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Introducing: Bucherer Releases 3 High-End Exclusive Watches from Chopard, Girard-Perregaux and Ulysse Nardin

Bucherer, one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed watch retailers, now owned by , has long been a leader in the industry, and for a few years, offers its customers exclusive access to limited-edition timepieces created in collaboration with renowned partner brands. For years, collectors and enthusiasts have enjoyed unique adaptations of existing models, often distinguished by signature ...

2025-02-10

Buying Guide: Six Captivatingly Cool Perpetual Calendar Watches

Often capturing the minds and hearts of collectors with their complex mechanism, perpetual calendars are amongst the most laureled complications around. In many cases, the array of calendar indications is displayed in a rather classical style. But not with these ones, as we take a look at some of the coolest QP watches in recent times. Each one of these mechanical marvels stands out thanks to an u...

2025-02-09

The Petrolhead Corner: The Renault Filante Record 2025

Chasing land speed records might seem futile and pointless to most, but there’s a genuine upside to mankind’s thrive for ever more, ever better, ever faster. Of course, it can come at a cost, either financial or physical, but at some point down the line, we can benefit from the innovations and developments needed to break new ground. Without this hunger, a lot of things we now take for...

2025-02-08

In-Depth: The History of the IWC Ingenieur Collection

The IWC Ingenieur collection has long been one of the pillars of the Schaffhausen-based brand's reputation, even if the spotlight often seems to shine brighter on the emblematic Pilot series.?In recent years, IWC collections like the?Pilot,?Portugieser,?Portofino, and, to a lesser extent, the?Aquatimer?have steadily introduced new references, leaving the Ingenieur line seemingly in the shadows.?Fo...

2025-02-07

Introducing: Zenith x Revolution Chronomaster Revival A3818 Cover Girl Carbon

Back in 2020, watch magazine Revolution introduced its first limited edition Zenith Chronomaster Revival, a watch with a bold dial layout inspired by a 1971 version of the legendary El Primero nicknamed the A3818 “Cover Girl”.?This first edition was made in steel and was followed in 2022 by?the Chronomaster Revival A3818 “Airweight Cover Girl” in titanium. Now, in order to ...

2025-02-07

First Look: The Rado DiaStar Original x Tej Chauhan Special Edition

Rado watches stand out with their use of modern materials and the originality of their design. The brand collaborates on a regular basis with international designers. Among the countless initiatives in this field, in 2021, British industrial designer Tej Chauhan applied his creative vision to the True Square with a bold yellow take on the collection inspired by futuristic visions of pop culture. T...

2025-02-07

Hands-On: The Ice-Blue Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph

When it comes to 1970s-inspired elegant sports watches, those equipped with a shaped case and an integrated bracelet, most people tend to look back at 1972 and the Royal Oak, before quickly jumping to 1976 with the Nautilus and the Ingenieur, and then 1977 with the 222. Yet, we have to keep in mind that one of the earliest representatives of the genre was Girard-Perregaux, which released its take ...

2025-02-06

Introducing: The new Green Credor Locomotive GCCR997 Joins the Permanent Collection

Last year, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Credor – the high-end, most classical brand owned by the Seiko Corporation – unveiled a very special watch based on the Locomotive concept and being a faithful recreation of Gerald Genta‘s original 1978 sketch. While Genta is best known for designing the iconic Royal Oak, Nautilus, and Ingenieur, his creative vision extended far beyon...

2025-02-05

First Look: The New Omega Seamaster 37mm Milano Cortina 2026

In almost exactly one year’s time, the Olympic flame will once again be ignited, marking the start of yet another edition of the greatest sporting event in modern history. The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will commence on February 6th next year and will welcome athletes from around the globe to Milano, Cortina and five other locations in Italy. As the Olympic’s long-running time...

2025-02-05

Van Cleef & Arpels' Stephanie Rault Explains The Brand's Approach To Watchmaking

Each year, during the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve (or in short, the GPHG), one brand always stands out because it wins so many awards: Van Cleef & Arpels. It might not have been the name you expected; however, if you look at the sheer number of awards it has won over the years, it is more than impressive (three in the 2024 GPHG alone). While we have scarcely covered the typical hig...

