming weeks and months, here we have eight seriously important models hitting nice round numbers. These are the anniversaries you truly don’t want to forget.
The Gravity Alpha GT-124 Watch is designed with the cosmos as an inspiration, using two moving disc plates placed over each other and balanced to create a moving kaleidoscopic effect. Let’s take a closer look.
What if… What if I could imagine and create my dream watch, the timepiece I always dreamed of, the watch that does not exist and that I’d love to own one day. Well, if you read Monochrome on a regular basis, you already know that we’re not shy when it comes to making predictions and using Photoshop to imagine potential Rolex watches (don’t worry, we will be doing it again for Baselworld 2017…). Today though we have something a bit different. I’ve been playing around with Photoshop again but not to create a potential Rolex, but rather to imagine my dream watch, a watch that I’m pretty sure will never exist but that haunts my nights. For me, it is the A. Lange & Söhne Datograph, the ultimate chronograph by my standards and a watch that I’ve dreamed about seeing in stainless steel… What if?
For more than 2,000 years, timekeepers have appeared in art. An ancient Roman mosaic depicting Plato’s Academy shows a pedestal-mounted sundial, a 1285 manuscript illuminates a water clock, several sixteenth century Renaissance portraits by Titian feature small gilt mechanical table clocks, American folk and genre painters include shelf, banjo, and tall clocks in their domestic scenes, Marc Chagall often depicts a German wall clock from his Eastern European boyhood home, and Jamie Wyeth’s 1994 view on Monhegan Island has his teenage model Orca Bates posed next to a stately grandfather clock.