For many years, high-end luxury brands have flirted with courting women as an untapped consumer group of prospective buyers. Two events set to take place in late 2016 underscore this movement: Eve’s Watch Awards and the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.
The Christopher Ward C8 UTC Worldtimer is a distinctive Swiss-powered time zone powerhouse at an accessible price point.
Another unexpected Spot the Watch, which seems to happen to us all the time. We have featured Ellen DeGeneres previously with her love of modern and vintage Rolexes and how she was gifted an Omega Seamaster from Daniel Craig. Today while watching the newest season of her show we noticed another classic…
It’s September, everyone. What that means is we’re all back from from the summer and ready to get down to business. For us here at the shop, it means we’re going to be dropping an even more special group of watches on you than usual – a group that includes some truly connoisseur-level chronographs from Movado, Universal Geneve, and in particular, a downright world-class Omega 33.3. Oh, and one hell of a waterproof Longines Calatrava is coming your way too. Check ’em all out below.
A few weeks ago we published the first part of my personal story with A. Lange & Söhne. To me, this brand has played an important role in the past one-and-a-half decade of watch collecting, learning about mechanical watches and making Monochrome into what it is today. After that memorable weekend back in 2007, there was another memorable weekend. Another weekend that was important for me, and for Monochrome, and again the Lange 1 Timezone had a prominent role.
Three new models have joined the twin time zone Grand Seiko GMT line-up, including an unusually coloured limited edition. All three additions are powered by the top of the line calibre 9S86, an automatic that runs at 36,000 beats per hour. Morning light The limited edition Grand Seiko Hi-Beat 36000 GMT (SBGJ021) draws on the “colours of sunrise on Mount Iwate”, […]
Urwerk is a company known for shaking things up. Funky colors, outlandish displays, and in-your-face finishes are hallmarks present in almost every watch. These are love-em-or-hate-em timekeepers and they don’t try to be anything else. Urwerk’s latest creation is no exception. This is the Time Hunter X-Ray, a skeletonized watch that tracks its own performance.
Urwerk is one of the uber cool watchmakers which we always keep an eye out. The dynamic team of Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei are full of interesting ideas. In 2014, they introduced a world first of a watch which is purely mechanical, and yet sports an electronic monitoring device which allows the owner to check the beat rate of the watch…
The URWERK EMC TimeHunter is not just an impressive face. Like always with this independent manufacture, the design is… different, bold, aggressive, outrageous or futuristic (choose the desired adjectives). The EMC TimeHunter is far more than that, it is simply unique and revolutionary. Based on the self-adjustment of the movement so dear to the brand, this watch added the self-monitring capacity, in a very technical way. This highly-innovative watch receives a facelift and now comes in a skeletonized version, the URWERK EMC TimeHunter X-Ray.
Featuring a fold-away winding crank on the side that you wind to charge a super capacitor, the Urwerk EMC TimeHunter allows you to monitor the watch’s accuracy with a precision monitoring device as well as monitoring balance amplitude. Previous iterations were very cool, but the new Urwerk EMC Time Hunter X-Ray is so named because of its skeletonized dial which affords a look inside its fascinating mechanics.