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The 2022 Audemars Piguet Ceramic Complication Watches
Audemars Piguet has long demonstrated its ability to break the rules of classic haute horlogerie, using traditional complications and high-end, hand-finished movements of the highest level and encasing them in bold, polarising watches with a genuine contemporary approach to design. Today, the Le Brassus-based manufacturer presents a new collection that pushes the concept even further, using coloured ceramics to create contrast and to emphasise their bold designs. From a full-blue ceramic RO Perpetual Calendar to a futuristic green-toned ROC and no fewer than three different highly complex Code 11.59 models, they all show impressive modernity and yet respect for the high-end watchmaking we’ve come to love.?The Full-Blue Ceramic Royal Oak Perpetual CalendarThe first in line in this new sub-collection of high-end ceramic watches is a bold one. A truly surprising and polarising watch with an unmistakable colour. Indeed, Audemars Piguet presents a new version of its Royal Oak Perpetua
Reservoir Supercharged Sport Jumping Hours/Retrograde Minutes Display (Specs & Price)
It is not the first time we talk about Reservoir Watches, a young brand that has made a name for itself with its cool, well-designed, original watches. Here, at MONOCHROME, we love the beauty of mechanics and novel ways of telling the time – and this Reservoir model, with its jumping hours and?retrograde minutes, satisfies us on both levels. But it also comes with a very attractive price tag…So, let’s invest in some quality time with the Reservoir Supercharged Sport.The combination of?jumping hours with retrograde minutes isn’t new. Some will remember Gerald Genta’s watches or more recently the Bvlgari Octo Retro watches. The main difference between the Reservoir and these watches lies in its price. While you’ll have to have a solid 5-digit amount of change in your pocket at Bvlgari, the Reservoir is priced below EUR 4,000 – a price range where you’d usually find jumping-hour-only watches, with a?normal?minute hand (for instance,?Meisters
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
Introducing the Halda Race Pilot - Monochrome Watches
What is the ultimate racing watch? What defines a racing-timepiece? Is it a necessity to be race-inspired in design or does it have to offer usability as well? It is probable that timepieces like the Chopard Mille Miglia, or TAG Heuer Monaco come to mind. Other than perhaps a chronograph, the usability during racing is limited. There is an alternative though, and it comes from Sweden, a country with a surprising rich history in racing and watchmaking: the Halda Race Pilot. We've spent some time hands-on with it, and share our experience in this full review.Sweden has been the host of an official Grand Prix between 1933 and 1967 and an FIA Formula One Championship race, at Anderstorp, between 1973 and 1978. Although no longer present on the FIA F1 calendar, it marked an important moment in F1 racing as it was home to the first and only win by a six-wheeled car, with Jody Schekter at the wheel of the Tyrrell P34. Furthermore, Sweden has been on the FIA World Rally Championship calendar e
Advanced Technology Meets Tradition: 3 new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph Special Editions at Goodwood with the new in-house 69370 movement - Monochrome Watches
The 74th edition of the Goodwood Member Meeting marks the rebirth of the classic Ingenieur design in three special editions of the Ingenieur Chronograph. The new IWC Ingenieur Chronograph features?the new in-house calibre 69370, and will be launched at the 74th edition of the Goodwood Member Meeting.ENGINEERS OF TIME”The history of the IWC Ingenieur watches as described in the book IWC Schaffhausen engineering Time since 1868 by Fritz, Coelho, and Bilal starts with this phrase. Engineers were highly regarded back in the 1950s, so IWC named an entire watch family after them, as a tribute to invention, performance and technological advancement. The evolution of the watch via continuous improvement between the mid fifties until the mid eighties embodies the engineering spirit of the company. The Classic Ingenieur movement did go through various cycles. It started with a calibre 852, then a 853(1) and last-but-not-least, the cal. 854(1). The latter has remained a engineering highligh
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