Interview - Guy Bove On The New TAG Heuer Watches for 2022
Guy Bove has been the Creative Director of TAG Heuer for some three years now after working for several brands, including Breitling, the Chopard group and IWC… We took the opportunity of his presence at Watches and Wonders 2022 to sit down with him and learn more about the brand's latest creations.Xavier Markl, MONOCHROME – Guy, thanks for having us. What is the underlying theme for TAG Heuer at Watches and Wonders 2022? How is it translated into the brand's novelties? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Guy Bove, Creative Director of TAG Heuer – For 2022, we are working on three themes. One is innovation, one is quality, and the third is durability. In general, when you look at each model, you'll tend to see all three themes innovation on materials or on technology, quality where, hopefully, you'll notice that we are really working on creatin

First Look: Three New Colours for the Longines Legend Diver 39mm
The Super-Compressor Longines Diver ref. 7042 launched in 1959 and has since become an ambassador of sorts for the aquatic sports collection. Traditionally sized at 42mm with or without a date window, a more compact 39mm no-date variant debuted in 2023 and quickly became a fan favourite. This came with two lacquered dial colours, blue and black, and an updated automatic movement. This year, Longines adds three dial colours to its recently updated LLD and otherwise maintains the updates from the prior year. This celebrates the Legend Diver's 65th anniversary and offers the perfect middle ground between the 42mm and the (women's) 36mm option.? The Super-Compressor design (but not the original Piquerez EPSA case construction) features twin crowns and an internal rotating bezel, which is seen on all Legend Divers (since its reintroduction in 2007). The brushed and polished stainless steel case on the 2024 model is very wearable at 39mm in diameter and 12.7mm in heigh

Hands-on with the Richard Mille RM11-01 Roberto Mancini (Photos, Specs and Price) - Monochrome Watches
Recently we visited the Richard Mille in Switzerland. However it’s difficult to say that we visited THE manufacture, because there are several locations where the various parts are manufactured, finished, and assembled. Part “in-house” and partially not; so in the typical Swiss horological tradition. This gave us the chance to learn more about the brand, the manufacturing, the finishing and of course we got hands-on with some of the Richard Mille timepiece, like this extremely cool RM 11-01 Roberto Mancini. If budget permits (price is just above € 100k Euro), this is the perfect watch to accompany you to the Fifa Worldcup in Brazil.The former footballer Roberto Mancini has an impressive list of titles to his credit, and in 2009 he started as manager of Manchester City. According to Richard Mille he’s a true ‘gentleman of football’ and he is the very image of the brand: refined, technically brilliant and creative. The RM 11-01 was designed especially

Interview with Jer?me Lambert, CEO of Montblanc - Monochrome Watches
Just before this year’s SIHH started we had the chance to sit down with Jer?me Lambert, CEO of Montblanc. We’re talking with him about the third new collection that the brand launched since he joined the manufacture, in July of 2013, the integration of the two Montblanc manufactures and the brand new e-Strap that was launched on January 1st of this year. As of July 2013 Jer?me Lambert joined ?the German luxury brand and immediately you could feel there was someone else at the helm.?In the 1,5 years he has been with?Montblanc, they have launched three entirely new collection: last year’s Meisterstuck Heritage collection (which has been renamed to Heritage Spirit collection as of this year), the Boheme collection and the new Heritage Chronometrie collection that we’re covering (extensively) during these days, live from the SIHH. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Christian Selmoni on Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers, on keeping very Complicated Watches wearable and the Overseas - Monochrome Watches
Christian Selmoni is the Style and Heritage Director at Vacheron Constantin. He joined the brand thirty years ago, in 1990, and gradually climbed the ladder to his current position. He is also the man behind the design and development of the company's famous 250th-anniversary collections. Overall one of the most likeable persons in the watch industry, a perfect gentleman, always dressed to impress and when he starts talking about ‘his’ brand you can see and feel his enthusiasm. Through zoom, we talked about a range of topics including bespoke and one-off VC timepieces, some of the brand's most complicated pieces (and most complicated watches in the world), and the strategies of making a watch wearable when it’s packed with two dozen complications and watch faces on both sides.Christian Selmoni knows the Geneva-based brand like nobody else and the task of enriching and developing VC's heritage has his name written all over. He’s also responsible for extracting de