Breaking: The AP Code 11.59 Ultra-Complication Universelle Wins GPHG 2023
Tonight the 2023 edition of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve has just unveiled who is the grand winner of this year’s awards ceremony! Often regarded as the Oscars of Watchmaking, the GPHG stands for a celebration of all things surrounding mechanical watchmaking. A specially selected jury has narrowed down all the entries into multiple categories with 6 watches each. Out of all the entries, only one has been selected as the grand winner, receiving the coveted Aiguille d’Or trophy for Best of Show. In addition to that, each category winner also received an award. Last year, the impressive MB&F Legacy Machine Sequential EVO, one of the most advanced chronographs on the market, took the golden hand back home. This year, the jury of the GPHG 2023 was on a mission to celebrate watchmaking to the best of its capacities, rewarding what’s known as one of the most complicated wristwatches ever created… A watch with no fewer than 40 functions and 23 complic

Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sandblasted Trilogy of Metals (Titanium, Steel and Pink Gold) Baselworld 2018 - Specs & Price
Exactly a year ago, Bvlgari stunned the watchmaking world by launching what was then the thinnest automatic watch on the market, the?Octo Finissimo Automatic. The best thing about this watch was that it had nothing to do with a shy, demure timepiece. Instead,?Bvlgari came out with what we think is a true example of a luxury sports watch (see it face to face with the mother of them all, the RO). For Baselworld 2018, what was a single watch becomes a trilogy and a fully-fledged collection, with the introduction of the?Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sandblasted in steel and 18k rose gold.Impressive. This is the word that first came to mind when we discovered the?Octo Finissimo Automatic at Baselworld 2017. Not only in terms of mechanics. Not only in terms of styling. The mix of the two was an utterly impressive performance. Bvlgari already had the thinnest tourbillon and the thinnest minute repeater on the market. Then it launched the world’s thinnest automatic movement, placing i

Interview Matthias Breschan, CEO of Longines on 2021 collections
One of the oldest names in the Swiss watch industry, Longines is the market leader in the CHF 1,000-4,000 price segment. Matthias Breschan was named CEO of the brand last July, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 digital presentation of the brand’s novelties allowed us to talk to Breschan and find out how Longines has navigated 2020, look at its strategy, and discover some of the new products for 2021.?Xavier Markl, MONOCHROME – You took the helm at Longines as CEO a few months ago. What surprised you at Longines? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Matthias Breschan, Longines – Even though I have been working for 20 years in the watch industry, there are many things I did not know about the history of Longines. I was surprised to learn that Longines innovated with the flyback chronograph, the GMT, the rotating bezel, the hi

Breguet Classique Chronometrie 7727 - detailed Hands-on (live photos, specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
Here is the winner of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve, the prestigious contest that awards each year the best watches made by the industry. This edition of the GPHG was truly interesting and so is the?winner. The Breguet?Classique Chronometrie 7727 does really deserve its title of Watch of the Year or ‘Aiguille d’Or‘. This is not only due to the superb design. What Breguet achieved is more complex and deep than just creating a beautiful watch. They achieved to mix the classical Breguet features to a truly innovative movement that includes new materials, magnetism and high-frequency.?An impressive watch detailed here.Magnetism… Yes, you’ve read correctly. Breguet is using magnetism, watches worst enemy, in a movement. When most of the brand had been?trying for years to beat?the issue of magnetic fields, such as with the Milgauss or Omega with its new and impressive Master Co-Axial, Breguet goes one step further. First, the R&D team managed

Unique Patek Philippe ref. 5016A-010 Minute Repeater Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar in stainless steel for Only Watch 2015 - Monochrome-Watches
Here is?the big one! Just after Laurent Ferrier and Kari Voutilainen (and also Tudor that is coming with a unique edition of the Black Bay), it’s now time for Patek Philippe to introduce its unique watch for Only Watch 2015 – and be fully aware of one thing: THIS IS A KILLER WATCH. Based on a Ref. 5016, this one-of-a-kind edition is combining a minute repeater, a tourbillon and a perpetual calendar with retrograde date. The bonuses: a stainless steel case and an enamel dial. Here is the Patek Philippe Ref.?5016A-010 for Only Watch 2015.Not that we didn’t?like the previous watches that are to be auctioned by Phillips Watches in Geneva on November 7th, 2015 – we did have a big crush on the Laurent Ferrier Galet Square with Sector Dial and the beauty of the?Kari Voutilainen watch which can't be defeated - but the unique edition by Patek Philippe made especially for Only Watch 2015 is first ,and will surely be the one that will break all the records and it's also a