Buying Guide - Alternatives to These Hyped Watches You Actually Can't Find (Or Only At Premium)
As you’ve probably seen already, our three previous buying guides focused on a highly discussed topic; the most sought-after watches produced by , Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet – which basically boils down to talking about the Daytona, the GMT-Master, the Nautilus and the Royal Oak. Our goal was never to promote this speculative market and to encourage you to buy these watches at a premium, but to warn our readers and to give them an objective, realistic view of the situation of today’s market. Now, it’s time to look at great alternatives to these hyped watches – because, indeed, the watch industry has many great timepieces to offer. Before even considering to go to a watch dealer (official boutique, authorized retailer or second-hand seller) to check about availability and prices – as you might very well be aware of the shortage, market prices and premiums – you have to ask yourself why you are even considering add

Summer is Coming - Our Selection of Sports-Chic Watches (buying guide with prices) - Monochrome Watches
Believe it or not (some of us in Europe still don’t believe in it… US seem better though) but summer is coming. For this reason, you’ll soon have to decide what watch to?bring in your luggage?for holidays (as you probably won’t bring your entire collection). Tough time, probably as difficult for you than it is difficult for your wife to decide what pair of shoes to bring. An easy solution could be a?dive watch but another one, that will probably be even better, is the sports-chic watch, one that is like a SUV – capable of an evening at the club, a nice seaside restaurant moment, a bit of yachting, some relaxing time at the pool… and always with style. Here is our buying guide for the best summer sports-chic watches.Rules of the selection: Price is not a criteria here, just a way to order the watches. A sports-chic watch has to be suitable in every possible situation during summer – and even during winter times, but this is not the point here. Y

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Hybris Artistica Calibre 945
Jaeger-LeCoultre has long invested in highly complicated celestial complications. Over the years, we’ve seen many extremely appealing, complex and rather artistic expressions of watches displaying sideral time or star maps. Today, as part of the collection presented for Watches & Wonders Geneva 2022, the brand reinterprets one of its most fascinating movements, the Calibre 945, a minute repeater with Cosmotourbillon and celestial complications, with two new watches that display the brand’s mastery of decorative crafts. Here are the two new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Hybris Artistica Calibre 945.Launched in 2010, the Calibre 945 is one of the most complex movements in Jaeger-LeCoultre’s extensive portfolio. This high-end movement unites a sky chart with a celestial vault, a zodiacal calendar and a minute repeater and is further elevated by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Cosmotourbillon – a celestial flying tourbillon that not only serves as a regulating organ but also

Hands-on - Anonimo Nautilo Bronze Blue dial (live pics & price) - Monochrome Watches
Anonimo is a brand that is most known for their dive watches. In the last few years, they have been producing, for example, the well-known Millimetri, which is waterproof to 1,000 meters, or the Polluce, another example of reliable and functional diving tool. Nowadays, Anonimo is refocusing the collections mainly on two references;?the Militare and the Nautilo watches. With this new focus in mind, let's find out what the latter is about, by looking closer to the Anonimo Nautilo Bronze.As we discussed earlier in this article about the Anonimo Militare VanDucth,?Anonimo is a brand with a rather unique story. One interesting fact is that, when looking at the history of the brand and see what really is typical for Anonimo; we can recognize that the Nautilo exposes quite a few of these characteristics. Ad - Scroll to continue with article A true AnonimoLooking at the

Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80 Open Heart (Specs & Price)
Skeleton or openworked watches have always enjoyed certain popularity and range from anything ultra high-end to accessible watches. There’s something specifically appealing in discovering what’s beating inside a watch (even more for newcomers to mechanical watches), yet entirely opened dials can result in cluttered displays. For this reason, there’s a kind of watch that sits right in the middle, often referred to as “open heart” models, with only the brain of the watch exposed on the dial. Using the successful Gentleman Powermatic 80 as a base, Tissot is now releasing a new edition that does exactly that.?The Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80, a watch that we’ve extensively reviewed here and also filmed, can easily be considered one of the best offerings for an all-rounder, rather elegant and yet robust watch in the EUR sub-1000 category. Nicely proportioned and quite elegant overall for business use, resistant enough for the weekend too, very well equi