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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
IWC Big Pilot's Watch Big Date Bucherer BLUE IW5105 Introducing, Price
A little over two years ago, MONOCHROME covered the?Portugieser Chronograph Classic Bucherer BLUE – a red gold model with a blue dial, but other than that, an identical base design of IWC Schaffhausen's Ref. 3904 made in 2013. Fast-forward to last year and we reviewed the IWC Portugieser Chronograph Bucherer BLUE, another collaborative effort between the Swiss watchmaker and the world's largest watch retailer. To mark its fourth anniversary with the aviation watch specialist, Bucherer launches a timepiece that draws from IWC's Big Pilot's Watch collection for the very first time. Of course, it also features Bucherer's signature blue colour on its dial. The IWC Big Pilot's Watch Big Date Bucherer BLUE, limited to just 100 pieces worldwide, is also the first partnership edition to feature a big date complication on its dial.This new IWC Big Pilot's Watch should certainly appeal to collectors of Bucherer's BLUE lifestyle collection (which has celebrated partnering with some of the w
Face to Face with Omega: A Tour Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Company - Part 1 - Monochrome Watches
Baselworld is complete madness. It's difficult to comprehend the sheer size of the fair when you hear it from someone, and it’s a totally different thing to experience it personally. This year the Monochrome team cunningly decided to split forces and covered almost everything with battle hardened Frank accompanied by Brice and Robin. My role was to dig a little deeper. Taking advantage of my free role assigned by the Mono-HQ I decided to cover one of the most important players in the Swiss horological industry, Omega. Sure, it's very nice to cover the new releases and the hottest offerings in Baselworld but it's also extremely satisfactory to be able to lay back and visit key installations that reveal to me the past, present and a glimpse of the near future. So, sit back and enjoy the tour.¦¸ The BrandA Few Words About Its Course Through TimeMany and rightly so, consider Omega one of the most important players in the industry. During the 20th Century many important people from all
Interview with Daniel Riedo - Jaeger-LeCoultre's CEO - Monochrome Watches
Jaeger-LeCoultre just opened their first boutique in Amsterdam, beautifully located at the “Golden Half Mile.” This is the new nickname for the Pieter Cornelisz. Hooftstraat (short: the PC), Amsterdam's luxury shopping street, which is just around the corner from Amsterdam's most important, and recently renovated and re-opened, musea. Daniel Riedo, Jaeger-LeCoultre's new CEO, was in Amsterdam for the occasion and we sat down with him to talk about the brand, the strategy and what we can expect from them in the coming years. Be prepared for an entirely new collection!Daniel Riedo, Carice van Houten and Benno Leeser – by Francois Durand (Getty Images)However before Daniel Riedo tells us about an entirely new collection and what kind of novelties we could expect from Jaeger-LeCoultre in the coming years, we asked him about his new role within the manufacture. And of course we had a look at the watch he was wearing that day. Until June 2013?Daniel?Riedo was more internall
Baselworld 2019 - Zenith Defy Inventor (Live Pics, Video, Specs & Price)
More than three centuries after the invention of the sprung balance (by Hooke/Huygens), the oscillator is back in the limelight. Exploring new frontier and technological breakthroughs in mechanical watchmaking, the oscillator is considered the crowning glory for the most inventive and skillful watchmakers. Just a few days after the presentation of the Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt (still a concept watch) and its innovative 3D suspended oscillator, Zenith returns with the commercial version of the revolutionary Defy Lab Meet the Zenith Defy Inventor.The way watches and clocks are regulated has not changed for centuries. The sprung balance has been the exclusive time basis for the mechanical watch. Paced by a thin coiled spring, the oscillations of the balance wheel control the speed at which the gears of the watch rotate and thus its rate. The sprung balance has been optimized to the greatest possible extent but its principle remained unchanged – until very recently. Ad - Sc
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