Recap: The Best Of Colours During Watches & Wonders 2024 and The Geneva Week
While colours have always been part of brands’ collections, they have long been used mostly for the dials – and sometimes, but not always, for the straps… We’ve seen trends for blue or green dials in recent years, as well as a continuous love for salmon-toned watches and even purple making a discreet appearance. But this year, not only we’ve seen dozens of brightly coloured watches, but there’s more than just dials. Colours were everywhere… Unexpected ones mostly, but also in all sorts of watches and combined with textures. Another trend is clearly about colour-matching these coloured dials with the straps, or even using colours for the cases. Here are some of the most appealing and striking coloured watches we’ve seen during Watches & Wonders 2024 and The Geneva Watch Week.Cartier Santos-Dumont Lacquered PeacockFirst presented in 2022, the Santos-Dumont collection with lacquered cases made quite an impression… Available back th

The classical hand-wound Patek Philippe 5172G now with salmon pink dial
The classically styled Chronograph 5172G is one of the most beautiful chronograph watches from Patek Philippe, and perfectly showcases the Maison's capabilities in the field. It was presented in 2019 with a superb deep blue attire, but for Watches & Wonders 2022 Patek upped the ante once more with a luscious salmon-pink tone. Here's the Patek Philippe Chronograph 5172G.The hand-wound chronograph watch has always played a key role at Patek Philippe, and the 5172G is no exception to the rule. While the 5172G was a change from the classical Calatrava-style case of the 5170, it features the superb Art Deco style lugs from the 5320. This combination makes for one extremely attractive watch, especially in this salmon tone (a favourite among the MONOCHROME team). Ad - Scroll to continue with article On the specifications front, nothing has changed from the previous

Hands-On - Oris Big Crown Pointer Date 40mm Oxblood Red Dial (Specs & Price)
Oris expands its Big Crown Pointer Date collection with the incorporation of this model with an oxblood dial. An unusual colour that is rarely seen in watchmaking, we think it works extremely well in this context. The technical specifications, the styling of the 40mm steel model and even the price have not altered, but the intense, dark red dial proves that there is plenty of room for a bolder colour palette in the iconic Big Crown Pointer Date family.BackgroundLately, we've been covering a lot of Oris dive watches on MONOCHROME, in particular, the Aquis and Sixty-Five models, which are the stars of 2019. Well before Oris produced its first dive watch in 1965, the Swiss brand had made a name for itself with its Big Crown pilot's wristwatch of 1938. Fitted with an oversized crown for pilots to manipulate without having to remove their gloves, another key trait was the original date complication. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Weekly Watch Photo - Bremont North Sea Supermarine 500 - Monochrome Watches
Bremont has been launching several new limited editions lately, most of them haven’t been announced officially and will probably not be officially announced… except on the Bremont forum ALT1TUDE.?One of these watches is the North Sea SM500, a limited edition, which is by the way the first non-military special project from Bremont.?The North Sea SM500 is variation of the Bremont Supermarine 500 that we reviewed a while ago. A stunning dive watch with impressive specifications! Ad - Scroll to continue with article The North Sea SM500?is exclusively for pre-authorised North Sea Diver personnel only. So there’s no change for us mere mortals to get our hands on one and besides that the North Sea SM500 is sold out already. Maybe the only chance will be the second hand market. The Bremont forum ALT1TUDE has its own sales corner, which is actually quit

Introducing: The Fascinating yet Accessible SpaceOne Tellurium
Last year, the bold and ultra-modern SpaceOne Jumping Hour emerged from the visionary mind of Theo Auffret, a young Parisian independent watchmaker celebrated for crafting intricate timepieces like the Tourbillon Grand Sport?and Guillaume Laidet, the man spearheading the revival of Nivada, Excelsior Park and Vulcain. And it's now time for the duo to present its latest creation – helped with a third guy to the party – and it's a wrist-sized timing device showing the rotation of planets. Meet the SpaceOne Tellurium.The first creation of SpaceOne, resembling a sleek spacecraft, garnered significant attention with its futuristic design and a window revealing three concentric discs, indicating seconds at the centre, jumping hours in the middle, and minutes on the periphery. Backed by a good marketing campaign and proposed at a relatively affordable price point, the SpaceOne Jumping Hour, offered on the Kickstarter platform, swiftly sold out.The SpaceOne Jumping Hour by Theo Auff