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Daniel Craig to wear an Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial on striped NATO Strap in James Bond 007 Spectre - Monochrome-Watches

You hear that unmistakable?music, you see the twisted barrel of a gun appearing, a man takes place in the middle of it and then comes the brutal sound of a gunshot. Yes, you’re watching at James Bond 007. Ok, even if we’re big fans of the 007 movies here, we’re also watch guys and, for this simple reason, knowing what James Bond will wear in the next episode of his adventures is ...

2015-05-05

All the Generations of the Patek Philippe 5270 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph explained, including the 2015 third generation - Review, specs & price - Monochrome-Watches

The Perpetual Calendar Chronograph is the best interpretation of what defines a Patek Philippe. Like knows how to manufacture divers, Patek has mastered the Chrono with QP for ages and is, without any debate, the best at it. This association of complications?launched?in 1941 with the Ref. 1518 never ended and is still THE hallmark of the Geneva-based old lady (Patek Philippe). Recently we review...

2015-05-04

Introducing the HYT H4 Gotham - Specs and Price - Monochrome Watches

This year, the ultra-modern and innovative watch brand HYT has expanded the collection with the H3 (recently launched during Baselworld 2015), and now HYT come a with a fourth line, which?starts with the HYT H4 Gotham. HYT’s new timepiece is?a?perfect blend of ingredients that were already available and are now merged into this black and red futuristic timepiece. Let’s have a closer lo...

2015-05-04

Introducing the IWC Big Pilot Le Petit Prince in Red Gold - Specs and Price - Monochrome Watches

The end of last year we told you about the limited edition Big Pilot Watch?honouring one of IWC’s?favourite ambassadors, the late Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and his famous character le petit Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and the Petit Prince', feature as IWC limited editions regularly and always, a part of the proceeds go to a good cause. After the steel version, IWC have now come with a ...

2015-04-29

Introducing the IWC Spitfire Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month in STEEL (Specs & Price) - Monochrome-Watches

This year was the year of the Portuguese for IWC, as they introduced several novelties, starting from the Portuguese Annual Calendar to the superb?Portuguese Hand-Wound 8 Days 75th Anniversary Edition. There was also one with quite a complicated movement (yes, that’s a bit?of an understatement), the?IWC Portuguese Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month. It’s this same movement and digit...

2015-04-28

Hands-on with the Jaeger-Lecoultre Master Ultra Thin Moon 39 black dial from SIHH 2015 (specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches

In this hectic moment?that is the month following?Baselworld, we wanted to go back to the SIHH 2015 and to a watch introduced there in all discretion. From Jaeger-LeCoultre, we’ve seen several novelties this year, including the impressive?Master Grande Tradition Grande Complication,?the superb?Duometre Spherotourbillon Moon?or the vintage-inspired?Grande Reverso 1931 Seconde Centrale. Regard...

2015-04-28

Seiko Marinemaster 1000m Emperor Tuna Rose Gold SBDX014 - The 50th Anniversary Celebration Watch - Specs & Price - Monochrome-Watches

50 years… 50 years of innovation, 50 years creating professionally oriented watches, 50 years of immersion in the cold seas all around the world – or just simply being strapped on the wrist of watch enthusiasts.?From the first use of a titanium case for a diver's watch to the invention of the accordion-style strap and the two-layer case to the design of dial markers and hands of unpara...

2015-04-23

Hands-on with the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Extreme LAB 2 - Photos, Specs and Price - Monochrome Watches

Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the original Master Compressor Extreme LAB 2 five years ago, during the SIHH 2010. Shortly after this year’s SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) they introduced a slightly redesigned version with blue hints. It is still one of the most technical sports chronographs on the market and it leaves many of the ‘design’ sports chronographs far b...

2015-04-21

New editions for the Ulysse Nardin Dual Time Manufacture - Monochrome-Watches

Ulysse Nardin is a productive and innovative manufacture, able to create incredible watches such as the newly introduced Ulysse Nardin FreakLab or the Anchor Escapement. Both are however expensive watches totally?focused on R&D. On the other side of the range, there are watches that might show a (visually) simpler technical content but that are however also full of interest. One of them is the...

