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Hands-On Zenith Defy Fusee Tourbillon Carbon (Specs & Price)
Tradition meets innovation in this new Zenith Defy model with its dramatic setting to host two watchmaking classics: a fusee-and-chain escapement and a tourbillon. In keeping with the avant-garde spirit of the Defy family, Zenith stages the show in a gravity-defying, 3D, openworked setting that reveals absolutely everything. Available in full carbon or platinum cases, these limited editions are not for the faint of heart.Defiantly modernStaging a mechanism that was originally invented in the 15th century in a radically modern setting requires guts. It’s a bit like doing Shakespeare in space-age costume. Fusee-and-chain transmissions are extremely complex to manufacture, difficult to adjust, and for the most part, have become properly scarce. However, a few of the upper echelon brands, like A. Lange & Sohne, Romain Gauthier, Ferdinand Berthoud and Zenith's top-of-the-line Georges Favre-Jacot have resuscitated the fusee-and-chain transmission pulling off some of the most impres
Prospering In The Pandemic - 5 Brands That Made It Through The COVID-19 Outbreak - Monochrome Watches
2020 will be remembered as a traumatic year but also a turning point. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted virtually all aspects of human life. As far as the watch industry is concerned, it has been severely hit by the sanitary crisis. Swiss watch exports have seen a decline of 23.5% over the 11 first months of 2020. The pandemic is also a catalyst for monumental changes for the watch industry. Many will describe it as the steepest learning curve of their professional lives. With brands under pressure to make their business model fit the times, the pandemic has intensified the need to manage change, to quickly decide and act, and to be agile.Some brands simply seem immune to crisis and the industry is getting more and more polarized. Brands like , Patek Philippe, or Audemars Piguet still have many of their watches on long waiting lists. Some ‘established’ independent brands, for instance, F.P. Journe or MB&F, still see their products in high demand. Sadly, some brands w
My first love... Heuer - Monochrome Watches
I think every watch collector remembers that first watch that made an incredible impression. The watch was so beautiful and intriguing, you kept thinking about it. But why was it so expensive? Over the years i’ve had quite a few watches. Sometimes when i look at the photos of the watches that came and went away, i see how my taste for watches changed. It also makes me remember watches that used to be on my wish-list, that never made it to be part of my collection. With some of them i wonder what attracted me in these watches. But not with my first ‘real’ watch… my Heuer Autavia. Ad - Scroll to continue with article It was before my vacation to Vietnam. I planned to do a scuba dive course, stay some days in the jungle, 6 weeks traveling from south to north and back south again. And i really needed a watch that would be up for such a task.
First Look: The Cartier Tanka Guichets Watch is Back in 2025
Let’s push on several open doors… One, Cartier, the French jeweller-watchmaker, is the master of shaped watches. Second, Cartier’s most emblematic watch is, undoubtedly, the Tank. Third, there are actually dozens of Tank watches, and the depth of the collection goes far beyond the Tank LC and the Tank Normale. With this in mind, and knowing what Cartier has done recently with its Prive collection, you might have noticed that one of the most unconventional and yet iconic models is still missing. We’re, of course, talking about the Tanka Guichets, a watch that somehow feels part of the brand’s landscape while remaining pretty rare – it has only been sporadically produced. Welcome to Watches and Wonders 2025… The year the Tanka Guichets is back (once again).?A short historical recap about the Tank a GuichetsThe Cartier Tank is said to have been created in 1917, with a watch that would later be named the Tank Normale (to differentiate it from every
Introducing Ulysse Nardin Ocean Race Diver Chronograph Limited
The provenance of Ulysse Nardin might be a small, landlocked country, but thanks to its marine chronometers, the brand from Le Locle has always been closely associated with the sea since 1846. By the 1870s, Ulysse Nardin supplied more than 50 navies and merchant marine companies with precision marine deck chronometers. Today, the brand underscores its maritime credentials as the official timing partner of the exciting Ocean Race. Regarded as the longest (60,000 km) and toughest round-the-world team sailing challenge since 1973, the 14th edition of The Ocean Race kicked off in Alicante, Spain, in January 2023. Docking in nine cities around the globe over six months and finishing in Genoa in June, the teams have embarked on their fifth leg from Newport, Rhode Island, to Aarhus, Denmark. Taking advantage of the pit stop in Rhode Island and celebrating The Ocean Race’s 50th anniversary, Ulysse Nardin unveiled a 100-piece edition of its Ocean Race Diver Chronograph.The Ocean RaceOrigi
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