Announcing - The New and Improved MONOCHROME Website
After a few months of intense work, discussions, tests and designs, we couldn’t be prouder to present the 2020 version of MONOCHROME. Refreshed, cleaned, more interactive and more dynamic, with new sections and improved navigation, this is the new face of your “Online Magazine Dedicated to Fine Watches”. But no worries, it is still MONOCHROME all the way!What’s new? First of all, we wanted to discreetly bring back our somehow forgotten but beloved “Monochrome Brown”, which has been used for years at MONOCHROME, changed to a full black-and-white scheme and now back in the game. This is our signature colour and we’re proud of it! Ad - Scroll to continue with article Besides this visual detail, we’ve worked intensively on the new homepage. This is where you’ll be able to navigate, discover, enjoy. There are more

Best Of 2019 - Our Top 5 High-End Complicated Watches / Buying Guide
As 2019 is coming to an end, we've gathered the MONOCHROME redaction team and started to think about the watches that most impressed us this year. After a look at the best chronographs, the best dive watches,?the best traveller's watches?and our favourite accessible watches, it is time to look at the stuff dreams are made of… The inaccessible, the exceptional, the watches without compromise – but not those that are unattainable just to show off, but because what’s inside is pure high-horology. So here are the 5 high-end and complicated watches that we consider our Best of 2019.?Armin Strom Minute Repeater ResonanceThe past couple of years, Armin Strom has been demonstrating impressive innovation spirit and cutting-edge technology, first and foremost with its one-of-a-kind Resonance concept – one of the few that truly works. After several watches with this technology only, the brand has decided this year to combine it with one of the most complex of functions, th

Bucherer Acquires Another US-Based Retailer: Baron & Leeds - Monochrome Watches
In January this year, Europe’s largest watch retailer announced the acquisition of US-based group Tourneau?from Green Equity Investors IV LP,?an investor group that owned Tourneau for decades. While this represented a first (and major) step in the American strategy of the Swiss retailer, the group didn’t stop there and yesterday,?Tourneau's parent company Bucherer USA?announced it has?purchased Baron & Leeds, another US retailer.Baron & Leeds was founded in 2002 and operates four stores in California and?Hawaii – two official boutiques and two eponymous stores. The boutiques are located at South Coast Plaza in California and at International Market Place in Honolulu. The two Baron & Leeds stores are based on?Maui. Amongst the brands in its?portfolio, Baron & Leeds is the official retailer for? , Tudor, Patek Philippe as well as several jewellery brands.Yesterday,?Swiss company Bucherer, via its US-based subsidiary company Bucherer USA (which now ma

Jaeger-LeCoultre Jubilee Collection 180 years - Tribute to Antoine LeCoultre - Monochrome Watches
Ok. How do we do this?? Where do we start?? I suggest you sit back, take a deep breath, set aside anything you might have seen in the past couple of years, hold tight and enjoy the following three (Yes, THREE!!) timepieces by Le Grande Maison: Jaeger-LeCoultre.Jaeger-LeCoultre was founded in the Swiss Vallee de Joux region back in 1833, and for you quick thinkers that means that this year they exist 180 years. Now who can let that go by unattended? Exactly, no one. They have released a trio of absolutely stunning timepieces that boggle the mind and all comprehensible senses. Not just one timepiece to celebrate their birthday, but three extra special and highly exclusive creations. Ad - Scroll to continue with article First of, and this takes another deep breath just to pronounce correctly, is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee.

Norqain Freedom 60 GMT & Freedom 60 39mm (With Price)
Even though the brand is still young, Norqain is a brand to follow. Created in 2018 in Nidau, Switzerland, the brand has unveiled many models to create a comprehensive and coherent collection of functional and adventure-inspired watches. And in terms of production and strategy, the roadmap is pretty clear and includes a strategic partnership with Kenissi to provide manufacture movements. Today the brand launches two new models in the Freedom collection, with new complications, sizes, materials and now fitted with COSC-certified manufacture engines. Meet the new Norqain Freedom 60 GMT & Freedom 60 39mm, including some bronze editions.It takes more than just luck and ambition to achieve this level of integration and development after only two years of existence. Norqain has a solid strategy and introduces products that are coherent, well executed and, more surprisingly, powered by solid movements made by Kenissi (owned by Chanel and Tudor/ ). This partnership was announced earlier th