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Buying Guide: Is Purple The Hottest New Colour For Watches?
Like seasons throughout the year, there’s a constant ebb and flow in terms of design, shapes, colours, sizes and materials in watchmaking. Colour is perhaps the easiest to change for brands, but also the one that’s the most susceptible to the public’s opinion and demands. With green being “the hottest thing since sliced bread” over the past years, it now seems there’s a very strong and definitive shift to another striking tone of colour; Purple! In the past, we would see purple watches every now and then, but recently more and more have been rearing their seductive heads, and here are seven of the coolest ones!Baltic PrismicInspired by geometric shapes and luminous refractions, the Baltic Prismic is a surprisingly fun take on a “cocktail watch”. The charmingly compact watch has a purple dial with a guilloche-like centre pattern, a circular brushed ring, a grooved outer flange and a grained small seconds subdial with crosshair. The pyramid
Hands-On: The Otsuka Lotec ¡í 6, The new Japanese Indie Sensation
In May of this year, we introduced Jiro Katayama, an independent watchmaker from Japan, and his brand Otsuka Lotec, which, despite its distribution being limited exclusively to his home country, has gained recognition across the continents. We had the pleasure of experiencing one of his models, the recently updated Otsuka Lotec ¡í 6, and here are our notes.Jiro Katayama, a Tokyo-based watchmaker and designer, draws his inspiration not from the realm of watches but from the industrial world where his career began – the world of cars, trains, aeroplanes, all kinds of vehicles, really, and gauges. Ad - Scroll to continue with article He studied automotive design and worked with Japanese automakers before a pivotal decision in 2008 changed his trajectory. Purchasing a bench lathe machine to create something entirely his own – since building a car was not
Introducing the Chopard L.U.C XPS in Fairmined Gold - Live photos - Monochrome-Watches
Our industry – watchmaking – can easily be seen as far, very far away from responsible matters. How would this be possible from an industry able to sell 40mm objects at more than 300.000 Euros? In fact, there is an organization that applies sustainable considerations to luxury, both jewelry and horology: Fairmined gold. This standard?performs responsible artisanal and small-scale mining, through mining operations, environmental protection, labor conditions, traceability of Fairmined?minerals and socio-economic development. Don’t expect this to come in an ugly watch (like those ugly brown recycle napkins). This responsible artisanal gold is featured in a very elegant and desirable watch, the?Chopard L.U.C XPS Fairmined.To prove the world that the watchmaking industry can also take into account the fate of people exploiting mines, Chopard has decided since a few years now to develop a partnership with Fairmined,?a certification guaranteeing that the gold used to craft s
Monochrome Gives Away Two Passes for an IWC Ingenieur Event at Zandvoort Race Track - Monochrome Watches
Monochrome is giving away two passes for an IWC Ingenieur Event at the Zandvoort Race Track. But you need to qualify first! A) You have an IWC Ingenieur and B) you’re living in the BeNeLux (Belgium, Netherlands or Luxembourg). When the answer on both question is yes, and if you like to attend this exiting day with IWC, then you could just fill out the form below in order to become one of the two lucky guys.IWC has launched an entirely renewed Ingenieur collection this year, which we extensively covered, here and here and here?and here (and I could go on). The event takes place on Tuesday, May 7 at the Zandvoort Park automotive circuit and is part of the launch of the renewed Ingenieur collection. This day at the race track will offer you to opportunity to get up close and personal with all new Ingenieur models. And of course you will get the chance to experience a ride in different Mercedes AMG cars, and take a look around in the pit box. Ad - Scroll to continue with a
Introducing Vacheron Constantin Quai de lIle Steel with Blue Dial - Specs & Price
The?Vacheron Constantin Quai de l'Ile is a watch with surprising contrasts. Made by one of the most prestigious names in?the industry, but crafted in steel. Designed in a sporty, urban way but featuring a “Hallmark of Geneva” movement. Bearing a name synonymous with dream watches but rather accessible. This superb surprise is now available in a new style. Here is the?Vacheron Constantin “Entry-Level” Quai de l'Ile in Steel, now with Blue Dial.The?Vacheron Constantin Quai de l'Ile collection was quite difficult to position, at least for the first years of its existence. Rather sporty, except for the fact it was made from gold, complex in a way, but maybe not complex enough for some collectors… A difficult watch to categorise, until 2016 and the presentation of what would become the “entry-level” proposition of the brand, and a stunning offer to say the least. While previously quite unclear, the switch to a stainless steel case and the redesign o
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