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Limited Editions and charity.... - Monochrome Watches
There are some watches in the “big, bulky, sporty chrono” section that tend to come out with several limited editions each year. Of course i’m talking about the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore and the Hublot Big Bang. Although i like both watches, i’m sceptical about the number of LE’s. I have never seen other models/brands come out with so much LE’s based on one model, unless you look at Panerai with numerous LE’s based on the Luminor Marina.Somehow i have to thing about a cooking course, when the chef says “now add a bit of this and a bit of that”. When you look at those watches they change the color of the dial and hands, do something odd to the dial (like the AP ROO Barricello) or make a rose gold version. Other things to play with are adding a power reserve, GMT hand or second timezone. And to totally top it off, there’s a tourbillon for those who want it all ??Hublot Project F BangHublot has, again, a new Limited Edit
IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 Edition Chinese New Year
The Portugieser collection is a pillar of IWC Schaffhausen, and for a good reason. The collection dates back to the 1930s when two gentlemen dealers from Portugal commissioned a watch for the local market. The result, reference 325, gave the name and paved the way for many beautiful timepieces with all sorts of complications. Two years ago, IWC offered a new take on the classic hours, minutes, and small seconds watch in the Portugieser collection, a compact Portugieser Automatic 40, in harmony with the universal trend of smaller case diameters, with several case materials and dial colour options. The new reference IW358315, also known as the IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 Edition Chinese New Year, complements this line with a new colour dial and a new – and fun – shape for the rotor.Watch editions dedicated to the Chinese New Year are widespread across the industry. Big and small brands rush to satisfy the critical market, offering themed animations in limited editions. IWC i
F.P. Journe Vagabondage III - Review (Video, Specs & Price)
Fran?ois-Paul Journe has always been a bit apart in the watchmaking industry. Yet, most of his watches are easily recognizable and are imbued?with a clear, distinctive DNA. However, a specific series of watches does not respect the rule; the Vagabondage watches. Entirely different case, entirely different displays, entirely different philosophy… 2017 marks the arrival of a third tortue-cased watch, the?F.P. Journe Vagabondage III (which we already showed to you in video here). A splendid watch and the?first-ever mechanical watch with digital jumping-seconds. And today, we take a closer look at it.A series of three watches, as a journey through timeThe story of the Vagabondage series of watches is slightly?atypical. Never these watches have been regular products and the start of the journey itself is rather special. First of all, why this name (which might sound?quite weird for non-French speakers)? In fact, “vagabondage” is a French word that could be translated by &#
Introducing: IWC Launches a Big Pilot Shock Absorber XPL for AMG's Toto Wolff
As we’re gearing up for the 2025 Formula One season, which has recently changed its official timekeeper, we’ve started to see some F1-dedicated watches being launched. IWC, the partner of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, already warmed us up with a colourful take on its simplest Pilot’s Watch, the Mark XX AMG Team watch. Now, the brand looks at the opposite side of the spectrum with a Mercedes-AMG-themed version of its experimental Big Pilot, the Shock Absorber XPL reference IW356201 made with team principal Toto Wolff.?Before we dive into the topic of today’s limited edition watch, let’s quickly talk about the Big Pilot Shock Absorber XPL, as it is something special, which has been the topic of a great story on MONOCHROME. First presented in 2021 under the reference IW357201, the name of the watch says it all. This was the first model to be created by the brand's Experimental Engineering Team (hence the XPL in the name) and it was all about resista
Introducing: Andersen x BCHH Celestial Voyager Sunset over Cappadocia Version 2
Longtime Singaporean collector Benjamin Chee had a dream of creating beautiful, high-end watches. To manifest his vision, he created the BCHH (Benjamin Chee Haute Horlogerie) brand and reached out to master watchmaker Svend Andersen of Andersen Geneve to create the Celestial Voyager, a sophisticated world timer with a handcrafted enamel dial. Following the sold-out success of the 2022 Sunset over Cappadocia model, the new BCHH Celestial Voyager flies in with a cloisonne enamel dial with a new two-tone platinum and rose gold case.Svend Andersen honed his skills at Patek Philippe in the prestigious Atelier des Grandes Complications during the 1970s, where he specialised in world timers, working with the complication developed by Louis Cottier in the 1930s. Branching out to create his own brand in the 1980s, Andersen has become the go-to watchmaker for world-time complications.Svend Andersen's ultra-thin world timer, the Mundus, with a case of only 4.2mm - circa 1994The first collaboratio
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