The Collector's Series - Peter Chong with his masterpiece, a Philippe Dufour Simplicity - Monochrome-Watches
When you speak to hardcore watch geeks, there is one name that consistently gets brought up in conversation.? Mr Philippe Dufour. There are very few owners of such watches and we're lucky enough to have one in the Collector's Series, in the name of Peter Chong, a true seasoned collector with certainly some of the most beautiful watches around. Peter founded Deployant with 2 other close friends in 2014 and runs the editorials. Last week we got to discuss what many would describe as their ultimate grail watch, the Philippe Dufour Simplicity.Peter Chong is a veteran watch collector. He has been an active commentator in the industry since the 1990. He founded the Lange Forum on Timezone.com in 1997, and continues to moderate the forum to this very day. He retired from an active commercial life in the aviation business in 2010 to write the book A. Lange & Sohne: The Pour le Merite Collection. The large coffee table book was published in 2011, and he decided to stay out of active commerc

Hands-On Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sejima Limited Edition
The Octo Finissimo series is one of the most striking collections of the last decade. With it, Bulgari has secured an impressive series of world records for thinness. But more than anything else, the Octo Finissimo is a style statement. Fabrizio Buonamassa and the?Bulgari team have created a modern icon, whose ultra-thin profile broke into the market in muted monochrome attire. Many iterations of the model have been released over the years. On the occasion of the Geneva Watch Days, Bulgari unveils an exceptional limited edition created with Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima.Winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize and of the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima is known for her clean modernist designs. Her use of materials, contrasts, light, transparency, and the play between the visible and the invisible are defining elements of her works. Unveiled on the occasion of the Geneva Watch Days, her collaboration with Bulgari has given birth to a

Bvlgari Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon - Hands-On, Price
Rome-based watchmaker/jeweller Bvlgari has unique credentials as a maker of chiming watches. Following the acquisition of Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth some 20 years ago, the brand has inherited and cultivated a tradition of crafting exceptional striking watches. Bvlgari is one of the very few makers to produce grande sonnerie wristwatches or to be capable of creating mechanical wonders as the Octo Finissimo minute repeater, the thinnest minute repeater ever. To kick off 2022, the brand presents a new version of its tourbillon minute repeater watch, the Bvlgari Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon?in platinum with its highly graphic movement treated in blue.The Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon combines two traditional complications – the tourbillon and the minute repeater – in a resolutely contemporary design language. Just like the blacked-out version presented last year, this new chapter in the “Sinfonia della Meccanica” stands out with the original and tri-dim

Chopard Mille Miglia GTS Power Control 2019 Edition // Hands-On
As the official partner of the famous Italian Mille Miglia Endurance race for over three decades now, Chopard celebrates its long-standing alliance with two limited-edition Mille Miglia models. Earlier this year, we reviewed the Mille Miglia Race Edition Chronograph dedicated to the historic rally from Brescia to Rome and back. Now it's time to take a closer look at the limited-edition Mille Miglia GTS Power Control model in a two-tone combination of stainless steel and rose gold. A more simple three-hander with date and power reserve gauge, the in-house, chronometer-certified automatic movement offers drivers 60 hours of autonomy.?Alexandra Pauli for ChopardGTS Power ControlMany of you will recognise this watch as the continuation of the first GTS Power Control model introduced at Baselworld 2015, and the more recent GTS Power Control Grigio Speciale of 2018. The distinguishing features of the first models were their black dials with rosso corsa?or racing red accents, oversized numera

The Omega Co-Axial Escapement Fully Explained - Monochrome Watches
The watchmaking industry is never short of innovations. Whether in the field of materials, movement architectures, displays or regulating organs, this industry never ceases to amaze with technical solutions to improve the accuracy of our beloved mechanical watches. However, when it comes to production at an industrial level, innovation is far more scarce. If you think about it, the escapement of our watches, the lever escapement (which is used by 99% of the mechanical movements) was conceived in 1750… However, there’s one man, and one brand, that believed in changing this situation, by launching the only escapement produced on an industrial scale other than the Swiss lever escapement. This is the story of the Co-Axial escapement, how Omega adopted it, and how it works.Challenging a system that is as accepted as the Swiss lever takes more than just a spirit of innovation. It takes conviction, it takes devotion and it takes time. This is exactly what happened to master watchm