A day after Phillips’ thematic Rolex sale that peaked midway with the record setting Rolex ref. 8171 “Padellone”, the auctioneer just concluded The Hong Kong Watch Auction: Three. This time the sequence of events was inverted: momentum built up haltingly, with several modern complications, including a Lange Tourbograph, passing with no interest. Fortunately the action picked up in […]
The new H. Moser & Cie. Venturer Tourbillon Dual Time Sapphire Blue Skeleton watch is a stunning take on the original from 2015 and features a breathtaking blued skeletonized movement.
While Phillips and Christie’s offered some superb vintage and modern watches this week in Hong Kong, I would say that many collectors were most rapt with attention over the first three Philippe Dufour Simplicitys that were on offer. I think many had expectations of what they would bring – with estimates ranging from roughly $100,000 to $180,000 for the three watches. The results? Quite a bit stronger.
When we gave away the first IWC Wall Clock, Monochrome’s managing editor Brice Goulard was enjoying a well-deserved vacation. Today he’s on his way to Miami to join the TAG Heuer team at Art Basel in Miami. However back on topic… we’re giving away a second IWC wall clock! The first give-away was already hugely …
Yesterday Christie’s sold a Philippe Dufour Simplicity, a 37mm in white gold, for HK$1.98m, or about US$256,000, all fees included. Today Phillips just accomplished the same for its pink gold 37mm specimen that sold for HK$2m, about US$258,000. Moments later a white gold 34mm Simplicity in the same Phillips sale sold moments later for HK$1.75m, or […]
You could spend weeks traveling through Switzerland today without seeing a single rose engine lathe – the complex machine used for centuries to produce the intricate patterns of the art known as guilloché. But, then, come to the Vallée de Joux, and you’ll find more than a dozen in a single room at the Breguet manufacture. Behind each one, a specialist guillocheur spends his or her day hand-decorating the company’s gold dials, using the very technique developed by Abraham-Louis Breguet himself at the end of the 18th century.
When the Schuefele family took over Chopard in 1963, it is likely that founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard would have been delighted with the continuation of family values and focus on humanity, a spirit he himself instigated when he founded Chopard LUC (Editor’s note: modern name used for clarity) in 1860.…
Earlier this year we already introduced the stainless steel Ulysse Nardin Classico Manufacture with enamel dial, and we loved it, however we have not yet shown its sister (yes, a watch is female: la montre), the Classico Manufacture with blue sun-ray dial. The other day we were able to look more closely at this incredibly beautiful looking dress watch that has one downside: the dial is so appealing that people want to see your watch more closely all the time.
By Roberta Naas
There are a host of wonderful trends in luxury watchmaking today, with some focusing on the technical side and others focusing on the aesthetic side. Additionally, there are some that bring these two realms together in artful majesty — offering artistic, technically advanced masterpieces on the wrist. Often those masterpieces emulate nature — flora,
Our interest was piqued by the idea that Cartier wanted to release the classic Santos 100 in ADLC, and now we have had a chance to spend some time with the Santos 100 Carbon. The result? A classy, sleek, yet sportier alternative to the average Cartier.