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Blancpain Villeret Quantieme Perpetuel 6656 - A Classic among Classics, Modernised - Monochrome Watches
A classic among classics, the Le Brassus-based manufacture revisits its perpetual calendar complication with moon phases in 2018, in a larger 40mm case size and a choice of two metals: 18k red gold and stainless steel. With subtle design tweaks on the dial and a secured movement, the new Villeret Quantieme Perpetuel 6656 models are presented in a more contemporary case size and in a more democratic' choice of steel… Is Blancpain on the hunt for younger customers?Vive la Tradition: Calendar watches at BlancpainBlancpain has come a long way since it started life as a small craft workshop on the top floor of Jehan-Jacques Blancpain's house in Villeret, back in 1735. By the late 1950s Blancpain was producing more than 100,000 watches a year and to meet growing demand joined the Societe Suisse pour L'Industrie Horlogere (SSIH, later to become the Swatch Group) along with Omega, Tissot and Lemania. In the wake of the quartz crisis that decimated the Swiss mechanical watch market, SSIH
Tudor 2015 Novelties - Tudor Baselworld 2015 - The Tudor new watches we hope to see - Monochrome-Watches
Here at Monochrome-Watches, we have a special attraction for Tudor. We may love for its serious and highly qualitative creations, Tudor ( ’s sister company) created some interesting, affordable, very well finished and mainly, really cool watches recently – such as the Heritage Black Bay Blue, the Heritage Ranger or the Heritage Chrono. Thus, there was no reason for us not to try to predict what could be the Tudor 2015 new models, the watches that Tudor could introduce at Baselworld 2015. We did it for this year, we did it for Tudor last year, and we are doing?it again now.Last year, just like we did for and Omega, we tried to guess the watches that Tudor could introduce at the Basel watch fair. We imagined a Black Bay with a black bezel and dial and we also imagined a Pelagos with blue dial and bezel. Tudor came at Baselworld with the?Heritage Black Bay equipped with a superb midnight blue bezel insert and a cleaner dial. We had?the right colour, we had the right watc
Louis Erard Excellence Regulator Gradient Dials // Hands-On, Price
Louis Erard's Excellence collection is populated with regulators, a historic display that had fallen into disuse but that is becoming more and more prevalent in watchmaking today. Usually reinterpreted in classic design codes, Louis Erard is determined to show the regulator in a new light and has invited external designers to jazz things up. We've already seen Alain Silberstein's zany colourful Bauhaus take on the regulator and Eric Giroud's sleek minimalist contribution. Now it's time for the more classic Excellence Regulator model to get a makeover with the incorporation of gradient dials in three on-trend colours: green, blue and grey.Regulator clocksAlthough regulator clocks gradually faded into disuse, they were originally developed in the mid-18th century as master clocks to offer the most accurate time readings available. The distinctive feature of regulators was the separation of minutes, hours and seconds. The minutes became the true protagonists of the dial read with a large
Baume & Mercier Clifton Baumatic 5 Days / Chronometer, With The Brand's First Proprietary Movement (SIHH 2018) - Monochrome Watches
One of the sleeper hits of this year's SIHH might just come from an unexpected source. The new Clifton BaumaticTM from Baume & Mercier features a chronometer-certified proprietary movement, with a silicon hairspring and a comfortable 5-day power reserve. Soon to be available at a very competitive price, this could be the beginning of a whole new era for the brand. All the details below. ?Since its launch in 2012, the Clifton has grown to become Baume & Mercier's all-rounder collection. A step up from the entry-level Classsima range, it covers just about the entire scope of traditional (yet accessible) complications. Last year, for example, the brand introduced the attractive Baume & Mercier Clifton GMT Power Reserve, as well as the sporty Clifton Club series. In 2018, the brand is building on that foundation with the introduction of its first proprietary movement; the BaumaticTM BM12-1975A caliber.According to Baume & Mercier, developing its own mechanical movement has
Fratello x Louis Moinet Memoris Spirit 40 Chronograph L.E.
Fratello Watches, our fellow Dutch (in origin at least) watch platform, has once again presented a tantalising limited edition. Partnering with Louis Moinet, the inventor of the chronograph, Fratello chose to mix up the latest chapter in the brand’s long and record-setting lineage of the chronograph watch. From the very first to the very latest, the Memoris is kept alive, thanks to Jean-Marie Schaller, founder and owner of present-day Louis Moinet. With a subtle Dutch twist as the outcome, both teams worked together on a 25-piece run of watches called the Fratello x Louis Moinet Memoris Spirit 40 Chronograph Limited Edition.Louis Moinet is credited with the creation of the first-ever mechanical chronograph and high-frequency stopwatch in 1816. It has been verified by the Guinness World Records association and, to this day, serves as inspiration for Louis Moinet. The spirit of the historic monopusher chronograph is visible in the Memoris and Memoris Spirit collections, with a larg
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