Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne Minute Repeater Perpetual
Deploying its full arsenal for Watches and Wonders 2025, the Saxon powerhouse A. Lange & Sohne unveils the Minute Repeater Perpetual, a potent horological cocktail combining a minute repeater with a perpetual calendar. A rare and ambitious mix, the imposing platinum Minute Repeater Perpetual with a black enamel dial is powered by a newly developed manual-winding movement.?Lange has ample experience with both complications, as evidenced by the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, the Richard Lange Minute Repeater and the Lange 1 and Langematik Perpetual Calendar. While Lange has produced some mind-boggling complication mixes, like the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon, this is the first time Lange marries a QP to a minute repeater – excluding of course the Grande Complication (which added even more to the equation). Ad - Scroll to continue with article Lange’s

In-Depth: A Comprehensive Overview of Patek Philippes Annual Calendar
Calendar indications are a classic of watchmaking. But not all calendar watches are born equal. As our own Xavier Markl explained in this Technical Perspective article, calendar watches range from basic date displays to the ultra-rare and highly complex secular calendar mechanism and everything in between. Next to the highly praised perpetual calendar, there is a complication that has gathered great interest in recent years following its invention in 1996, the annual calendar. An almost-perfect mix of complexity, practicality and reliability, its creation has to be credited to Patek Philippe. Today, in our latest in-depth historical and technical article, we're taking a closer look at what makes it such a great complication, how it came to exist and what are the most notable Patek Philippe Annual Calendar watches.?Calendars and clocksWhen monks in 14th-century medieval Europe first invented clocks, they were primarily designed as mechanical calendars to track the seasons, religious hol

Christie's Sells the Unique Patek Philippe 5208T Only Watch 2017 for CHF 6,2 Million - Monochrome Watches
After the record-breaker that was the unique Patek Philippe 5016a for Only Watch 2015, which sold for an astonishing CHF 7.3 Million – at that time, before the Steel Patek 1518 and Paul Newman’s Paul Newman, the most expensive wristwatch ever – today was another potential record breaking watch for sale, the unique titanium, Minute Repeater, Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar?Patek Philippe 5208T made for Only Watch 2017. The hammer fell on this lot just a few minutes ago: CHF 6.2 Million. Not a record itself, but still again an impressive amount.Again this year, Patek Philippe brought the big guns, with a unique version of its 5208, a?Minute Repeater, Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar watch, made here with a titanium case, a unique blue dial with carbon fibre-like guilloche dial and a uniquely decorated movement – coated in dark grey and with a micro-rotor guilloched with the same pattern as the dial. Once again, an ultra-complex watch, made in a unique attire for th

Weekly Watch Photo - SIHH Impressions + Video Interview - Monochrome Watches
For the third year in a row, our friends at Montblanc invited me to the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie or SIHH. This allowed me to have a look behind the scenes of?the most prestigious luxury watch fair in the world.?Montblanc CEO mister Lutz Bethge talks with us about the SIHH and the Montblanc resident photographer?Pascal Le Segretain, who captured the atmosphere in stylish black & white, monochrome, images. And like we promised… in a few days, we have an exiting prize to give away to one of you! Ad - Scroll to continue with article The SIHH is a magnificent experience; it’s an invitation-only event where only the guests of the 16 exhibiting brands are welcome. Just imagine, 30.000 square meters, 16 exhibiting brands with HUGE booths, tables for 3-course lunch, bars for coffee, tea, your morning croissant or a nice glass of wine in

In the Shop - The MONOCHROME Montre de Souscription 1 with Habring2
“Since I started MONOCHROME in 2006, the motto has been “dedicated to fine watches”, and this is exactly what drives not just me, but the entire team, on a daily basis. I guess it goes without saying that we're watch enthusiasts ourselves. Today is a landmark in MONOCHROME's 15 years of history, as we introduce our first collaboration watch, the MONOCHROME Montre de Souscription 1.” Frank Geelen, Founder of MONOCHROME.?For our first collaboration watch, we turned to one of our favourite brands, Habring2, an independent Austrian watchmaking atelier created by Maria and Richard Habring in 2004. Habring2 specialises in unusual displays such as dead-beat seconds and foudroyante, as well as chronograph movements. Introducing the MONOCHROME Montre de Souscription 1, now available for orders at shop.monochrome-watches.com. Ad - Scroll to continue with article