Weekly Watch Photo - A. Lange & Sohne Tourbograph - Monochrome Watches
The sole purpose of Monochrome’s Weekly Watch Photo is to celebrate the beauty of a beautiful watch and/or movement that is photographed in an extraordinary beautiful way. And that’s exactly what this week’s photo does…Friend and colleague Peter Chong is one of the?most respected?watch photographers in the world and his passion for beautiful timepieces from A. Lange & Sohne already resulted in several Weekly Watch Photo posts and, more important, a stunning book about the Pour le Merite collection from A. Lange & Sohne. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Earlier this year we interviewed mister Chong about his passion for A. Lange & Sohne and found out it was a very personal reslationship between him, the brand and the people behind the brand up to the highest ranks. The result is a magnificent book, with loads of information

A Technical Perspective - New Devices to Optimize Minute Repeaters
Repeater clocks were invented well before electric lighting, in order to be able to consult the time in the dead of night. By activating a trigger or a pusher, a repeater chimes the time on demand and is often regarded, and rightfully so, as one of the pinnacles of mechanical watchmaking. Dozens of components, manufactured to exact tolerances, must be combined to orchestrate these extremely complex mechanisms. The quality of a minute repeater is also judged by the sound that it produces. Watchmakers pay utmost attention to their acoustic quality, patiently adjusting various parameters to reach the loudest, clearest and richest sound possible. The pace of the chime or the eventual background noise (the buzzing noise produced by the regulator) are also particularly important. In their quest to produce the ultimate minute repeater, watchmakers conduct sound research programs to optimise the chime of their watches.In a minute repeater, sound is most of the time produced by small hammers st

Massive Shake-ups Again at Richemont - Incl. New CEOs for JLC and Baume & Mercier - Monochrome Watches
2017 has been quite a hectic year for the Richemont Group. We’ve?witnessed?the “Big Reshuffle” with the departure of four CEOs (JLC, Vacheron, Piaget, Dunhill) as well as the appointment of Lambert as Head of Operations and Kern as Head of Watchmaking, Marketing and Digital. Everything was planned until Kern announced his departure for Breitling, which led Lambert to be appointed?COO of all the Maisons. The storm isn’t over yet, even if the situation seems easier today. According to Business Montres, there are new CEOs for both Jaeger-LeCoultre and Baume et Mercier. Ad - Scroll to continue with article For the last 12 months,?Jaeger-LeCoultre has been an orphan – a brand without a proper CEO, as the head of the Grande Maison was in the hands of Geoffroy Lefebvre, Deputy CEO. Today, the Richemont Group is about to announce a new (and

Hands-On - IWC Pilot Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Ceratanium IW388106
This year is the year of the TOP GUN family at IWC Schaffhausen. A concept born in 2007 with the?Pilot's Watch Double Chronograph IW379901 Black Ceramic, the TOP GUN range is all about its technical look, stealthy design and use of innovative materials for the case. For Watches & Wonders 2022, in addition to the coloured ceramic models – white Lake Tahoe and green Woodland – IWC is bringing a little brother to one of our all-time favourite models, the Double Chronograph TOP GUN Ceratanium. Smaller, slightly simpler but sharing the same ultra-cool design, here’s the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 TOP GUN Ceratanium IW388106.?As an ode to one of the most famous fighter schools in the world – we’ve all seen the movie, and the second instalment is due in a couple of months – IWC created a sub-range in its pilot’s watch collection that is as powerful and technical as the Miramar-based United States Navy Fighter Weapons School. From t

Doxa SUB-300 Black Lung Reissue - Review with Live Pics, Specs & Price
The Doxa SUB-300 is regarded as one of the most important watches?of all time amongst the diving community. Launched in 1966, it was certainly not the first dive watch (that credit goes to the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms and the Submariner, both launched in 1953), however, it was one of the first professional dive watches and, for that alone, it is historically important. This year, Doxa follows up the success of 2016's sold-out 50th Anniversary SUB 300 Professional with another vintage-reissue, this time bearing the famous Aqua-Lung logo. Here’s the Doxa SUB-300 “Black Lung”, a tribute to an ultra-rare 1967 vintage Doxa prototype.Some History – the?Doxa SUB-300The concept of the dive watch, and by that we mean a watch specifically developed to fulfil the needs of professional divers (which was the case in the 1950s until the 1970s, before diving computers emerged), began to emerge after World War II when the quest to understand?the silent underwater world properl