The Collector's Series - Charles and his fascinating Gronefeld Parallax Tourbillon... In Titanium - Monochrome-Watches
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting down with?distinguished?collector and?contributor to the Deployant Blog,?Charles Sutanto.?As an engineer, Charles tells me it was really a?fascination?with mechanics that drew him to watches. ?His horological journey started approximately 15 years ago with the purchase of Jaeger LeCoultre Master?Memovox. In his early days of collecting he?found himself appreciating?creations?from the likes?of both?Audemars Piguet and Panerai. It is fair to say that as time went on, during?2007 and the Tempus, Charles went through somewhat of a transition in his collecting focus. This was the period in which he was introduced to the world of independents and haute haute horology. Voutilainen, De Bethune and other independents became the core of Charles' focus. With this in mind, I?thoroughly?enjoyed discussing a watch you rarely see in the wild…a Gronefeld Parallax Tourbillon (in titanium).When did you first get into watches?I guess what ignite my in

HIBAW: (Honey I Bought Another Watch!): The Holiday Edition - Monochrome Watches
We are fast approaching the holiday season. ?With it comes the promise of seeing family and all your favorite foods and festive, joyous decorations. ?Oh, and then there is the unbearable agony of having to figure out what to get for your wife or girlfriend!If we revisit the past HIBAW articles I've introduced handbags, scarves and bracelets to the list of things that can be readily had and used to distract attention away from the shiny new?Voutilainen or?Gronefeld?watch you just bought.?Now it's really pay-back time!?Let's get creative and get shopping! Ad - Scroll to continue with article Five Golden Rings!A recurring theme in my life and in my writing is that jewelry never actually solved any problem but it's drawn attention away from several big ones!? Let's look at rings!? CAUTION!? In certain parts of the world, giving a ring for a holiday or a birthday is

Longines Legend Diver No-Date Poland Limited Edition - News, Price
Among the countless retro-styled watches created by Longines – yes, there are a lot, and some are very desirable – one holds a special place in the heart of vintage dive watch enthusiasts, a watch that has been around for more than a decade now: the Legend Diver. Inspired by a 1960s compressor-style model, it returned to the market in 2007 with a no-date display… until it was (sadly) updated with a date. But, something has surfaced recently, something from Poland, something which has to do with our friends at CH24.pl. Yes, the LLD No-Date is back, albeit it in a very limited run of watches for the Polish market. Meet the new Longines Legend Diver No-Date Poland Limited Edition.?An original Longines Legend Diver Ref. 7042 – photo by blog.crownandcaliber.comThe modern Legend Diver is a faithful recreation of a very desirable dive watch created by Longines in the early 1960s, the Ref. 7042. This watch featured an oversized compressor case – with twin-crowns a

Hands-On - The new Longines 1832 Moon Phase (Specs & Price)
Longines has created a new family of watches with the simple name of 1832. Up till now, there was only a three-hands and date in the collection, but today we have a new model that I believe is going to be successful: the Longines 1832 Moon Phase. The number corresponds to the year of Longines’ foundation, and we have to be thankful for the brief name – we all know the Swiss tendency to give watches never-ending names (for instance). In spite of the name, the two models in this new collection are not recreations of historic models or even models from the first half of the last century; that is the job of the Heritage collection.In this case, we are looking at models with a touch of 1950s and 1960s design inspiration. It is true that inside the Heritage family, there are watches with this inspiration, but I understand Longines’ idea is to avoid a hotchpotch of styles that in the end only creates confusion. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

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