Portrait: Audemars Piguets New CEO Ilaria Resta Speaks About Her Arrival and the Future of AP
Five months in as CEO of one of the most luxurious watch brands, Audemars Piguet, Mrs Ilaria Resta offers her view on the current market and how she sees the future of the esteemed Le Brassus-based Maison.Dressed in a green suit with a 38mm purple dial Code 11:59 on the wrist, Italian-Swiss Ilaria Resta looks relaxed and concentrated when I meet her in the Armani Hotel in Milan. We are here for the opening of one of the most important AP houses, a novel retail concept by Audemars Piguet that already has 19 of its kind around the world.? Ad - Scroll to continue with article However, the Milan AP house, which is situated in the iconic parking house, Garage Traversi, on Via Bagutta that was in service from 1939-2003, is important as the first ideas of this new retailing concept were born in Milan in 2017 and have been replicated to all the AP houses. A concept that

It's February 29th And Here's All About Leap Year... And Perpetual Calendars
Every four years is a leap year and the month of February gets an extra day, a leap day, on February 29th. 2020 is a leap year and everything flows smoothly at regular, four-year intervals until 2100, which we discover is not a leap year. Wait a minute, 2100 is divisible by four, so what is going on? Find out why the leap year can be erratic and other intriguing details of how man has struggled to create a rational system that accurately reflects Earth’s rotations around the Sun and “fixed” astronomical events, such as the equinoxes and solstices.Inventing instruments to observe, measure and predict the motions of our universe has consumed astronomers since antiquity. Even if you don't have a telescope or a spectrograph in the spare room, most of us keep track of time with watches and calendars. These surprisingly complex mechanisms condense centuries of astronomic tinkering to account for the discrepancies between our computations and those of the universe. Since 158

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

Buying Guide - The 10 Best Watches of 2018 From EUR 2,000 To EUR 5,000
As the end of the year is fast approaching, it is time for us at MONOCHROME to take a look back at the main novelties of 2018 and to decide what were the best watches we’ve seen. As we did with our best watches below EUR 2,000, here’s our second buying guide, this time with the best watches of 2018 priced between EUR 2,000 and EUR 5,000. This has been a tough selection, as this category is crucial for luxury brands – there’s a huge amount of competition in this price range, as “accessible luxury” companies are fighting with entry-level models of more established names. But here are our Top 10, just to give you an idea of what you could get with your hard-earned money this year.Note: as always, these buying guides are our own personal selections and we're sure you'll have your own favourites. Feel free to list your top watches of 2018 in this 2k to 5k Euros category in the comment section at the end of this article!Brellum Pandial Chronometer Chronogr

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface (Specs & Price)
When you think Jaeger-LeCoultre, you immediately think Reverso. Thin, elegant, discreet and with the iconic reversible case. There had been some highly complex versions though in the collection, just like the?Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon for the 85th anniversary of the model or minute repeaters. Today, La Grande Maison is bringing back complexity in its emblematic watch, with a slim, visually clean and elegant tourbillon model, the?Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface.?To mark its 185th anniversary, Jaeger-LeCoultre is taking a new step in the Reverso line, with this new?Tribute Tourbillon Duoface, combining the double-dialled concept with a complex movement. Even though dubbed as a “tribute” piece, this watch is entirely new – design, concept, movement…?Equipped with a new manually-wound calibre, this timepiece is exclusive (only a few pieces, in platinum) and, as usual with Duoface pieces, has more to show than what you might see at first sigh