Buying Guide - 5 Luxury Sports Watches With Micro-Rotor Movements
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo and the Patek Philippe Nautilus seem just unobtainable these days… the luxury sports watch is one of the most sought-after categories today if not the hottest. The archetype is straightforward: match a sporty but clearly expensively-crafted steel watch with an integrated bracelet and an automatic, ultra-thin calibre. Casual elegance to its maximum. In this respect, micro-rotor calibres – a great way of saving height in a movement, but also exposing more of these beautifully executed mechanics – can be an especially relevant and elegant option. We meet the burden of proof with 5 of the best luxury sports watches equipped with a micro-rotor movement.?Bulgari Octo Finissimo AutomaticIn a record span of just ten years, the bold contemporary Italian design and sophisticated ultra-thin Swiss mechanics of Bulgaris Octo family have consecrated it as a modern watchmaking icon. Thanks to its BVL138 micro-rotor movement, the Octo Finissimo Aut

Introducing: The White Dial Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional
You've probably already seen that watch But up until today, it was not officially there. For decades, besides special and limited editions, the Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch in stainless steel has primarily flaunted a black dial watch. Yet, at an event hosted by Omega in November last year, Daniel Craig, whom we are more accustomed to seeing wearing a Seamaster when portraying James Bond, was spotted wearing something special An unprecedented version of the classic Moonwatch with a light-coloured dial. And no, this wasn't the silver dial of the Canopus Gold Moonwatch. It had to be steel. And here it is confirmed, with the introduction as part of the permanent collection of a lacquered white dial Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional.? A full-white dial Speedmaster Moonwatch isn't something that common. Look closely, and you won't find anything of the sort, at least in the standard collection. There have been some white dial special, commemorative, regional or l

News: Antonio Calce named CEO of Sowind Group (Girard-Perregaux & JeanRichard) - Monochrome-Watches
The game of musical chairs is not over. For the past months, the watch industry was the field of?multiple departures and appointments, including at the giants like and?TAG Heuer. It is now time for Sowind, the mother company of Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard, to finally appoint a new CEO. Just before Baselworld, the arrival of Antonio Calce should be seen as a?deliverance for the brands, which have been without a CEO for more than four months.With?the arrival of?Jean-Frederic Dufour as new CEO of ,?and of Jean-Claude Biver as CEO of all watch brands of the LVMH Group (see here) and now also CEO of TAG Heuer, after Stephane Linder’s?resignation, the watch industry was extremely active in changing its leaders. Should it be seen as a sign of an active and creative industry that wants to innovate and modernize?or as a last resort?reaction against a complicated market? Time will tell us. Today, our focus is on a brand that we, at Monochrome-Watches, really love: the manufacture G

A New Face for Time, Interview with the duo at the helm of Genus Watches
Genus appeared on the independent watchmaking scene in 2019 with the GNS 1.2 WG. A watch in a class of its own, the GNS 1.2 is technically complex and features one of the most fascinating time displays we have seen recently. This radical creation received a well-deserved industry accolade with the 2019 Mechanical Exception Prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve. We hit the road to meet the co-founders of the brand, Catherine Henry and Sebastien Billieres.No hands, no dial… time has a different face at Genus. Twelve satellites rotating at the periphery of the watch show the hours, orienting themselves in an upright position as they travel and get ever-closer to the fixed hour pointer at 9 o'clock. The tens-of-minutes are shown by a mechanical centipede crawling over and around two 30-minute circulating wheels. Last, the precise minutes are displayed at 3 o'clock thanks to a fixed index and rotating disk. Independent watchmaking as we like it: radical, creative,

Introducing: The Tudor Black Bay Pro GMT Polar White dial
In 2022, we went as far as to consider the Tudor Black Bay Pro GMT the best tool watch we have seen that year, impressed by its cool design, ultra-robust construction and fair price. A perfect adventure watch, solid and legible, with a GMT complication for travellers - a do-it-all, wear-it-everywhere. This year, this Tudor model that does bear some resemblance to the Explorer II gets a polar dial, and that’s the news.The new version comes in the same 39mm case as the earlier reference, crafted from stainless steel with polished and satin-finished surfaces, waterproof to 200m, with a 24-hour fixed bezel, satin-brushed. The screw-down crown bears the Tudor rose logo, the domed sapphire crystal tops the case and the caseback is solid. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The domed opaline dial features applied ceramic hour indices with