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Recap: The MONOCHROME Team's Favorites of Watches and Wonders 2025
Watches and Wonders 2025 is about to close its doors and it’s time for Team MONOCHROME to fly back home after one of the most intense weeks of the year. We’ve seen hundreds of watches, if not thousands, published way over a hundred articles, took several thousands of photos and published over a dozen videos on YouTube. But it is time now to settle a bit and simply discussed what were the watches that gave us the best impression, the watches we, on a personal level, liked the most. The brief to Frank, Xavier, Robin and Brice, the core members of the team was simple: no constraints, just select the three watches that you’d want on your wrist.?Note: this selection is based on our own preferences. We will come back with more of these selections in the coming days, covering specific topics – technical, design, affordable… So stay tuned.Brice – Patek Philippe Calatrava 6196PWhy…? Because it is the essence of the dress watch by Patek, a watch thatR
Dutch Watch Collector Paul, On Building His Dream Dress Watch, The Angelier Classique
I’m pretty sure that at one point in every watch enthusiast’s life, the inspiration to design your own watch pops into your head. Through buying, owning and possibly selling watches, we tend to get a pretty good feeling of the pros and cons of what’s out there. The next step would be to put that design to paper, which is a leap only a handful of people will make. Even fewer will take that design and actually seek out patterns and suppliers to make it a reality. And from that handful of projects, only a small percentage will actually make it. And from all of that wheat-from-chaff separating, just a handful will turn into a commercial brand. Such are the challenges in building your dream watch, which takes guts, perseverance, a clear vision, and a little bit of luck. With all this in mind, we turn to Paul Angelier, a Dutchman whose story follows this path and who’s building his actual dream dress watch. And through the support (and demands, it seems) of a good num
First Look: The Europe-Only Platinum Tank Louis Cartier Limited Edition
While the name Santos often comes to mind when speaking about Cartier watches, it would be more precise in this instance to talk about the brand’s first wristwatch – and most probably one of the earliest purpose-built wristwatches. In fact, when talking about watches in general, the first (pocket)watches by Cartier appeared as early as 1853, only six years after the creation of the atelier by Louis-Fran?ois Cartier. To celebrate 170 years of watchmaking, today, the brand is releasing an appealing new limited edition based on the hand-wound Tank Louis Cartier LM, exclusive to the European market, combining a platinum case with an Art Deco blue dial.?Despite being named LM or Large Model, what we’re looking at today is a truly modest watch, at least regarding its proportions. Is this a bad thing? Not at all. It’s sometimes rather refreshing to strap such a compact watch on the wrist, specifically when we’re talking about one with the sheer elegance of the Ta
2020 Longines Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935 (Specs & Price)
We’ve said it before: Longines is one of the brands with the richest history and it is clear that the current management knows how to capitalize on this with the successful Heritage collection – which has recently seen the addition of the Tuxedo or the Sector dial models. One area of expertise for Longines has always been aviation watches, with models like the BigEye or the Hour Angle watch made for Charles Lindberg. And there’s the iconic Type A-7, which today makes its comeback in a more reasonable and faithful package.?The 1935 Longines?Type A-7 for the US ArmyFirst issued between the World Wars, the Type A-7 Avigation Hack Watch was a pocket watch chronograph adapted to the wrist specifically designed for navigation. Think of it as an American equivalent to the German B-Uhr Fliegers, only with a chronograph, or to the French Type 20 (see our article about Type 20 watches here). It was supplied to the US Army Air Corps (1926-1941), the predecessor of the US Army Ai
Weekly Watch Photo - Nautilus Chrono - Patek Philippe ref. 5980/1A - Monochrome Watches
Every time I see the Nautilus Chronograph, I have the feeling my knees get a bit weak and my vision gets a bit blurry (that means, everything around this watch gets blurry). A typical case and I plead guilty.End of last year I posted Bruno’s photo of his Patek Philippe Nautilus Chronograph or (for connoisseurs) the reference 5980/1A. In that post I wrote about my collection and how we sometimes seem to get our orders directly from a higher force. Because I don’t have the financial means to fulfill those orders I will keep posting other people’s photos of the 5980/1A. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Joe B. (or JeepRat on Timezone.com) posted some of his photos in the Patek Philippe forum over at Timezone and was so kind to let me share his photo of his beloved Patek. Writing about watches has its privileges, however it also has some serious
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