2015-04-21

Introducing a new IWC Portuguese Automatic Edition BJIFF 2015 with a striking Panda dial - A Future Collectable - Monochrome Watches

Last Friday we told you about the new IWC Ingenieur Automatic Edition Laureus, with a very nice blue dial. Today we can show you yet another limited edition that we just need to tell you about. Why? Well, because of the dial. The new IWC?Portuguese Automatic Edition BJIFF 2015 (which stands for Beijing International Film Festival 2015) has a so-called panda dial and it?looks just so incredibly goo...

2015-04-20

Watches and Charity: the IWC Ingenieur Automatic Edition Laureus Sport for Good Foundation - Monochrome Watches

This is a bit of a personal story. I can’t imagine that it’ll come as a surprise that I have a thing for watches, to be specific, very fine hand-made and hand-finished watches. What might come as a surprise is that I also have a thing for the combination of fine watches and charity. IWC, the brand from Schaffhausen, has a long-term commitment with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation ...

2015-04-17

Patek Philippe Annual Calendar Chronograph Ref. 5905P - hands-on review with live photos, specs & price - Monochrome-Watches

The end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 was?kind of loaded for Patek Philippe. The least we can say is that the manufacture came with lots of novelties. Back in October 2014, the brand was celebrating its 175th anniversary and they came with several superb watches, including the?Multi-Scale Chronograph and the totally mind-blowing GrandMaster Chime. Thus, we could have expect Baselworld 2015 to ...

2015-04-17

Laurent Ferrier Galet Square in stainless steel - Hands-on with live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches

During Baselworld, and afterwards, we heard people call the new Laurent Ferrier Galet Square, a “dress Panerai.” How dare they?! Are we calling every sports watch with a rectangular case a sporty Cartier Tank? Are we nicknaming every square watch a Bell & Ross replica? No. So please, it’s not because a watch is coming with a cushion-shaped case that you can call it a Panerai....

2015-04-16

Introducing the Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200m now with Co-Axial Master Chronometer and in Titanium - live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches

“There are tools and there are jewels or as we call them the desk divers. Some of them though are so important because upon their inception they transformed the way the industry perceived the construction of the proper divers watch.” This is how our?contributor Ilias defined the Omega?Seamaster Ploprof 1200m, a proper tool watch made to be used by professional divers together with bein...

2015-04-14

Hands-on with the Zenith El Primero 410 Triple Calendar and MoonPhase now in blue with price (and cool cufflinks) - Monochrome-Watches

The Zenith El Primero is a very nice watch. There no point of disagreement for us. And when it comes with a triple calendar and a moon phase, displayed in a ‘vintage’ style and legible layout, it become an even better watch. This?timepiece?is called the Zenith El Primero 410 and for Baselworld 2015, it comes in a new limited edition with a cool blue dial (yes, blue is again is very pop...

2015-04-13

Hands-on with the TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 18 Chronograph Telemeter - live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches

Recently, TAG Heuer faced a sort of internal crisis. To be very quick about the story, a new calibre had been introduced last year at Baselworld?with a brand new Carrera watch, then the introduction was?postponed and ultimately cancelled.?The manufacturer faced layoffs, the collection had to be repositioned, the CEO resigned and a new CEO (the well-known Jean-Claude Biver) arrived at the helm of t...

2015-04-13

Expert talk - The Montblanc 2015 Novelties with Anish Bhatt, Watch-Anish - VIDEO - Monochrome-Watches

A few days ago, we already sat down with Suzanne Wong from Revolution Asia to talk about the Montblanc 2015 novelties. Truly, this year was great for the German brand as they came with plenty of new watches for the?SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie). It’s always a pleasure to have the opinion of experts?about the watches that we loved and to hear?another point of view. Today, ...

2015-04-10

Expert talk - The Montblanc 2015 Novelties with Suzanne Wong, Revolution Asia - VIDEO - Monochrome-Watches

Montblanc was without a doubt the most productive brand of the 2015 edition of the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie). This is partially due to the arrival, in 2013, of Jerome Lambert, the new CEO (ex-Jaeger-LeCoultre) who?came with many new ideas to integrate Montblanc’s watchmaking activities and become a?manufacture with serious timekeeping collections. After the interview ...

