Gerald Charles Maestro 8.0 Squelette - Hands-On, Price
The mission of Gerald Charles, an independent family-owned watch company based in Lugano, is to perpetuate the legend of the late Gerald (Charles) Genta, the foremost watch designer of the 20th century. With a portfolio of watches built around an extravagant Genta case design known as Maestro, the brand launches the Gerald Charles Maestro 8.0 Squelette, a skeletonised version of the watch designed by Octavio Garcia – ex-artistic director of Audemars Piguet and founder of Gorilla Watches. The choice of Garcia was surely intentional, given that Gerald Genta's meteoric career took off with a watch design he made for Audemars Piguet in 1972 that is now more popular than ever.Frederico Ziviani, CEO of Gerald Charles, and Octavio Garcia, designerThe MaestroGerald Charles Genta (1931-2011) was the brainchild behind the luxury sports watch. Following a renewed and highly successful design for Omega's Constellation watch in 1959, Gerald Genta's design career took off. Icons like the AP Ro

About MONOCHROME Watches - Monochrome Watches
For more than twelve years, MONOCHROME has been dedicated to fine watches. Our team of experts is always looking for an opportunity to explain every aspect of Haute Horlogerie - whether manufactured by well-known watch brands that have been in the business for centuries or by artisanal watchmakers. MONOCHROME is one of the most read watch blogs (or online magazines, as we prefer to call it ourselves) in the world, and besides news, we serve you reviews, historically relevant articles, videos and in-depth technical explanations in our Technical Perspectives.What sets MONOCHROME apart, is that we love to explain, educate and share the passion for technically complex aspects and the beauty of hand-finished mechanical movements. Not everyone understands the nitty-gritty of a constant force mechanism, a tourbillon or a perpetual calendar, and many technical aspects remain ‘abracadabra’. That’s why we?explain?everything in a way that makes it easy to understand. It's our pa

Hands-on with the AkriviA Tourbillon Monopusher Chronograph (Photos, Specs and Price) - Monochrome Watches
During Baselworld 2014 we had an opportunity to sit down with the AkriviA crew, including its master watchmaker and founder Rexhep Rexhepi. The young brand stepped up to the plate back in 2012, with quite a complex first creation: The AkriviA Tourbillon Monopusher Chronograph. Under the Swiss sunlight at this year's fair, we got some hands-on time with this debut model and with two new prototype dials as a small bonus!AkriviA, which translates to precision in ancient Greek, was founded by Rexhep Rexhepi and Etienne Deschamp in 2011 (Deschamp has already left AkriviA in order to pursue new challenges). Rexhep Rexhepi is a young master watchmaker with an interesting educational background which includes an apprenticeship at Patek Philipe at the age of 14, and working as movement developer for BNB Concepts (which went bust in 2010, then was partially bought by Hublot, resulting in the Hublot Cle du Temp). Ad - Scroll to continue with article

SIHH 2015 - Panerai Mare Nostrum Titanio 52mm PAM00603 - Hands-on with live photos & Price - Monochrome Watches
Panerai and the sea are eternally linked. This strong bond is imbedded within the DNA of the company right from the very beginning of its existence. The Panerai Marina Militare was the first truly underwater watch that was made?for the italian military divers to time accurately their operations during the WWII. Panerai is characterized for big watches, minimal in character and unique in appearance. However, Panerai produced a wide variety of naval instruments and other very unique watches, and one of them is the Panerai Mare Nostrum. And here is a new edition, the?PAM00603 or?Mare Nostrum Titanio 52mm.The term Mare Nostrum means Our Sea, and historically used mainly during the Second World War. The victorious missions of the Royal Italian Navy meant that for a short time, a wide area of the Mediterranean Sea was controlled by the Italian fleet. In 1943 Panerai decided to create a chronograph for the deck officers of the Royal Italian Navy. This name (i.e Mare Nostrum) had already been

Tudor Black Bay GMT One Master Chronometer Only Watch 2021
When Tudor donates a unique watch to the Only Watch charity auction, the biennial event aimed at raising funds for research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, it is usually in teasing mode. In 2015,? a unique Tudor Black Bay with a black bezel was presented, which led to the 79220N. Two years later, Tudor created the lefty Black Bay Bronze with a khaki green bezel, and in 2019 a full black, ceramic Black Bay, which gave us the recent BB Ceramic. For this year's edition of the charity event, Tudor comes up with another potential teaser, the Tudor Black Bay GMT One for Only Watch 2021 – at least, regarding the movement…The one-off Black Bay GMT One donated for Only Watch 2021 has a rather unique look in more ways than one. Selecting the extremely popular Black Bay is a no-brainer for Tudor and continues the tradition that started back in 2015. This year's edition sees the Black Bay GMT in an aged steel case, bezel and bracelet. The entire watch has been given a patinated look, i