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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon 26730 Hands On
Half a century of life deserves a big celebration, and Audemars Piguet will be pulling out all the stops to fete its Royal Oak. Not only has it hit the 50-year milestone, but its popularity has reached unprecedented heights; just try getting your hands on one. Today, Audemars Piguet releases three new variations of its 41mm Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon with the brand’s latest-generation automatic movement and the legendary Gerald Genta architecture that launched a thousand ships (of copycats). Available in stainless steel, titanium and 18k pink gold, the new Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon models?reflect the subtle design evolutions developed for this jubilee year.The RO gets a Flying TourbillonGerald Genta’s landmark 1972 design for the Royal Oak is considered the precursor of the luxury sports watch category. Although there are countless contenders lurking in the background, no watch design can match the sticking power and success of the Royal Oak. When
First look: The Ultra-Complex IWC Portugieser Eternal Calendar (incl. Video)
IWC’s Portugieser Eternal Calendar is the undisputed calendar masterpiece of the Schaffhausen-based brand for Watches and Wonders 2024. A colossal technical milestone, the Eternal Calendar marks the brand’s first secular perpetual calendar. Unlike a perpetual calendar that will need a correction in 2100, the Eternal Calendar is fitted with a 400-year gear that overrides the Gregorian calendar’s complex leap year rule exceptions and skips three leap years over four centuries. In short, it will not need to be adjusted until 3999! Combined with a hyper-precision moon phase display that will deviate from the Moon’s orbit by one day in 45 million years, this Eternal Calendar in a platinum Portugieser case is a tour de force.Exceptions to the RuleSince antiquity, astronomers have invented instruments to observe, measure and predict the motions of our universe with ever-increasing accuracy. As explained in this article, calendars are one way of condensing this vast amo
Industry News: Louis Ferla Appointed CEO of Cartier, Replaces Cyrille Vigneron
Following the appointment a few weeks ago of Nicolas Bos as the new CEO of the Richemont Group (replacing Jer?me Lambert), the luxury conglomerate once again announces changes in managing positions, with a new CEO for its jewellery/watchmaking brand Cartier. Effective 1st September 2024, Louis Ferla (ex-Vacheron Constantin) will take over Cyrille Vigneron as Chief Executive Officer of Cartier.Cyrille Vigneron, after eight years at the helm of Cartier – which is now reported by Morgan Stanley as the second-largest Swiss watch brand, with a turnover estimated at CHF 3,100 billion and 660,000 units sold in 2023 – has decided to retire and will now assume the position of Chairman of Cartier Culture & Philanthropy and will work to the transition with Ferla. Louis Ferla, who joined Richemont in 2001 at Alfred Dunhill and later joined Cartier in 2006, took over Vacheron Constantin as CEO in 2017 – a brand that is now reported by Morgan Stanley as t
Splitting Time Between Two Masters - Part I: The Omega Seamaster Professional 300 Meter GMT - 'You Only Live Twice' - Monochrome Watches
Most of the readers of Monochrome-Watches.com will be able to identify with this scenario: you buy a watch wear it for a bit. Along comes a character offering you (very nearly) what you paid for it. So out the door it goes. Regret sets in. Suddenly you find yourself trawling through internet auctions looking to get one just like it. I had this experience with an Omega Seamaster Professional 300M GMT. I bought the watch for it's Bond good-looks and timezone shifting functionality – but I sold it for enough money to last me an afternoon! And then I wanted it back! When you buy a Bond' watch you always think of your favorite Bond movie. The immediate name given to a watch that has comeback for a second tour of duty in my collection (obviously): You Only Live Twice (YOLT').The Mission:The mission is simple: after acquiring the Omega Seamaster Professional 300M GMT / 2535.80, wear it for the entire Year of the Snake. I've done this sort of thing before. The goal is to wear the watch e
Panerai Luminor Due 3 Days Automatic Acciaio 38mm PAM00755 - PAM00903 - hands-on (Specs & Price)
In the collective psyche of watch enthusiasts, Panerai is synonymous with large, robust, instrument dive watches. After all, that’s how the brand was conceived back in the 1930s. The brand wasn’t shy about making a 45mm watch its standard offer, and even to introduce 50mm pieces (or more). However, that was the 2000s and demand has changed. In 2016, Panerai introduced the Luminor Due, a range of?smaller and thinner watches, with a hint of elegance. Today, downsizing goes a few steps further, with the introduction of the?Panerai Luminor Due 38mm (and no, it isn’t advertised as a ladies’ watch).The SIHH 2018 collection brought several new watches in the Luminor Due collection. However, the main novelty concerns the?introduction of a smaller diameter: 38mm. Yes, there are no typos, Panerai now offers watches under 40mm! And no, they aren’t, as such, made for ladies – even if, of course, some of our female readers will spot an opportunity to finally wear
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