2015-04-08

Hands-on with the Oris Aquis Date with a gradient blue dial - Specs & price - Monochrome-Watches

Apart from all those crazy, complicated, unaffordable watches, like the 420.000 Euros Breguet Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon or the Arnold & Son Constant Force, Baselworld also offers the chance to go over watches that we (meaning the normal people) can one day expect to have on the wrist, instead of just dreaming in front of it. After coming with a superb vintage-inspired Divers Sixty-F...

2015-04-07

Hands-on with the Ulysse Nardin FreakLab, a concept turned into reality (live photos, specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches

The Freak has always been an important watch, since it was first introduced in 2001. Not only for Ulysse Nardin, but for the entire industry. You may look at it as another impressive and technically advanced watch, with a strange way to display time, however it is so much more than just that. It has to be see as a proper laboratory of research, a watch that, 15 years ago, created a massive break a...

2015-04-03

The new Omega Globemaster fully explained with history, specs, live photos & price (Baselworld 2015) - Monochrome-Watches

Each company has a specific set of values, beliefs and ideas that run at its core. They define its stance and also have an impact on its operations or its products. An ethos is so important because it permits the customer to identify with its products. Brand loyalty is derived from that sole idea. Omega is a company that has a very strong ethos and identity. Many believe, however, that the company...

2015-04-02

Introducing the IWC Portofino Monopusher Edition Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Unique Piece - Monochrome Watches

We’ ve seen many watch brand introducing new timepieces, usually limited edition and some times one-off’s, to highlight their relationship with a car brand, a football club, or, like now, a film festival. What we haven’t seen before is that a brand uses such an introduction to launch an entirely new movement. And that’s exactly what IWC does, now they introduce the ‘p...

2015-03-31

Introducing the Chopard L.U.C XPS in Fairmined Gold - Live photos - Monochrome-Watches

Our industry – watchmaking – can easily be seen as far, very far away from responsible matters. How would this be possible from an industry able to sell 40mm objects at more than 300.000 Euros? In fact, there is an organization that applies sustainable considerations to luxury, both jewelry and horology: Fairmined gold. This standard?performs responsible artisanal and small-scale minin...

2015-03-30

Baselworld 2015 also means another Edition of Schnitzel Dinner - lots of photos - Monochrome Watches

One of my personal highlights of the year is the annual schnitzel dinner, that is always on the Saturday during Baselworld. It’s a gathering of long-time friends and new friends in the watch industry and the idea is simple: schnitzel, beer, a good conversations. This dinner has been the platform for new collaborations, ?friendships and was the place where the Gronefeld’s received their...

2015-03-23

Tudor FastRider Chrono - hands-on with live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches

This year, at Baselworld 2015, Tudor is not only introducing the (our) Tudor Pelagos with a blue dial and the Tudor North Flag, both with the new in-house movement. They also had a chronograph in the vaults, but not one from the Heritage Collection, like the Heritage Chrono Blue. Instead they are coming with a modern, cool and young adults oriented timepiece, the?Tudor FastRider Chrono.The FastRid...

2015-03-20

Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711/1R-001 - Rose Gold Chocolate Dial - Hands-On with Live Photos - Monochrome-Watches

Yesterday, we showed certainly the most surprising watch from Patek Philippe since years, the?Calatrava Pilot Travel Time Ref. 5524. Today, there is another novelty that you might find extremely classical and iconic, a new edition of the Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711. However, try to remember how this watch broke Patek’s codes, back in 1976. It was a total unexpected watch that now is an abso...

2015-03-19

X-perimental: Bell & Ross BR-X1 Skeleton Chronograph Carbon Forge - Monochrome Watches

The breaking of new ground in haute horlogerie is imminent for Bell & Ross. The introduction of the BR-X1, whose name is no doubt a nod back to the Bell X-1 supersonic experimental aircraft, is the first tangible evidence of Bell & Ross' new direction within their family of aeronautical-inspired timepieces. The Parisian brand has some formidable foes in its crosshairs: the Royal Oak and th...

2015-03-19

Baselworld 2015 - Omega Speedmaster 57 Co-Axial revisited with Broad Arrow Hands and new dial - Specs & Price - Monochrome-Watches

The Omega Speedmaster is an icon among the icons. First introduced in 1957 under the reference CK2915, it had been updated several times in its life to now have a slightly different case and dial. However, back in 2013, Omega decided to introduce a re-issue of the very first Speedy, an upgraded edition that was keeping the overall same look with a modern twist and innovative movement. This nice wa...

2015-03-18