Buying Guide - 5 Watches That Break The Silence, On Demand!
With a complication originally born out of necessity yet now regarded as one of the ultimate expressions of mechanical watchmaking, the watches in today’s Buying Guide do more than just tell time. Each and every one of them is a wrist-worn mechanical masterpiece in some form, from the very refined to the boldly extravagant. The connection between the five? Besides ultra-complex movements, exotic materials and monumental price tags, they are united by their ability to produce sound! That’s right, today’s selection of watches all have a chiming mechanism of some sort on board!A. Lange & Sohne Richard Lange Minute RepeaterWhen A. Lange & Sohne introduced the Richard Lange Minute Repeater during Watches & Wonders 2022, it instantly struck a chord with us. It is a very fitting expression of refinement on one hand and Lange’s mechanical prowess on the other. At first glance, the 39mm wide and 9.7mm thin watch looks like a very classical dress watch, but th

Buying Guide - 5 High-End Watches with World-Time or Multiple Time-Zones
A watch is an essential item while travelling. An essential item on your “things to pack” list. We've said it already several times here on MONOCHROME, but multiple time zone watches are certainly amongst the most practical you can find. Not only when travelling (obviously) but also for those working in an international environment - and there are more and more of them. For those who want to combine functionality and their love for fine watchmaking, here are 5 sophisticated watches with world time complications or multiple time zone indications.A Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Time ZoneBased on the iconic Lange 1, the A. Lange & Sohne TimeZone features a multitude of sub-dials and no fewer than nine hands and indicators. The main dial at 9 o'clock displays the home time with 24-hour indication and a subsidiary small seconds. The 5 o'clock sub-dial shows a second time-zone and the corresponding city on the outer ring, as well as its own 24-hour indicator. The 8 oclock pusher

First Look: Hublot Unveils Magic Ceramic, Claimed to be the World's First Multicoloured Ceramic
When it comes to ceramic watches, Hublot has, over the years, managed to be one of the most creative brands by achieving cases and parts in the brightest possible colours imaginable (green, orange, light blue, yellow, sand…) Obtaining strong colours on ceramic is more difficult than many imagine, the base material – ZrO2 Zirconium Oxide – is white and must be combined with metallic oxides to reveal its colour – and often, colours become pale. For over 10 years, after mastering monochromatic tones, Hublot has been working internally on the next phase, which will be associated with the 20th anniversary of the Big Bang; multi-coloured ceramic, as a solid, homogeneous material, which is claimed by the brand to be a world’s first. It’s named Magic Ceramic and it’s released in a 20-piece Big Bang Unico limited edition.?The famous two-tone “Pepsi” bezel of on the GMT-Master II, with two colours on the ceramic insertBefore we look at what

Introducing: The Oris Divers Sixty-Five Cotton Candy, Now In Stainless Steel
When Oris released a Divers Sixty-Five series with surprisingly bright-coloured dials a couple of years ago, it hit the right note, and the pink, light blue and green bronze models became successful and are still very much in trend. A year later, in 2022, the watchmaker from Holstein added equally bright-coloured Perlon straps to the assortment (first Cotton Candy Divers were offered on a multi-piece bronze metal bracelet or a leather strap), and it was only a question of time before we would see a stainless-steel version. Bronze and its patina have a great fan base, sure, but steel still rules, and we welcome the new stainless steel Divers Sixty-Five Cotton Candy references by Oris, just in time for summer.Inspired by the iconic Oris dive watch of the 1960s, the Oris Divers Sixty-Five collection combines vintage dive watch aesthetics with a modern touch. Until the Cotton Candy series, this collection evoked a sense of nostalgia and adventure. Fun, too, but never so sweet. While the Di

Aramar Walrus, Dutch 1970s Dive Watch on Kickstarter / Specs & Price
If you are looking for a vintage-inspired dive watch, the world is your playground. Especially since ambitious young watchmakers and marketeers heard about Kickstarter, new watch companies with old watches keep on popping up. One of the first out there was Aramar Watch Company, founded in 2010 with Kickstarter-funding and a nice vintage-inspired watch. Now, it’s back with a dive watch. Meet the Aramar Walrus. Once upon a long, long time ago, the Royal Netherlands Navy reigned the seas. Nowadays, it has only a handful of vessels and four submarines of one single class called De Walrus. Why exactly it is named after a fat and not-too-good-looking mammal that doesn't live anywhere near the Dutch coasts is not entirely clear, though. Neither is the real function of these subs, as the Dutch government very rarely discloses their locations. Supposedly, they spend most of their time on peace missions or on drug hunts (although you don't need a submarine for that -