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Introducing the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Laptimer Michael Schumacher (Specs & Price) - Monochrome-Watches
The Royal Oak Concept is a playfield for Audemars Piguet. The brand from Le Brassus uses this watch for their most complicated and most innovative movements. They recently introduced their own interpretation of what could be the best minute repeater;?Royal Oak Concept RD1 Acoustic Research Minute Repeater. Now it’s time to move to another complication, the chronograph – and the watch they now introduce could possibly be the ultimate racing chronograph. Here is the?Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Laptimer Michael Schumacher.Before we start to explain this watch, and in order to prevent any bad comments, we want to make clear that, even considering the actual condition of Michael Schumacher,?this watch had been developed together with him before?his accident and is now launched?with the agreement of the family. We’re not going to discuss about this here but we’ll only focus on this impressive piece of horology.In?2010, Audemars Piguet teamed up with F1 legend?Mi
Five watches presented this year that shows it's hip to be square
Heuy Lewis & The News sang “It’s Hip To Be Square” in their hit song from 1986 and in watches, you could kind of say the same. Amongst watches, square ones always tend to stand out a bit more, and few have even stood the test of time and earned the status of horological icon. Watches like the TAG Heuer Monaco or Cartier Santos need little introduction, really. But more recent offerings tend to tap into the same group of possible clientele that’s into square-shaped watches. And to be honest, I have two on my personal wishlist as well. there’s just something unique about having a square watch on the wrist. So with that in mind, we’re taking a closer look at 5 new watches with a square(-ish) case!TAG Heuer Monaco Purple EditionArguably one of the most famous square watches available, the TAG Heuer Monaco has become an icon thanks to a brilliant marketing ploy by Jack Heuer, using the Monaco Grand Prix and Steve McQueen to make it beyond cool. Many i
Weekly Watch Photo - The Eadweard Muybridge Cinema Watch by Konstantin Chaykin - Monochrome Watches
Just the other day we bumped into the brilliant photo of Konstantin Chaykin’s Cinema Watch. When we told you about this watch before (click here) we told you our first impression was that it had of the shape and layout of a medium-format camera. So what better photo to start our Weekly Watch Photo with.Of course we already told you more about the Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin. Our man in Shanghai, Mario?Squillacioti, met up with Konstatin during the AHCI event in his home town and sat down for a good talk. The result is a great overview of Konstantin’s creations (click here). And of course we told you about the Cartier Rotonde Mystery Watch that is so similar to Chaykin’s Levitas that he introduced a year earlier (click here). Ad - Scroll to continue with article Konstantin Chaykin’s collection may be rather diverse. I fail to see
Hublot Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain (specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
I’m actually amazed, and kind of speechless now I realise this… It took the watch industry a long time, decades in fact, before there finally is a watch that can be called the ultimate football watch. In the 1960’s and 1970’s there were some chronographs with a 45-minute register, in stead of the usual 60-minute register. But that’s as far as it goes, in terms of football watches (for the non-football peeps… each half of the match lasts 45 minutes). Last year Hublot introduced the very first proper football watch, the Hublot Big Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde, and now they come with a limited edition for the Parisian football club Paris Saint-Germain.While the 1960’s and 1970’s 45-minute chronographs were some sort of attempt to have a watch that was able to measure the 45 minute of each?half of a football match, there was never one that also enabled you to measure the extra time of a match, that is added by the referee. Several years ago Hublo
EXCLUSIVE: First look at the TAG Heuer Autavia 2017 (the result of the Autavia Cup) - Updated with Price and Availability - Monochrome Watches
If you remember, earlier this year, in March 2016, TAG Heuer came with a superb idea: the opportunity for?collectors to vote and to decide which vintage Heuer Autavia will be the inspiration for a modern reedition of this mythical watch. The audience chose?one of the coolest editions, the?Autavia 2446 Mark 3 “Jochen Rindt”. The result of the development was to be expected at Baselworld 2017… However, we had to take into account J.C Biver’s productivity and a certain event, the Heuer Collectors Summit (where we are today!) And guess what… the very first prototype of the?TAG Heuer Autavia 2017 is already shown to the attendants of the Heuer Collectors Summit, and we get to show it to you.?Before looking closer to the new 2017 TAG Heuer Autavia, it’s good to have a look at the heritage of this legendary timepiece. Most collectors and enthusiasts mainly know the TAG Heuer Carrera as one of the brand’s most important historical models, however it wa
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