The Auction Hammer - The start of a new season - Monochrome Watches
Auction seasons has begun again after a brief summer recess. On September 14 Antiquorum auctions off 319 items in their New York auction. While going through their catalogue one cannot do anything else then to be surprised and wonder.for a wide variety of reasons.Take for example lot 13.?This features an IWC Aquatimer 2000 (ref. 3568) that was originally sold on May 20th?2011… One wonders how a watch that is less than 6 months old can be on auction so soon? Since Antiquorum rates the watch as very good' one can expect that it is slightly worn. With an estimate off? $2,000 - $3,000 USD this might be a nice opportunity to get this very young divers watch out of Schaffhausen for a sharp price. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Talking about estimates, sometimes utterly astonishment is an understatement when it comes to this topic. Lot 260 features a 2002 B

Summer is Coming - Our Selection of Sports-Chic Watches (buying guide with prices) - Monochrome Watches
Believe it or not (some of us in Europe still don’t believe in it… US seem better though) but summer is coming. For this reason, you’ll soon have to decide what watch to?bring in your luggage?for holidays (as you probably won’t bring your entire collection). Tough time, probably as difficult for you than it is difficult for your wife to decide what pair of shoes to bring. An easy solution could be a?dive watch but another one, that will probably be even better, is the sports-chic watch, one that is like a SUV – capable of an evening at the club, a nice seaside restaurant moment, a bit of yachting, some relaxing time at the pool… and always with style. Here is our buying guide for the best summer sports-chic watches.Rules of the selection: Price is not a criteria here, just a way to order the watches. A sports-chic watch has to be suitable in every possible situation during summer – and even during winter times, but this is not the point here. Y

Faberge Visionnaire Chronograph, with Revolutionary Movement by Agenhor (And the Best Video To Explain It) - Monochrome Watches
When you think Faberge, you hardly think about?watches. And even more, you hardly imagine a hyper-innovative chronograph movement, which in some ways revolutionizes centuries of stop watches… However that is exactly what Faberge introduces today: a movement with a brand new display, a brand new architecture and a brand new clutch, solving many of the traditional chronograph issues. Faberge’s new timepieces is a chronograph that displays the elapsed hours, minutes and seconds centrally, with the passage of ‘normal’ hours and minutes around it. Please welcome the?Faberge Visionnaire Chronograph, with revolutionary movement by Agenhor (and we found the best possible video to explain it – thanks TheWatchesTV.)The?Faberge Visionnaire Chronograph as a watchWithout degrading all other chronographs, it must be said that legibility of the new Faberge Visionnaire Chronograph beats most, not every (!!), other chronograph. The reason for this is the way the elapsed ti

Kickstarter Project: the Analog Watch Co Mason Watch - Solid Marble Timepiece - Monochrome Watches
The Analog Watch Co has just started a Kickstarter program to fund the launch of their newest timepiece. The Philadelphia-based watch company has already made a name with the Carpenter’s Watch, which is the world’s only wooden watch with a flexible wood band, and it’s a bestseller in the MoMA Design Stores. Now they’re coming with another “nature-inspired” timepiece, entirely made of marble, and called the Mason Watch.Analog Watch Co says that the Mason Watch is “the world’s first stone watch with a solid body and face made of real marble” and that could well be so. However we would like to treat you to?a short history lesson: in 1985 the Swiss brand Tissot first introduced a watch made in stone; it was crafted from a solid piece of Alpine granite rock. Tissot actually has some more ‘firsts’, like the IDEA 2001 (the world’s first plastic watch, introduced in 1971), the Pearl Watch (the world’s first (and only

Girard-Perregaux Traveller WW.TC Reviewed - Monochrome Watches
Shortly before Baselworld 2013 started, Girard-Perregaux introduced the new Traveller collection. This collection comprises the new Traveller Moon Phases and Large Date (what’s in a name) and the well-known WW.TC. The latter has been renamed to Traveler WW.TC (click here for the introduction). Maybe well-known, but the WW.TC is entirely re-designed and by that we mean not just a different dial color. With an entirely new case the Traveller WW.TC gains in usability and ergonomics. And visually it remains a very pleasing all-round office/leisure watch.Ever since Girard-Perregaux introduced the WW.TC – the name stands for World Wide Time Control – it has been a very successful model with a distinct design. It always featured a second crown, placed on the left side of the case, that served to rotate the worldtimer’s city disk. With the arrival of the new Traveller WW.TC, the essence of the WW.TC remains, however the recognizable crown on the left side has disappeare