Dietrich O.Time Watches With Colorful Forged Carbon Bezels

Forged carbon has been “in” for a while, even though the material has been mostly reserved for but the most luxurious(-ly priced) brands. Dietrich is among the small but ever-growing army of very competitively priced brands to embrace this highly durable material and now adds some unique colors to it with the Dietrich O.Time Forged Carbon and its all-black or vividly colorful carbon bezel offerings – with one very cool trick up its sleeve.

8 years ago

Peter Speake-Marin: A True Modern Classic

Before Peter Speake-Marin set a trailblazing path as an independent watchmaker, he was a man oft depended upon by men like Max Busser and Steven Holtzman to get debut watches like the MB&F HM1 and Maitre Du Temp Chapters 1 and 2 off the ground; In over a decade’s worth of watches, the graduate of London’s Hackney Technical College…

8 years ago

REVIEW: IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Vintage Editions – tons of photos, specs and price

When the three new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph models were shown to the watch press for the very first time, Monochrome was there, however we were not allowed to talk about it, nor to photograph the watch. And when we were allowed to cover the new Ingenieur Chronograph models, we only had the official PR photos and no hands-on photos. This type of photos that shows so well how a watch actually looks on the wrist, and that have emerged since there are watch blogs, like ours. So now we had the chance to go hands-on with all three new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph vintage editions and one of it’s ancestors…

8 years ago

The House That Plant Built – 101 Years Of Cartier Mansion History, And The Fate Of The Famous ‘Mansion Pearls’

It’s possible to walk by the Cartier Mansion, on the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, without much of an idea of what it represents. A lot of people undoubtedly do. It’s an impressive building – six stories of marble and granite, completed in 1905, in the neo-Renaissance style. The mansion sits in the shadow of a high-rise skyscraper – Olympic Towers – and in addition to having been the New York home of Cartier since 1917, it’s also one of the last remnants of a long-gone world that exists now only in fragments, along a stretch of Fifth Avenue that used to be home to some of America’s wealthiest and most powerful families.

8 years ago

Breaking News: Phillips to Offer Two Philippe Dufour Simplicities in Hong Kong Sale

A masterpiece of modern watchmaking, with just 200 made – though a couple of extras have emerged in recent years –  the Philippe Dufour Simplicity has never come to market at an international watch auction, until now. Not one, but a pair, of Simplicity wristwatches will go under the hammers at Phillips’ The Hong Kong Watch Auction: Three at […]

8 years ago

Roger Dubuis adds colored stones to the Excalibur Spider Skeleton Flying Tourbillon

What do we know about Roger Dubuis? Well, to make it short, Roger Dubuis is a proper manufacture of Haute Horlogerie, creating extremely refined skeleton movements, and being the only brand to have its entire production stamped with the Hallmark of Geneva (and that alone must already give an indication of the beauty of the production…). Roger Dubuis is also a combination of complex mechanisms with a unique design, bold, sporty and clearly recognizable. Well, all of that can be seen in the latest addition to the catalogue, the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Skeleton Flying Tourbillon, which now receive colored stones incrusted in its rubber bezel.

8 years ago

Glashütte Original Senator Chronometer Watch Review

I’ve been wanting to review the Glashütte Original Senator Chronometer watch since it was debuted back in 2009. Part of the larger Senator watch collection, the Senator Chronometer has a beautiful symmetrical dial design and wonderful feature set that make for an attractive and technically superior timepiece. Pictures alone don’t do the Glashütte Original Senator Chronometer justice because the real appeal here is what it is like to operate the movement.

8 years ago

IN-DEPTH: The Breguet Classique 7147 – taking the dull out of dress watch

The story in a second:

Breguet’s updated Classique 7147 offers traditional style, modern convenience and just the right amount of playfulness.

The Classique 7147 is the definition of a quiet achiever. It’s a simple, sturdy watch that does everything asked of it with style, and it does so with a sense of reserved assurance that only a watch with ‘Breguet’ on the dial can adequately muster.…

8 years ago