Breaking New President at Omega - Stephen Urquhart to retire, Raynald Aeschlimann to take over - Monochrome Watches
Taking the opportunity of his forthcoming 70th birthday, Mr. Stephen Urquhart, actual President of Omega Watches?(since 2000), is about to retire and to leave his?seat to a younger man, Mr.?Raynald Aeschlimann. Starting his new role on 1 June 2016,?Aeschlimann will have the responsibility to guide one of the largest watch company around the world, Omega Watches, part of the main watch conglomerate, the Swatch Group. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Mr. Stephen Urquhart, actual President of Omega Watches (credits – chronos24.pl)Stephen Urquhart, Swiss and British citizen and actual President of Omega Watches, began his career at Omega in 1968. From 1974 to 1997 he pursued his career with Audemars Piguet, where he became Joint Chairman and Delegate of the Board of Directors from 1989 onwards. Mr. Urquhart returned to Swatch Group in 1997 as President of

Hands-On: The TAG Heuer Monaco Chonograph Night Driver
As a cornerstone of TAG Heuer‘s identity since 1969, the square-shaped Monaco chronograph is fuelled by associations with the race track. Named after the most glamorous of F1 races, the Monaco soared to fame in 1971 after its cameo in Le Mans on Steve McQueen’s wrist. Following a hiatus in the mid-1970s, the Monaco was reintroduced in the late 1990s and continues to evolve. Accustomed to the more colourful livery of earlier editions, the latest Monaco to roar out of the paddocks is a more toned-down, monochromatic version with a glowing night-time personality known as the Monaco Chronograph Night Driver.Short BackgroundHeuer was one of the three competitors in the race to develop the first automatic chronograph movement. Partnering with Breitling, Hamilton-Buren and Dubois-Depraz, the team produced the Chronomatic calibre 11. Unveiled in 1969, along with Zenith’s El Primero and Seiko’s 6139 automatic chronograph movements, Zentih’s movement was the first t

Hands-On: The New Longines Conquest 2023 Chronograph
The name Conquest is an important one at Longines, as it refers to a long-lasting collection that was first introduced in 1954. A surprising fact about this name: it was the first step in an emerging marketing strategy for the brand, which was to give a name to a family of watches, creating a collection. Something that seems common these days but proved powerful back then. Since then, the name Conquest has been synonymous with classic, all-rounder watches. The previous Conquest (not to be confused with the dive-oriented HydroConquest) had been around for many years and had started to look slightly outdated. But this year, Longines has decided to revamp entirely its go-anywhere, do-anything collection with the new Longines Conquest 2023. And after our introduction of the entire collection, it’s now time to have a closer look at the chronograph edition.The Longines Conquest started its life in 1954 – to be precise, on April 3rd, 1954, Longines filed a patent for its Conquest

Introducing the IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher Chronograph (specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
Recently, IWC introduced a unique edition of the Portofino launched at the occasion of the?Tribeca Film Festival 2015, a watch that later had been auctioned by Christie’s. Surprisingly, this unique timepiece came with a brand new movement,?never seen before in?the rest of the Portofino collection: a hand-wound mono-pusher chronograph. However, we knew?this was?not just a unique attempt, this was?a launching piece for?IWC's new in-house Hand-Wound 8-Days Monopusher chronograph movement – and here is now the regular edition. Please welcome the?IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher.Basically, this new?IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Monopusher Chronograph is a mechanical (but not visual) evolution of the actual?IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days.?Until now, IWC's Hand-Wound 8-Day calibre, a large movement that can be found for example in the Portuguese Hand-Wound 8 Days - 75th Anniversary Edition, featured a small off-center?second display (at 6 o'clock), a power reserve indicator (at

The watch collector - a strange breed of people? - Monochrome Watches
Monochrome’s contributor Dr. Watch shares his personal ideas about the strange breed called watch aficionados. Be prepared and join the discussion!A few years ago, quite a lot actually, Nike launched an intriguing campaign featuring a picture of an unattractive man who was clearly more worried about sports results than fashion. The tagline was something like “Runners are freaks; they don’t act like normal people, they don’t dress like normal people”. I won’t bother anyone with the dressing habits of the average watch fan, but when it comes to ‘not acting like normal people’, watch freaks are just as uhmmm freaky as the average runner. Ad - Scroll to continue with article I’ve been a watch nerd for my entire adult life (before the tender age of 18, I think people could be forgiven for wearing stuff, not just w