Chopard L.U.C GMT One Rose Gold A few weeks ago we visited London for a special presentation by Chopard. Their manufacture line, L.U.C, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For this special occasion the company released two new models; the Chopard L.U.C GMT One and the Chopard L.U.C Time Traveler One. In our previous […]
Innovation is a fine thing, but one of the nice things about mechanical watchmaking is that there are some watches and some movements that have changed very little over a surprisingly long period of time. Conservatism doesn’t necessarily mean timidity, and many smart companies understand very well that giving your clients a direct, tangible relationship with the past is a great way to build a sense of emotional connection to the present (as a matter of fact, Rolex has built an entire business model on the idea of, if not a deliberately glacial product development cycle, at least a keen sense of when something is not broken, and, therefore, not in need of fixing). Watches like the Speedmaster Moonwatch and the Zenith El Primero are in need of no fiddling, and both of those particular watches show just how much longevity a great movement in a great design can really have. In the same class is another, slightly-less-often discussed wristwatch: the Jaeger-LeCoultre Memovox.
Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates 60 years of its alarm watch with the Master Memovox Boutique Edition, a 500-piece limited edition modelled on the 1970s Memovox “Snowdrop”. The Memovox alarm wristwatch is arguably the watchmaker’s best known round wristwatch (the famed Reverso is rectangular). Featuring a vibrating alarm mechanism that sounds like a cricket, the Memovox was introduced in 1956. Despite […]
When the first Apple watch was launched in the previous year, it generated a lot of hype and also a lot of questions.…
Resonance watches are an extremely small sub-set of horology, and with good reason: they are notoriously difficult to manufacture and, just as importantly, to regulate. The idea was perhaps most famously experimented with by the French watch and clockmaker Antide Janvier (1751-1835) and by Breguet, whose resonance watches provided the impetus for those made in the modern era by F. P. Journe. The basic idea is to take advantage of the fact that two oscillators (such as two balance wheels or two pendulums) which have the same natural frequency, and which are somehow mechanically coupled, will start to beat in time with one another. The two oscillators will be more resistant to disruption of their rate together, than apart, and with better rate stability there should be better accuracy.
A breakthrough in Watchmaking: introducing the Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance. Until now, Armin Strom was known for its superb skeletonized watches, mixing haute horlogerie features and sporty design. Today, Armin Strom propels a century old concept, Resonance, well and truly into the 21st century. In an exclusive first look, Monochrome unveils this revolutionary development (yes, simply that…) with technical insights, video and pictures.
Swiss watchmaker Armin Strom really ups their game today with the debut of a new timepiece that is not only the most complicated watch produced by the boutique watchmaker, but also enters it among a small pantheon of great modern watches that are designed with dual resonating balance wheels as part of the mechanism.
First introduced in 2014, the Veshelda is inspired by one of Peter Speake-Marin‘s earliest watches, the Shimoda. Both are characterised by a single, elongated hour hand tells the time to the nearest five minutes. The Veshelda Chinese is the latest in a series of one-handed limited editions, including one containing a drop of the most expensive […]
It is more than time for women to be heard as consumers. It remains a mystery to me as to why the majority of watches aimed at women today are still designed by men!
The inaugural Eve’s Watch Awards has done a great job bringing the spotlight to the female wrist. Please read on to find out who were the big winners at the 2016 edition held at The Shard in London.
Sacha Davidoff Reports On The November 2016 Watch Auctions Back for their fourth Geneva watch auction, Aurel Bacs & Livia Russo in association with Phillips auction house continue to set the bar high. Whenever their watch auctions take place, the entire watch community is buzzing and especially paying very close attention to results. Their Geneva […]