Vote for the AskMen 2013 Watch Awards - Monochrome Watches
AskMen just launched their first Watch Awards for the upcoming 9 days you can vote for your favorites. Just two weeks ago we announced the winner of the Timezone Watch of the Year. AskMen offers us to vote for our favorites in five different?categories, catering options for everyone. ?Beginners Watches, Sports Watches, Special-Occassion Watches, Watch-Snob Approved and Brand of the Year are the five categories. In every category you have the choice between a set of watches, selected by a group of extremely qualified and knowledgable judges ?? And since AskMen has been covering Monochrome’s Weekly Watch Photo, I guess I’m one of them. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Beginners watches are the more affordable ones, sports watches are of course more sporty watches and the special-occasion watches are meant for formal occasions, also called dress wat

In-Depth: The Ultra-Complication Watch by Audemars Piguet, Code 11.59 Universelle
Let’s go straight to the point: Audemars Piguet chose its Code 11.59 to house its most complicated wristwatch, the Ultra-Complication Universelle RD#4, delivering a bold statement and demonstrating the brand’s incredible technical brilliance. It’s complex yet compact, displays the indications neatly, and is simple to operate. Today, we dive in to describe the timepiece to you in detail.It seems like it has been over four years since Audemars Piguet introduced the Code 11.59 collection. Released in 2019, it was initially met with negativity and criticism for not being another Royal Oak when it shouldn’t. While it is true that the brand has entirely and unfortunately become synonymous with the iconic Royal Oak and its derivatives in view of the general public, AP must be praised for making a very radical and courageous step towards becoming, once again, recognised as a leading watchmaking company with a diverse portfolio. And what a step it was. The year the colle

Code 11.59 By Audemars Piguet Flying Tourbillon Onyx/Ceramic 26396NB
Audemars Piguet will be dressing up its complications in ceramic for the end of this year, including the striking full-blue RO Perpetual, or various editions of Code 11.59. One of the recipients is Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Self-Winding Flying Tourbillon. The white gold and black ceramic case frame an absolutely captivating, inky black onyx dial graced with the ballet of a flying tourbillon at 6 o'clock. I have always thought that the Code 11.59 collection was better suited for simple, minimalist designs and the purity of this black tie take on the model works exceptionally well. So well that this could be the best edition of this watch so farThe 41mm case of this automatic flying tourbillon model retains the traditional design of Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet, but plays on the sharp contrasts of an 18k white gold and ceramic construction. The specific architecture of the model is particularly adapted to combinations of different materials. In this instance, the two-tone case desig

Steve McQueen's vintage Heuer Monaco just sold for $799,500 - Monochrome Watches
Yes indeed, like the title says: Steve’s McQueen’s vintage Heuer Monaco was recently auctioned for $ 799.500 USD! An amount that might sound insane for some, others will think a price like this is more then justified. It just depends on how you look at it.Three years ago another vintage Heuer Monaco and a 5512, both owned McQueen, were sold for €?63.000 Euro (Heuer Monaco) and the 5512 sold for no less then € 167.000 Euro! Priced that cannot be justified by how rare these timepieces are, but mainly by the person who wore them. But with (possibly) 6 identified Heuer Monaco’s all owned by McQueen, is this price still sane? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Over at Chronocentric Onthedash, vintage Heuer expert and collector Jasper Bitter shares his knowledge about all six existing Heuer Monaco models he identified over the years. Although c

Hands-on with the Oris Aquis Date with a gradient blue dial - Specs & price - Monochrome-Watches
Apart from all those crazy, complicated, unaffordable watches, like the 420.000 Euros Breguet Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon or the Arnold & Son Constant Force, Baselworld also offers the chance to go over watches that we (meaning the normal people) can one day expect to have on the wrist, instead of just dreaming in front of it. After coming with a superb vintage-inspired Divers Sixty-Five, Oris also update one of its best sellers with a new dial. Here is the?Oris Aquis Date with a gradient blue dial. No bullshit, just a cool affordable tool watch.Of course we, at Monochrome-Watches, are all about a tourbillon, a constant force escapement or a crazy display. Those watches are dream-pieces, demonstration of a technical capacities and, unfortunately, timepieces that are more made to be posters in teenagers’ bedrooms than timepieces to be adorned on your roommate’s wrist. Of course, our goal here is to make you dream and to explain you the most complicated features