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Watch Buying Guide 2014, the classics (specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
Recently, we showed you the novelties?you should really consider to buy in 2014. It included all the new models presented this year and that were for us, at Monochrome-Watches, already classics. Now, we would like to turn out to the real classics, the watches that could have been on your wrist 10 years ago and that will adorn it in the next 10 years too. The members of the Monochrome team sat down around the table and after long and passionate discussions, here is?the watch buying guide of the real timeless timepieces?to buy in 2014.Tissot Visodate 1957 Ad - Scroll to continue with article A lot of pleasure for the money. The Tissot Visodate brings a simple but reliable ETA movement with day and date features, together in?a 39mm case, very well made considering the price. Vintage style, automatic calibre, functional complications, Swiss made… A real good d
Introducing An Unexpected Tuscany Dial for the AP Code 11.59 Chronograph
Following the release of Audemars Piguet's first semester novelties for 2025, another less publicised model caught us by surprise. While ostensibly a Code 11.59 Chronograph in a two-tone blue ceramic and white gold case, this special edition strays from the collection's signature dials and incorporates a rare Tuscany dial in blue, something that will ring a bell with collectors.Accustomed as we are to AP's hallmark tapisserie dials and even the more recent embossed dial patterns of the Code 11.59 collection, a Tuscan Blue dial is a relatively rare sighting in AP's universe. Associated with Royal Oak Perpetual Calendars of the 1990s, the dials were originally hammered by hand, producing a grained, speckled surface that is rougher and less regular than one obtained with a machine. Last seen on the Royal Oak Jumbo 16202, the Tuscan dial reappears in 2025 on board the Code 11:59 Chronograph. Ad - Scroll to continue with article
Booze and Havana - 4 watches inspired by fine alcohols and cigars from Hublot, Zenith, Armin Strom and Speake-Marin - Monochrome Watches
Imagine yourself comfortably seated in antique leather Chesterfield sofa in a gentlemen’s club. What could be better, at such a moment, than enjoying a fine cigar and glass of old rum or cognac…? I can see some of you picturing this and already enjoying the very thought of it. It seems that amateurs of delightful booze and cigars?have taste for?fine crafts, and this of course includes high-end watches. Since a few months, we’ve seen several watches taking inspiration from cigars and alcohol, some as a partnership and some, even more interesting, including them into the watch. Here are?4 watches inspired by fine alcohols and cigars from Armin Strom, Hublot, Speake-Marin and Zenith.Zenith El Primero Chronomaster 1969 Cohiba EditionCohiba?is certainly amongst the most famous names in terms of fine cigars. Even if some of the production is widely available in street shops and duty-free airport boutiques, the Cuba-based brand (at the beginning only a few cigar-rollers work
Introducing the Glashutte Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date with the New In-House Calibre 37 - (LIVE photos & Pricing) - Monochrome Watches
Chronographs are certainly the most common complication in the watch industry, going from affordable luxury segment, such as Longines, to rugged toolwatches such as the Graham Chronofighter that we reviewed a few weeks ago or even highly complicated Haute Horlogerie timepieces like the new De Bethune DB27 Maxichrono. And to think of it, a mechanical chronograph is actually one of the most difficult complications! Yet, chronographs can be found in every segment, and in every style, even in the dress/classic style like Montblanc’s Heritage Pulsograph. At Baselworld 2014, Glashutte Original introduced an interesting chronograph in the dress/classic segment: meet the new Senator Chronograph Panorama Date.The new in-house Calibre 37Besides introducing the new Glashutte-Original Senator Chronograph PanoDate, we’re also introducing GO’s new in-house chronograph movement calibre 37-01. This movement is entirely designed, developed and manufactured in-house in Glashutte, Germ
British Watchmaking: Introducing the Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 (specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
England might not instantly leap out as a natural ancestral home for a new watchmaking company, but for Garrick and its owner David Brailsford, the location of its centre of operations was never in question. Watchmaking has a rich historical connection with England, and back when the foundations of the science were being established, the city of London was at the forefront of technical innovation in horology, and it is upon that history that the Garrick Watch company was conceived.For a new company to cite such horlogic legends as Arnold, Mudge, Harrisson, Graham and Tompion as its inspiration is an eyebrow raising way to make an entrance, but the new Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 watch and the approach to its creation make for an impressive statement of intent. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 is a fresh and confident debut from th
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