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SIHH 2015 - Baume & Mercier Classima - Hands-On with live photos, specs and price - Monochrome-Watches
Baume & Mercier is known for its simple, elegant and?interesting offer. Especially made to be gifted – to celebrate a graduation, a success or any nice event of a life – they are perfect daily watches for those who just want a reliable and pleasant companion. One of the collections is truly inspired by this concept. It’s called the Baume & Mercier Classima and for the SIHH 2015, it receives?a interesting?update.?Compared to the rest of the brand owned by the Richemont Group (that also holds Lange & Sohne, Jaeger-Lecoultre or IWC), Baume & Mercier could?be seen mainly as the entry-level brand. For sure, if you look at the rest of the Richemont portfolio, B&M is far from the crowd of ultra-complicated and highly-priced watches. However, Baume & Mercier should not be relegated to a low-end status. It offers the opportunity to enter the world of classic, timeless and elegant watches for a reasonable price and answers to a demand of timepieces made
Buying Guide - The New Luxury Sports Watches of 2019
The Luxury Sports Watch category is dominated by iconic classics such as the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and the Patek Philippe Nautilus - two watches that defined the genre back in the 1970s. It is also one of the most successful categories these days, with these two models being almost impossible to find at retailers. We all know that patience is a virtue, but when it comes to waiting years for your Nautilus 5711, this can become downright maddening. If you are sick of waiting or not ready to pay an insane premium on the secondary market, the good news is that there are cool alternatives out there. Don't want to pay an insane premium or be on an 8-year-long waiting list? Here are some new alternatives.Almost all the brands in the luxury or high-end field have recently designed watches that fit in this category, and 2019 has got its share of new launches too. Here are four brand new takes on the Luxury Sports Watch genre - watches that are not just substitutes but excellent options with
Introducing: The New Matte Blue Ceramic Chanel J12 Bleu Collection
Twenty-five years ago, Chanel launched the J12 in black ceramic. Although brands like Rado and IWC had already produced ceramic watches, Chanel's watch transformed ceramic into a precious material. An immediate hit, another unique facet of the watch was its unisex appeal. Designed by Chanel's former artistic director Jacques Helleu, the sleek, dark, sporty J12 was followed up with an all-white ceramic J12 in 2003. Following Chanel's acquisition of a stake in the Swiss Kenissi manufacture, the French fashion house powers its time-only J12s with its proprietary automatic COSC-certified calibre 12.1. Often considered the most influential fashion watch, the J12 celebrates its quarter-century of life as the new J12 Bleu hits the catwalk with a matte blue ceramic ensemble.High-tech ceramic offers wearers many advantages thanks to its scratch-resistant, lightweight, silky smooth, and hypoallergenic properties, but it isn’t easy to produce and confect in homogenous colours. It took five
The Omega Co-Axial Escapement Fully Explained - Monochrome Watches
The watchmaking industry is never short of innovations. Whether in the field of materials, movement architectures, displays or regulating organs, this industry never ceases to amaze with technical solutions to improve the accuracy of our beloved mechanical watches. However, when it comes to production at an industrial level, innovation is far more scarce. If you think about it, the escapement of our watches, the lever escapement (which is used by 99% of the mechanical movements) was conceived in 1750… However, there’s one man, and one brand, that believed in changing this situation, by launching the only escapement produced on an industrial scale other than the Swiss lever escapement. This is the story of the Co-Axial escapement, how Omega adopted it, and how it works.Challenging a system that is as accepted as the Swiss lever takes more than just a spirit of innovation. It takes conviction, it takes devotion and it takes time. This is exactly what happened to master watchm
Omega Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Speedmaster in London - Monochrome Watches
Last week I had the privilege of attending the 60th anniversary festivities that Omega organized for the Speedmaster. The event, and everything around it, was nothing short of being absolutely awesome. Watches and anniversaries always stir up some emotions, and one could question whether the watches that are often discussed in this way, actually are icons. According to marketeers there are many iconic watches, however, and I hope you will forgive me, I think there are only a handful of true icons. I consider John Harris’ marine chronometers of absolute importance and iconic. I also think that the Omega Speedmaster reached an equally important, and iconic, status. It?went to the moon and back, and was actually used for timing purposes on the face of the moon. The Omega Speedmaster is certainly one of the few real icons in the world of watchmaking, as it actually served in events that are greater than life. Here’s a very visual report (in the early days of internet we would c
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