2025-02-05

First Look: The new Piaget Polo Flying Tourbillon Moonphase

Piaget's luxury sports watch, the Polo, is inspired by the brand’s iconic solid gold 1979 Polo quartz model with horizontal gadroons running across the dial and the integrated bracelet. Revamped from head to toe in 2016 in steel with mechanical movements, the Polo family is represented by complications small and large, from time and date all the way up to chronographs, ultra-thin perpetual c...

2025-02-04

Introducing: The Hamilton Chrono-Matic 50 Auto Chrono Limited Edition, now in Blue

Hamilton's US chapter is marked by its legendary field watches for the US Army, interpreted in the popular Khaki line, and its impressive amount of Hollywood screen debuts. On the horological front, perhaps the most exciting moment in Hamilton's history took place in Switzerland, where it participated in the race to develop the world’s first automatic chronograph movement – known as th...

2025-02-03

Buying Guide: Shopping For Chronographs With EUR 2,500 In The Pocket

Every week, we look at countless watches to feature in our Buying Guide, narrowing them down based on a common theme such as colour, material, complication or case shape. Scouting what fits within our selected topic at hand sometimes reveals surprising trends, and this time, we reached an eye-opening conclusion. In the field of relatively attainable mechanical chronographs, both manual and automat...

2025-02-02

Hands-On: The new Citizen Mechanical Day/Date NY4058 is a Perfect Example of a Gateway Mechanical Watch

When you read magazines like MONOCHROME, stepping into the (absolutely fascinating) world of mechanical watchmaking can be frightening. Not only can these watches be hard to understand, filled with complications and complex mechanical devices, but the prices at which most luxury watches are offered generate a “glass ceiling” effect that’s hard to break. There is what we call acce...

2025-01-31

First Look: The New 39mm PVD-Gold Edition of the Rado Captain Cook Over-Pole

The cool Rado Captain Cook Over-Pole is back! Dating back to models from the 1960s, this evocative name was used for several Rado models, in particular, travel watches with a world time bezel – while the Captain Cook name immediately refers to the brand’s vintage-inspired dive watches. The Over-Pole came back in 2022 as a steel limited edition and part of the Captain Cook collection. F...

2025-01-31

Industry News: Swatch Group Revenues and Profit Down in 2024

It’s the time of year when businesses announce their financial performance. Following Richemont and LVMH, Swatch Group has just released its 2024 results. In a challenging environment for the watch industry, the sales of Swatch Group – the Swiss powerhouse and owner of Omega, Longines or Tissot – were CHF 6,735 million, down 12.2% at constant exchange rates and 14.6% at current r...

2025-01-30

Introducing: Compact and Colourful Versions of the Rado Diastar

Born in 1962, the Rado Diastar marked the brand's incursion into the exciting territory of innovative materials. Combining carbide tungsten, hard metal and faceted sapphire crystal with a retro-futuristic case, the Diastar was the first step in Rado’s journey into the world of high-tech ceramics and other exciting materials. Celebrating its 60th birthday in 2022, the Diastar appeared in a sh...

2025-01-30

Video Review: A Closer Look at the Blue Dial IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40

Let’s get up close and personal… We have already explored the revamped IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40 in detail when it was launched in 2023, the same year that the Schaffhausen-based brand decided to give this long-lasting collection its 1976 Genta-inspired design back. More recently, what is now a strong contender in the luxury sports watch category (also known as an elegant sports watch...

2025-01-29

Introducing: Panerai Radiomir 8 Giorni Eilean Experience Edition PAM01643

Panerai's watches were born with saltwater in their veins. Designed for Italian Navy frogmen on the eve of WWII, Panerai's rugged Radiomir not only timed their secret underwater missions and detonations, but its luminous radioactive radium-based paste lit up the murky depths. Panerai has always cultivated strong ties to all things nautical, including the purchase of the Eilean, a beautiful 1936 Be...

2025-01-29

First Look: The new David Candaux DC6 Titanium, When Tradition meets Modernity

Late last year, we reviewed the latest edition of David Candaux DC1, crafted in titanium. A few months earlier, we had the pleasure of sharing an interview with the talented independent watchmaker from Le Solliat in Vallee de Joux, who has earned a reputation for his exceptional craft, having contributed to the creation of ultra-complicated timepieces during his work at Jaeger-LeCoultre and later ...

