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5 Cool Finds - 5 super-complicated watches to make you feel like Gatsby - Monochrome Watches
Last week, our selection of 5 Cool Finds was clearly on the safe-side; 5 ultra-essential dive watches from mainstream brands, the kind of watches you can never go wrong with. This week, in our new episode of the Cool Finds, we’re going to explore completely different territories: the super-complicated watches. You want gold; we have. You want high-end brands; we have too. You want complications; oh yes we have. You want the kind of watches that reflect your tastes and your love for haute-horlogerie, we definitely have that. You want understated though, yes that’s what you’ll get. Together with our partner Chronext, here are 5 complex and super-luxurious watches that will make you feel like Gatsby – or simply fulfill your need of being the man that knows a lot about watches.If you listen to long-time collectors, they will tell you that once you’ve started, it’s hard to stop. After collecting on the safe-side, you might however want to grow as a watch-
Cartier launched Fine Watch Making iPad App - Monochrome Watches
Watch brands are slowly finding their way to the digital world and?almost every watch brand has a website. Some even found their way to Facebook and iPhone and iPad apps. Today the impressive iPad app of Cartier Fine Watchmaking. GEO, moderator of the Cartier forum @ Revolution Online,?wrote this about Cartier’s iPad App and I fully agree with him! Ad - Scroll to continue with article Yesterday I downloaded from the Apple iTunes App Store, Cartier’s Fine Watch Making iPad App. I have seen quite a few watch Apps by now and most of them were pretty boring or disappointing. Heads off for the makers of this App!It’s an extensive App, very tastefully designed, that contains all the Fine Watch Making models of 2010 and 2011. Illustrated with good photography and all the specs you would need and some models have videos as well. Since everything is
Bovet 19Thirty Dimier with blue dial - live pics, specs & price - Monochrome Watches
You know us here at Monochrome-Watches. Apart from the big names, there is something?that we especially love here: independent watchmaking. We do have a special appeal for watches manufactures by independent, smaller and creative watchmakers, not because they are always better executed?than those from the bigger brands, but mainly because they have something extra: a soul, a link to the people behind their construction, a certain originality that large brands can’t achieve (mainly for commercial reasons…). In order to experience (again) this feeling, we did get our hands-on a rather unique watch, the?Bovet 19Thirty Dimier with blue dial.Brief overview of Bovet 1822For those who aren’t aware of this brand, there are certain important facts to know. Bovet isn’t just another new brand, which design watches and assembled them with outsourced movements. Here, we’re talking about a proper integrated manufacture, with a strong history. Bovet was founded by Edouar
The Heuer Globetrotter Exhibition (Including the Main Watches to be Displayed)
Ever since Jean-Claude Biver took over as CEO at the end of 2014, it seems TAG Heuer has a new lease of life. From the vintage re-issue Heuer Autavia, to its sponsorship of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, the avant-garde watch manufacturer continues to find new ways to stay in the spotlight. This trend?looks set to continue with the unveiling of the brand's latest initiative, the Heuer Globetrotter, which officially kicks off on the 16th of September, possibly in a city near you.Celebrating TAG Heuer's more than 150 years of history, the company is inviting its fans from around the world to visit any one of 10 exhibitions being held at TAG Heuer boutiques in 10 different cities. This unprecedented event spans two weeks (16th - 30th Sept.) and will bring together over 400 pieces in total, including vintage Heuer models from the Manufacture museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds as well as selections of watches loaned by local collectors. For each participating boutique, TAG Heuer has chosen
Video: The Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 UFO Robot Grendizer
This is not the first time 1970s pop culture has come to life on a watch dial, and it's likely not to be the last time. There's just something appealing about past icons, and reviving them in relation to watches is common practice. One such watch to get this type of makeover is the Tissot PRX Powermatic 80. Born in the 1970s as the PRX, it was relaunched to great success just a few short years ago. This was at the peak of the luxury sports watch hype, and in came the Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 collection, an affordable and overall very well-finished alternative.Now though, Tissot's star of the 1970s collides with another icon from that era; UFO Robot Grendizer! UFO Robot Grendizer is a Japanese Manga comic book series and animated TV show created by Go Nagai. It revolves around Crown Prince Duke Fleed who flees his home planet after the people from planet Vega invade it. He does so in the Grendizer, a giant mecha robot, and ends up on Earth. The show first aired on Japanese television in
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