Interview - Guy Bove On The New TAG Heuer Watches for 2022
Guy Bove has been the Creative Director of TAG Heuer for some three years now after working for several brands, including Breitling, the Chopard group and IWC… We took the opportunity of his presence at Watches and Wonders 2022 to sit down with him and learn more about the brand's latest creations.Xavier Markl, MONOCHROME – Guy, thanks for having us. What is the underlying theme for TAG Heuer at Watches and Wonders 2022? How is it translated into the brand's novelties? Ad - Scroll to continue with article Guy Bove, Creative Director of TAG Heuer – For 2022, we are working on three themes. One is innovation, one is quality, and the third is durability. In general, when you look at each model, you'll tend to see all three themes innovation on materials or on technology, quality where, hopefully, you'll notice that we are really working on creatin

Introducing: The Titanium IWC Pilot's Watch Mark XX Patrouille Suisse
Sitting alongside the very big Big Pilot (the real deal for many) and the less big Big Pilot 43 in the range of IWC’s Pilot watches, the Mark XX is the latest generation of a watch that is the true essence of a tool for aviators, in a reasonable size. A watch with great pedigree, which can trace its origins back to the Dirty Dozen and the early Mark series, it’s been modernized and updated over and over since the 1990s to become the current Mark XX, available up until now in stainless steel only. But today, IWC released what’s surely the best-looking version of the Pilot’s Watch Mark XX so far, a model paying tribute to the Patrouille Suisse. What matters? A full matte titanium case and a monochromatic look. And in the long Mark lineage, this should sound familiar…Discreetly presented in 2022, the IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XX is the latest version of a watch that has been available to the public since the early 1990s – with the Mark XII – bu

Hands-On Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep O-MegaSteel
As we've explained in the article talking about the titanium edition, Omega is releasing this year an ultra-dive watch, a model that summarizes everything the brand does best, mechanically and regarding resistance to all possible external elements. Based on the lessons learned with the Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional that reached the deepest point in the ocean during the Five Deeps Expedition to the Mariana Trench, Omega now releases what's basically a barely-downgraded version available for a wide audience, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep 6,000m. One of the toughest mechanical dive watches ever created (almost to prototype levels), it's also available as a complete collection of steel watches, but Omega being Omega, the R&D team decided that they needed a new steel alloy, and it's named O-MegaSteel.?Born in 1948, the Seamaster collection is surely the one that bears most of the brand's innovations. Looking at the recent history, the collection is now divided in 4

5 Watches with Unconventional Displays Launched this Year - Monochrome Watches
Creativity in watchmaking is key, with the business side of things sometimes taking a back seat. At least that's what we like to think every now and then. Regardless, there are some watchmakers out there, often independent ones, willing to push the envelope of how time is perceived and observed. Some of these literally put a face on time or pull off incredibly complex mechanisms just to entertain us. Here are some of the best recently introduced watches that get rid of traditional hands and offer an amazing array of unconventional displays.Konstantin Chaykin Minotaur Special Chinese New Year 2021Russian independent watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin is renowned for making incredibly complex and intriguing watches. Whether it’s something like the Cinema watch, playing an actual movie of a man riding a horse, or the?Genus Temporis,?where hours and minutes are indicated by the same hand, there's always something special going on. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano Burgundy
The Reverso is a watch of rare longevity. In fact, it is probably one of the watch models with the longest track record. The Reverso was created back in 1931 and since then, its unique concept of a reversible and protective case has been one of the pillars of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s success. As the Reverso approaches its 90th anniversary in 2021, the brand is bound to release several important new models. But before that, Jaeger-LeCoultre treats us to a reinterpretation of a classic, with the Reverso Tribute Duoface Fagliano Limited in a striking combination of pink gold and burgundy red.As Rebecca explained in a previous article on this icon of the watch industry: “The Reverso was LeCoultre's ingenious response to a request from British colonial army officers stationed in India. As keen polo players, they were constantly smashing the glass on their watches and jeopardizing the mechanism of their wristwatches during the brutal matches. In 1931, LeCoultre patented its reversible