Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Forged Carbon - Monochrome Watches
Our guest contributor Angus shares his views on the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Forged Carbon that was released earlier this year. Not only the Royal Oak had something to celebrate this year, but the Royal Oak Offshore, or ROO called by collectors, had something to celebrate; it was first launched 20 years ago.My son is 13 years of age and a precociously developed Adonis. I may appear somewhat biased but most parents will forgive the rose-tinted adoration of my handsome heir. On a recent holiday my son broke the news that he longer wished to pursue his chosen sport of rowing but return to the perilous game of rugby. He explained he missed the camaraderie of being in a large team. Ad - Scroll to continue with article My heart sank, my gorgeous boy was informing me he wished to jeopardise the lovely features of his beautiful face to the perils of stamping b

Service of Steltman Watches - Monochrome Watches
Usually i post about nice watches, but today i want to share an experience i had when visiting Steltman Watches in The Hague.Today a friend and me went looking for a watch for him. He was about to buying a new Panerai GMT (PAM88) which was on his wishlist for quite some time now. Ad - Scroll to continue with article After visiting a few great shops, who unfortunately didn’t have the desired watch, we went to the Panerai AD here in The Hague, Steltman Watches. While my friend asked for the PAM88 i told the sales person i’d like to see another Panerai that i just love, the PAM212.The salesman was Andrew Brom, the son of the owner of Steltman Watches. He told me he had seen me in the shop before and asked if i had bought a watch there before. I said i didn’t. Than he asked me if he should invest his time in me, since I had never bought a watch the

Introducing: The Hublot Big Bang Tourbillon Carbon SR_A by Samuel Ross
Artist and designer Samuel Ross is back at work with Hublot. A tradition for the brand over its 44 years of existence, Hublot has collaborated with many contemporary artists like Richard Orlinski, Maxime-Plescia-Buchi, Murakami and Daniel Arsham. Marking the third time the Swiss brand has worked with Samuel Ross, both parties bring back the bold, sculptural and lightweight Big Bang Tourbillon SR_A in a new colour scheme and with a carbon fibre case.?In 2020, to celebrate the watchmaker's 40th anniversary, the artist unveiled the REFORM sculpture, which inspired the design of the Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross, the first collaboration between Samuel Ross and Hublot on a timepiece. Having worked together on two occasions, resulting in orange and green editions of what’s one of the boldest watches of Hublot, Samuel Ross and the watch brand now launch a new chromatic variation based around the colour blue, incorporating new materials, specifically carbon. Ad - Scroll to c

Introducing the Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle World Time 2015 Edition - Monochrome-Watches
Alongside being a very elegant watch, the?Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle World Time has something special, something more, something that all world-time watches should have. Usually, this kind of watches comes with a display capable of displaying?24 different time-zones. Convenient right? Yes and no, as the world doesn't just have 24 but in fact 37 time-zones. Only a few watches can show all of the 37 time-zones and?this is indeed the case with this?Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle World Time, which comes with?a new face for 2015, including a new engraved gold dial.A world-timer is a watch that makes sense in our modern era, with more and more people working in international environment and traveling more often than ever before. The world became a global village where theoretically everyone will meet once. However, we do have to consider that we’re not all living on the same time-zone and a world-time watch can be an extremely useful ally. A world-timer usually features a d

Panerai PAM00396 - Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Ceramica - Monochrome Watches
There are those in the watchmaking community who hear the word Tourbillon' and immediately think of French nobility, sitting in a stuffy parlor, reading the time from a delicate porcelain-dialed watch (Marie Antoinette). Now, place that delicate 18th century escapement in Panerai watch. (Marie Antoinette, holding a machine gun, screaming LET THEM EAT LEAD!). Introducing the Panerai model PAM00396 - the Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Ceramica. Ad - Scroll to continue with article There are essentially two kinds of people in the world: People who LIKE Panerai watches and people who DON'T. Shocking, but true, there are people out there?who think that the Panerai watch is a throwback to distant ancestors on the horological evolutionary time-line. To those folks the cases are bulky. The functions are simple. The movements are crude and worse bought-in. (Why can't all wa