Buying Guide - 5 Watches That Break The Silence, On Demand!
With a complication originally born out of necessity yet now regarded as one of the ultimate expressions of mechanical watchmaking, the watches in today’s Buying Guide do more than just tell time. Each and every one of them is a wrist-worn mechanical masterpiece in some form, from the very refined to the boldly extravagant. The connection between the five? Besides ultra-complex movements, exotic materials and monumental price tags, they are united by their ability to produce sound! That’s right, today’s selection of watches all have a chiming mechanism of some sort on board!A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Minute RepeaterWhen A. Lange & Sohne introduced the Richard Lange Minute Repeater during Watches & Wonders 2022, it instantly struck a chord with us. It is a very fitting expression of refinement on one hand and Lange’s mechanical prowess on the other. At first glance, the 39mm wide and 9.7mm thin watch looks like a very classical dress watch, but th

Grieb & Benzinger Blue Whirlwind with Skeletonized Patek Philippe Tourbillon Minute Repeater - Monochrome Watches
Grieb & Benzinger are known for the?mind-blowing masterpiece they create, based on the most lovely old pocket watch movements from Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Minerva chronographs?and others.The newest masterpiece from the “masters of skeletonized watches” is the Blue Whirlwind, an amazing skeletonized tourbillon minute repeater based a rare Patek Philippe caliber in a platinum case. A similar masterpiece (however in a steel case) was donated to Only Watch 2011 and auctioned for 1.4 million Euro! Ad - Scroll to continue with article Grieb & Benzinger found a rare?Patek Philippe tourbillon minute repeater movement, caliber RTO 27 PS, and did their thing with it;?fully skeletonized, guilloche and engraved by hand. Even gear wheels were embellished with guilloche and the 12 finely guilloche bridges and cocks coated with rhodium and rose

Tip: visit SalonQP in London next month - Monochrome Watches
From November 8 – 10 the Saatchi Gallery will be the place to be for everyone interested in watches. That’s where the fourth edition of SalonQP, UK’s only fine watches exhibition, and hosted by QP magazine’s James Gurney, will be held.?After the many great stories from fellow watch enthusiast, who visited SalonQP in previous years, I’m very much looking forward to my first SalonQP. Monochrome has already showed you several new models that you can first see ‘live’ at SalonQP, like the Resilience and Classic HMS from Peter Speake-Marin and Sarpaneva’s K0 Wuoksi. Ad - Scroll to continue with article SalonQP has an impressive line-up of exhibitors, like Jaeger-LeCoultre, Girard-Perregaux, Piaget and Vacheron Constantin. And also smaller (independent) brands will be exhibiting their collections and that on itself is a p

Hands-on with the Montblanc Meisterstuck Heritage Pulsograph with Minerva Monopusher Chronograph - Monochrome Watches
Before and during the SIHH 2014, in January of this year, we showed you most of the new Montblanc timepieces. We owe you some good hands-on reports about the new pieces, especially of the Meisterstuck Heritage collection. During the SIHH we sat down with Ben Clymer, founder and executive editor from Hodinkee, to discuss the new Meisterstuck Heritage collection and today we’re going to review his (and our) favourite, the Meisterstuck Heritage Pulsograph. If we have to choose a favourite, it is most definitely the Heritage Pulsograph. Simply because it offers a hand-made, fully hand-finished, absolutely stunning movement, for an extremely competitive price. In that perspective it perfectly fits in the Meisterstuck Heritage collection, as the price level of all timepieces in this collection is almost shockingly competitive. And that’s something that most have surprised not only you and us, but also the competition. One thing became immediately clear, when we handled the new ti

HYT H1 Red2 - Full REVIEW (live photos, specs, price) - Monochrome-Watches
We, at Monochrome-Watches, love independent watchmaking, very unusual displays and audacity of creation. HYT Watches had always been on our radar because it brings everything a young and ‘unchained’ Manufacture should: innovation, boldness, no compromise, unconventionality and that little slice?of craziness that we love. Until recently our experience with the brands and their timepieces were based on?(too) fast hands-on reviews during?exhibitions such as Baselworld?and the likes. It is now time to feel the experience of having an HYT H1 Red2 strapped on the wrist on a daily basis.What is HYT Watches?Although the introduction of the HYT H1 is quite recent (during Baselworld 2012), the idea of?a “water watch” was on Lucien Vouillamoz’ mind since 2002. After a few attempts and more researches, the idea had proved to be utopia, because of?a missing technology. A?few years after,?Lucien Vouillamoz, a former?nuclear engineer with a degree in thermodynamics, deci