2025-01-28

Industry News: Moderate Growth for LVMH in 2024 in a Challenging Environment, Watches barely Impacted

In the context of a global decline of the luxury goods demand, LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods group, reported revenues of EUR 84.7 billion for 2024, +1% on an organic basis, after a record performance in 2023. In the fourth quarter, organic revenue growth came to 1%, accelerating with respect to the third quarter. Profit from recurring operations came to EUR 19.6 billion down 14% versus 20...

2025-01-28

First Look: The Punchy Pink Louis Erard Regulator x Sylvie Fleury

Under Manuel Emch's capable and creative leadership, Louis Erard has evolved from relative obscurity to become an exciting player on the watch scene, offering original timepieces by contemporary artists, designers and watchmakers. However, what makes Louis Erard's doubly attractive is the combination of original content with accessible prices. The notion that a handcrafted Grand Feu enamel dial is...

2025-01-28

Introducing: Mike Horn's new Panerai Submersible QuarantaQuattro PAM01676

One of the most publicised adventurers and a Panerai ambassador for around two decades, Mike Horn has been known to push the limits of his gears – watch included – to levels that you and I would probably never dare to imagine. Should his polar expeditions, high-altitude climbs or even underwater explorations be considered a testimony to the resistance of Panerai’s watches to extr...

2025-01-27

First Look: The MkII Fulcrum 39, an Accessible Mil-Spec Diver from Pennsylvania

Being a watch enthusiast/collector often requires looking at things with more than a little bit of romance. To make us want to keep acquiring the same tiny combination of metal, gears and springs over and over and over again, a watch must be more than the sum of its parts. Sometimes, that means looking back into the past at a certain watch and a specific time it was worn to add a little bit of tha...

2025-01-27

Introducing: The Enigmatic Ulysse Nardin Blast x Amoureuxpeintre

In what might be considered a surprising change of course, Ulysse Nardin announces its collaboration with Amoureuxpeintre, an edgy urban fashion designer who has been invited to reinterpret the Blast Skeleton X. Adopting the stark minimalism associated with Amoureuxpeintre's design philosophy, the grey monochromatic suit and blurry, frosted windows of the Blast Skeleton X give the watch an enigmat...

2025-01-27

Buying Guide: Five Salmon Watches To Satisfy Your Horological Appetite

“Guess what? I got a fever… and the only prescription is more Salmon Dials!” It could be our horological equivalent of SNL’s famous “More Cowbell!” sketch with Christopher Walken. If you don’t know what that is, I strongly urge you to Google it and then come back here to continue reading. Regardless, it’s no secret the MONOCHROME Editorial Team has a...

2025-01-26

The Petrolhead Corner: Toyota Wins The 2025 Dakar Rally

It’s a tradition at the start of every year that the world’s best and most ambitious adventurers on two and four wheels trek to the Saudi Arabian desert. The venue is the famous Dakar Rally, the most gruelling off-road endurance race on the calendar. While no longer a contest starting in Paris and finishing in Dakar, it remains the ultimate test of man and machine. Last year’s wi...

2025-01-25

First look: The new Hamilton Jazzmaster Performer Auto Chrono in Sporty Black

Hamiltons Performer is a relatively new series in the Jazzmaster collection, which comprises sporty, contemporary, and versatile watches, including seven 42mm Auto Chrono models. Classic in their appearance and with an undeniable wrist presence, these chronographs now face stiff competition from within, thanks to the arrival of the sleek, black-clad Hamilton Jazzmaster Performer Auto Chrono. Let&...

2025-01-23

Introducing: The Swatch x Blancpain Scuba Fifty Fathoms Pink Ocean

Following a rather unmanageable success with the Moonswatch collaboration with Omega, Swatch did it again in 2023 with yet another brand from the group – this time Blancpain – and with another emblematic watch – the Fifty Fathoms. The result, an accessible Bioceramic watch inspired by Blancpain’s famous dive watch, came with an automatic movement this time – which cer...

2025-01-23