Introducing The A. Lange & Sohne Odysseus Chronograph
If you turn up to the most important annual watch salon with just one model, it had better be good. And being A. Lange & Sohne, the watch in question will not disappoint as the Saxon brand unveils its first automatic chronograph movement – calibre L156.1 – inside its Odysseus sports watch. Regarded as one of the most challenging complications to construct, the new and highly ingenious chronograph movement dispenses with counters to relay elapsed times. Instead, and respecting the strong visual identity of this watch with its outsize day and date windows, the Odysseus Chronograph relies on two central chronograph hands, a reset-to-zero button and increased functionality of the pushers.The Odysseus, launched on 24 October 2019?– 25 years to the day of the first collection that marked Lange's revival – was the brand's take on the luxury sports watch, its first sporty-elegant' everyday model. Not only was it the first steel model for the brand, but it was also t

The Sound of Time - An introduction to alarm, hour-strike, repeater, musical and other chiming watches - Monochrome Watches
You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step towards vision Bernard de ClairvauxThe word clock comes from Middle Dutch clocke, itself deriving from late Latin clocca, meaning bell. The first mechanical clocks did not have faces but were solely striking timekeepers. The days were divided considering the chime of these bells, as mechanized timekeeping spread through Medieval Europe, during the 14th century. As timepieces became portable, the watch was born, at first carried in the pocket, then strapped to the wrist. The French word for watch montre also means to show. Our watches show the time on their dial. But beyond the regular tick-tock orchestrating their sophisticated mechanisms, some watches still make time audible. In this new?installment of A Technical Perspective, we’re going to look at?alarm, hour-strike, repeater, musical and other chiming watches, in other words, The Sound of Time.Alarm watches Modern versions of two of the most iconic alarm wristw

Top 5 Watches from Baselworld 2016 by Brice Goulard - Monochrome Watches
We told you, we had to take some time to properly think about our favorite watches of Baselworld 2016. We’ve seen over 1,000 new watches each and if most don’t deserve to be in our personal wish-list, some?could potentially enter our “hall of fame”. We had to digest Baselworld 2016 but it’s now time to look at what impressed us most. After our contributor Robin, here are the?Top 5 Watches from?Baselworld 2016 by Brice Goulard. It’s sometimes highly predictable, sometimes less. Monochrome-Watches is?eclectic and so are the members of the team.1 – Daytona 116500LN in steel with Cerachrom black bezel (white dial edition)The Daytona has always been one of my least favorite watches of the Crown’s catalogue, at least the modern one (since the new design launched on the ref. 16520 in 1987). I’ve always blamed the lack of contrast of the dial, I simply hated the polished bezel, I always thought this watch to be too shiny and since a few

Richard Mille Divers - Unique Set for Marcus Watches - Monochrome Watches
Not every dive watch is the usual tool watch that you’ll easily take for a plunge in one of the world’s oceans. Although technically it’s possible, I simply cannot imagine that someone would take one of the following three unique Richard Mille Diver’s watches to depths where humans can only breathe with a?self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or scuba set).The set of three unique pieces that Richard Mille made exclusively for Marcus Watches in London, comprises of a RM 028, a RM 032 and a?RM 025 in DLC coated titanium. A few months ago we already explained all cool and impressive features of the Richard Mille RM 025 Tourbillon Chronograph Diver’s Watch and today we’ll dig in deeper in the other two unique pieces. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Marcus Watches commissioned unique pieces and limited editions from s

Seiko Spring Drive Golden Tuna - SBDB008 - Monochrome Watches
This year at Basel, we saw something truly remarkable from the seminal Japanese brand, Seiko. A piece that we so boldly labeled to be an instant classic - the Grand Seiko 44GS reissue. 100 Years of watchmaking was the occasion, and with the Grand Seiko's success in international waters, it was only fitting for Seiko to put a GS as its symbol for yet another hallmark but is the Grand Seiko all there is to it? Monochrome investigatesLike a third-eye or the sixth-sense or whatever you want to call it, we knew something was up with the Japanese brand. It cannot be this simple, the 44GS was fantastic, but the GS was JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) no more. There is something amiss from their anniversary collection. And then we saw it, right at the very last section of the Japanese catalog (click here), a behemoth of a piece that Seiko hid so well. We stood silent staring into the photograph, and only three words were uttered - Spring Drive Tuna! Ad - Scroll to continue with articl