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Industry News: Watches and Wonders Geneva Announced for April 2024 With Focus on General Public
With nearly 50 brands exhibiting and 43,000 unique visitors (a 50% increase over 2022), the 2023 edition of Watches and Wonders Geneva has been a genuine success. This fair, the only one surviving after the death of Baselworld, has become an inescapable moment in the watchmaking calendar, with the participation of industry heavyweights (Richemont, LVMH, , Patek Philippe and more) and independent watchmakers. While the occurrence of the 2024 edition wasn’t even to be debated, we still don’t know who will leave or join the show. Still, we know the dates for Watches and Wonders Geneva 224, aso the fact that the Watches and Wonders Geneva Foundation wants to open its doors more to the general public.The upcoming edition of Watches and Wonders Geneva will be held from 9 to 15 April 2024 in Geneva’s Halles de Palexpo, as has been the case for most previous editions of the W&W and the SIHH (the name of the fair before brands like , Patek or Chopard, or the LVMH Group e
The best watches of 2010 - Monochrome Watches
Now the year has almost come to an end it’s time to look back and to see which watches made the best impression. So here is Monochrome’s selection of Best Watches of the Year 2010. Like every year, there where many new watches. Some expected for a long time, some unexpected and a total surprise. But the question is which one made a lasting impression? Some have only been released on the drawing board, but are not completely ready yet. These watches, although some are really impressive, won’t count for this years election.Because watches come in all price ranges I can’t compare a $500,000 watch with a $1,500 watch. So there will be a few categories, based on price. The first category is without any limits, the second category is up to $200,000 , the third category is up to $15,000 and the fourth and last category is below $5,000.?The only verdict is my personal opinion ?? Ad - Scroll to continue with article
Moon Landing 50 - The Other Watch of Apollo 11, The Mission Control Heuer Stopwatch
We know all about the Omega Speedmaster ‘Moonwatch’, as the first wristwatch on the Moon, which cemented its place in the history when the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the Lunar surface on the wrist of Buzz Aldrin. But there’s a little-known Heuer stopwatch that played a small but very important role when Neil Armstrong was piloting the lunar module Eagle to land on the Moon.The iconic image of Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, his Speedmaster Professional around his wrist… but this wasn’t the only timepiece involved in mission Apollo 11.Since the initial landing site was too cavernous and rocky, Armstrong had to manoeuvre the Eagle to a different location. This, in return, caused extra fuel to be used and it had reached critical levels. In the event of all fuel being used without a safe landing, an abort would have been necessary and thus no landing on the Moon would have been possible.Image from Mission Control – one of the flight contr
Richard Mille RM 61-01 Yohan Blake Limited Edition - Hands-on with live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches
SIHH 2015 was a ladies year for Richard Mille. The brand introduced one of the most impressive watches for women ever seen, the Richard Mille RM 19-02 Tourbillon Fleur with a flying tourbillon hidden in a flower – and that appears?every 5 minutes. However, in the crowd of flowers, diamonds and poetic feelings, there was another novelty at the SIHH that is more our material here, a new limited edition of Yohan Blakes’ watch, the full black edition of the?Richard Mille RM 61-01, a.k.a. ‘Baby Blake‘.Richard Mille is a real gentleman with its ambassadors. Not only he’s giving them watches but he mainly creates watches in limited editions for and with them. If some are only featuring some design clues, like the?Richard Mille RM 57-01 Tourbillon Phoenix and Dragon created for Jackie Chan, most of these special watches are made with a unique purpose, being the best possible ally of the ambassadors. Take a look at some of them:The RM 36-01 with mechanical G-force
Introducing the Blancpain Villeret Chronographe Pulsometre - Monochrome Watches
At the Baselworld watch fair, earlier this year, Blancpain introduced an new in-house chronograph movement, with a fly-back function and a silicon balance spring that vibrates at a high frequency of 5Hz or 36,000 vph. After introducing it in the Bathyscaphe Chronograph Flyback, Blancpain’s new in-house calibre F385 is now available in the classic looking Blancpain Villeret Chronographe Pulsometre. Despite its classic looks, Blancpain’s Villeret Chronographe Pulsometre comes in a rather large 43.6 mm red gold case. Its?cambered white Grand Feu enamel dial is surrounded by a pulsometer scale and features?enamel-painted Roman numerals, except at the 3 and 9 o’clock positions. The brand’s name and logo appear on the upper half of the dial, while the lower half features the date window and the connotation “Flyback”. Left and right of the centre are the chronograph 30-minute and 12-hour counters. Ad - Scroll to continue with article
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