Watches NEWS
Review of the new Montblanc 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter with Villeret Chronograph Monopusher (live photos, specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
Splendid! Let's be?clear from the beginning, this new watch from Montblanc is just splendid. Design-wise, MB again did a great job with the design of the new chronograph. It is vintage-inspired, beautifully balanced, luxurious yet sporty at the same time, elegant - and unfortunately limited to a very small production. We would already be very happy with only this, however there's more, much more: the movement, calibre MB 16.29, is one of the nicest chronograph movements available on the market today. The new?Montblanc 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter is comes with this stunning Minerva calibre MB 16.29?monopusher movement. And you'll see, the devil is in the details.Excuse this?burst of enthusiasm, but here, at Monochrome-Watches, we have a thing for the Montblanc Villeret Chronographs. Throwback… 2006, the Richmont Group takes over an antique and iconic name: the Manufacture Minerva, famous for their chronograph movements, including the legendary 13-20 CH. 2007, Richemont Group affec
News: IWC Ceralume, The First Fully Luminous Ceramic Watch
The use of luminescent materials on watches is far from new… Soon after the discovery of radium and its properties (and dangers…) by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, watch dials – markers, numerals and hands – have been coated with radium and then different substances (tritium, Super-LumiNova) to produce light in the dark. Fully luminous watch dials are a far more recent trend, and fully luminous watch cases are still a rarity that we only covered twice in this magazine – with Bell & Ross and Tockr. IWC, which has already shown its appeal for lume, now unveils Ceralume, a proprietary luminous ceramic technology and the first fully luminous ceramic watch… But don’t get crazy too soon, it is still a concept and isn’t commercialized.While the idea of a fully luminous watch case isn’t new, the difference with IWC is that the brand’s engineering division XPL has developed an unprecedented luminous ceramic compound – Bell &
2020 IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph IW3907 (Specs & Price)
A decade after its maiden voyage, the third-generation Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph (Ref. 3907) sails into port. The novelties are a larger case size, the relocation of the date window, some fine-tuning on the dial and a new metal bracelet. Still ticking to the tune of in-house automatic calibre 89361 with a flyback function and a unique chronograph display using one dial to indicate elapsed hours and minutes, the IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph comes in three iterations. The sportiest of the Portugieser family, the latest revamp of the Yacht Club has notched up the dress factor of the watch considerably. Just ahead of the official Watches & Wonders digital launch, we were able to spend some time with these three models.Brief History of the Yacht ClubThe Yacht Club, as we know it today, made its debut in 2010. However, there was a 1967 Yacht Club antecedent. This first Yacht Club (Ref. 811) was a three-hand and date model with an extremely robust shock-absorption syste
Hands-On - The IWC Pilots Watch MARK XVIII Edition Antoine De Saint Exupery - Monochrome Watches
Today, we are going hands on with a special edition of possibly one of the most legendary pilot's watches of all time, or at the very least, one of the latest versions of it. Officially unveiled a few months ago, the IWC Pilot's Watch MARK XVIII Edition Antoine De Saint Exupery marks another addition to a long-line of military inspired models. It's not a new watch as such, but rather part of an update to the existing Antoine De Saint Exupery line, which includes two other models (a chronograph and a 36mm automatic ladies model). Like the standard Mark XVIII, it's nicely sized at 40mm and features a third-party movement to keep the price down. Read on for the details and of course, some nice live photos.IWC launched its very first pilot's watch, the Special Watch for Pilot's, all the way back in 1936. It was intended for civil aviation use and was very characteristic of the style at the time, with large, luminous Arabic numerals and a subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock. Arguably thoug
Daniel Craig to wear an Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial on striped NATO Strap in James Bond 007 Spectre - Monochrome-Watches
You hear that unmistakable?music, you see the twisted barrel of a gun appearing, a man takes place in the middle of it and then comes the brutal sound of a gunshot. Yes, you’re watching at James Bond 007. Ok, even if we’re big fans of the 007 movies here, we’re also watch guys and, for this simple reason, knowing what James Bond will wear in the next episode of his adventures is always exciting – and now we know that?Daniel Craig is about to wear an Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial on striped NATO Strap in James Bond 007 Spectre (not official but 100% sure).James Bond 007 and watches always had a strong?link. In each 007?movie, the ‘so-British‘ secret?agent wears a specific watch – and these timepieces are fully part of the story. For Ian Fleming – author of James Bond – watches are part of the equipment of 007 and those are used not only as timekeeping objects but filed with all sorts of gadgets. Everything started in 1962, as S
[Rating:(5 / 5 stars)]
