Buying Guide: Six Aventurine Watches That Bring Starry Skies To The Wrist
The exact date of origin, and who discovered or developed the process of Aventurine glass remains unknown. It’s believed to be discovered by chance and first seen in Murano, Venice, at the beginning of the 17th century. Aventurine glass is made by adding metallic parts to heated crushed glass causing the particles to crystallise as it cools down. The result is a fascinating spectacle that resembles a star-studded night sky. The most common colours are black and dark blue, but as today’s Buying Guide will reveal, other colours are also possible. Whichever colour it comes in though, it’s almost certain to spark emotions!Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Flying TourbillonEarly on in 2023, Audemars Piguet massively impressed us with an array of incredible and often complex new releases in the Code 11.59 collection. The Flying Tourbillon you see here, is perhaps the most evocative one, with its rose gold and black ceramic case and exquisite automatic flying tourbillon movement

Maen, Reiser and Batavi provide honest, fun luxury sports watches
The luxury sports watch, preferably with an integrated design, has exploded in recent years. Both in contenders and in sales, as more and more brands enter this hotter-than-hot segment of the market. Regular faces and newcomers all want a piece of the action, and this leads to surprising new options to choose from. Today we're looking at three such watches on the more affordable side of the spectrum. And chauvinistic as we are sometimes, we've gone for three brands with Dutch ties to show you there are still plenty of fun watches to be found if you're willing to look beyond the usual suspects. Here are the new Maen Manhattan 37, the Reiser Alpen Skeleton and the Batavi Architect Tony Purple. ?Why so serious?We've said it time and time again: watches, to us, should be fun. They should bring joy to the owner, and an experience to remember for a long time if possible. I'm sure most of us remember the feeling of first seeing a watch, then hunting it down or waiting for it to be available,

Porsche Design Timepiece No.1 & Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition - specs and price - Monochrome Watches
Porsche Design is not only making leather goods and sunglasses. That’s not our material here at Monochrome-Watches. In our own name, there is watches and if we have to talk?about Porsche Design, it’s for their undoubtedly interesting timepieces. Black theme and chronographs had always been part of Porsche’s DNA. In order to keep the spirit alive, here are two new faithful editions, the?Porsche Design Timepiece No.1 & Chronograph Titanium Limited Edition.A small History LessonUndoubtedly Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was one of the truly great designers of the 20th Century. He conceived one of the world’s most recognizable and legendary sport cars; the Porsche 911. F.A. Porsche or Butzi as he was most notably known graduated from the Hoschule fur Gestaltung (HfG) design school in Ulm, a school founded by Max Bill a former student of Bauhaus in Dessau. The Bauhaus movement in art focused on aesthetics of everyday objects, reducing ornament to a fundamental and p

Recap - the Best Watches Introduced by OMEGA in 2021
For many brands, 2021 has been an incredibly challenging year, not only to navigate through the pandemic for the second year in a row but also to push the envelope and present one or more new models and collections. While some brands have postponed big releases to a later period in time, Omega decided to drop multiple important novelties. One of which was the unexpected but rather impressive Speedmaster Chronoscope collection, but there's more to Omega's news for this year than that.Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional Master ChronometerEarly on in the year, Omega launched a new take on the Speedmaster Moonwatch, one of the biggest icons in watchmaking history, for obvious reasons. It's a daunting task to refresh an icon into a new model, but Omega has succeeded on all fronts. The changes are subtle from the outside, with a slightly thinner and more compact case. A new bracelet ensures that the retouched case wears even more comfortable than ever. Omega also gave the new Speedmaste

Hands-On: The Slimmer and Smaller Byrne Gyro Dial Meca
Customisation has fast become a watch industry standard, offering buyers a host of case materials, dial colours, strap options, etc… However, it's not often that you come across a watch with four different faces, or rather, four different fonts for four revolving numerals on the dial. Designer and former watch restorer John Byrne's Gyro Dial is not a traditional high-brow complication, but its playful rotating cubes marked an industry first and belie the complex movement developed for Byrne. The latest Gyro Dial Meca, positioned as the inaugural model of a permanent collection, relies on a new manual-winding movement, relocates the crown, and comes in a more compact 38mm diameter case.Introduced just two years ago, Byrne's Gyro Dial has quickly gained popularity with its “one watch, four faces” strategy. This unique design approach, represented with closed and openworked dials, is proving to be a winning formula. Like the Gyro Dial Zero and the Gyro Dial Golf Edition,