Face to Face with Omega - A Detailed Visit to the Omega Museum (with tons of photos) - Monochrome Watches
In a previous article, we covered the present state of affairs at Omega, which also gave us a glimpse of what the future holds for the company and for us, journalists and you, potential consumers. Now it is time to rewind the tape of the Omega story and to discover more in details how the company reached this point in its history, by showing you a complete visit of its museum. So, sit back, relax and enjoy the visit?to the Omega Museum.The Omega Museum - Jakob-St?mpflistrasse 96, 2502 Biel /Bienne (Switzerland) - is the oldest museum dedicated to a single watch brand. Located just opposite Omega's headquarters in Biel / Bienne (Switzerland), it features countless exhibits representing the brand's entire history, including the original watchmaker's bench used by Louis Brandt (founder of Omega Watches), when he began making watches more than 160 years ago. Arriving at the museum you are welcomed by a lunar rover – a rather bold statement to what will follow. Up a flight of stairs,

Farer Automatic Watches - British Design, Swiss Made, Vintage Look, Reasonable Price - Monochrome Watches
Wouldn’t it be pleasant if all the youngsters around would involve progressively in real watchmaking, meaning mechanical watches, if most of them grew as collectors, instead of looking at massive and not-so-distinguished fashion brands watches? Well, we don’t live at “candy land” and things won’t change that fast. However, every collector must have a starting point and when a cool, slightly fashion-oriented brand introduces automatic watches after a first successful collection of Quartz timepieces, it can only bring new, younger people to show interest in mechanical. Here are the?Farer Automatic Watches, a combination of British Design, Swiss Made and Vintage Look – a for a reasonable price.Farer watches started with a first collection of watches, in November 2015. Quite successful, these watches – all quartz unfortunately – were showing a nice, vintage-inspired design, which recalled military and sports watches from the 1960s. Cases were

Montblanc Heritage Perpetual Calendar LE100 Rose Gold Brown dial
Among Montblanc's releases during Watches & Wonders 2021 is a new version of its Heritage Perpetual Calendar. The novelty here is the new warm brown dial colour described by the brand as burnt caramel. Like its 2019 predecessor, the new?Montblanc Heritage Perpetual Calendar captures the spirit of historical Minerva timepieces and is powered by the brand's patented and proprietary automatic calibre MB 29.22.The Heritage collection was born in 2014 when Jer?me Lambert took the helm of Montblanc. The idea was to offer a selection of complications with a dash of vintage appeal and affordable prices. The Meisterstuck Heritage Perpetual Calendar, powered by a Sellita movement with a Dubois Depraz module on top, was in its day, one of the most affordable QPs on the market. Although its price was attractive, the 2014 QP had its detractors who didn't like the empty dial and the sub-counters clustered in the centre. In 2019, the Heritage line was revisited with a new design focus based on hi

Roger Dubuis extends Excalibur collection with a Chronograph - Monochrome Watches
After introducing the renewed Excalibur collection earlier this year, Roger Dubuis?announces?two new models?for the Excalibur collection.?There will be?a diamond-set Excalibur 36 with?a new bracelet and a new chronograph, the Excalibur 42 Chronograph.Roger Dubuis makes it easy: the number in the watch’s name stands for the actual diameter,?so the Excalibur 42 Chronograph is a men’s size watch. This particular one features the in-house automatic chronograph movement, caliber RD681, that is powered by a micro-rotor. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The movement inside, caliber RD681,?that shares quite some similarities with caliber RD680 that is used in the La Monegasque Chronograph,?which was?introduced in 2011,?and the Pulsion Chronograph, which was introduced earlier this year. In comparisson to calibner RD680, the new caliber RD681?features an

Phillips Sells Steve McQueen's Heuer Monaco 1133B from 'Le Mans' for $ 2.2 Million, The Most Expensive Heuer Ever - Monochrome Watches
We knew this watch was a very important historical piece. We knew it was in the starting blocks to break a record, as possibly the most expensive Heuer ever auctioned… And it did. The reason is simple. The present vintage Heuer Monaco 1133B is not any Monaco watch. It once was one of the Heuer Monaco 1133B worn by Steve McQueen while filming his iconic racing film, Le Mans. As such, it is one of the watches that gave this very watch its “Monaco Steve McQueen” nickname. And considering what happened with Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona, the result of Phillip’s Racing Pulse auction was expected to be high. And at USD 2,208,000, it is not only high, but this?1133B Heuer Monaco Worn by Steve McQueen in ‘Le Mans’ sets a new record.This watch is one of the most iconic chronographs on the market. Its fame owes much to its cameo role on the wrist of Steve McQueen in the 1971 movie Le Mans. McQueen's performance as racer Michael Delaney is, without do