A Full Month of Power on the Wrist - Hands-On with the A. Lange & Sohne Lange 31 - Monochrome Watches
For the average automatic or hand-wound watch, a power reserve longer than 3 days is already quite comfortable. Yet, some watches can do more… A week? Easy. Over 10 days? It exists. But what if your watch was able to run for a full month, without the need for you to wind it? Clearly, this would be massive – and it would be the same kind of useless necessity that is offered by a Bugatti Chiron and its 1,500bhp engine… Such a powerful watch exists and it’s called the?A. Lange & Sohne Lange 31. And while it is not a proper novelty, the recently introduced white gold/grey dial version is the occasion for us to look back at this monument, and to all the issues that go along!The length of the power reserve on a watch can be seen at first as just another number. Yet, it has to be regarded as something a bit more important than that. While on automatic watches, the length of the power reserve might not be so important at first (as when the watch is worn, it should b

The Fascinating 1904 Napier L48 Samson Racing Car
Did you ever get stopped in your tracks by a single moment or a picture? Did you ever have an irresistible urge to drop everything and frantically try and find out more about it? I have, and I’m sure a lot of you will also have such memories. For me, the most recent time it happened was when I received a newsletter from Bonhams Cars, the famous auction house that is hosting another Amelia Island Auction next week. The car in question is not some edgy slice of modern-day supercar heaven or a highly praised vintage Italian with Le Mans winning pedigree. No, it is the 1904 Gordon Bennett Napier L48 “Samson” race car, a machine I never heard about before.?I must admit that being a kid from the 1980s and having a profound love for cars (and watches, obviously) I have a good knowledge of everything that came out since I was born. I also think of myself as quite up to speed with a lot of the stuff that went down from, let’s say, the 1950s to the 1980s. When it comes to

About MONOCHROME Watches - Monochrome Watches
For more than twelve years, MONOCHROME has been dedicated to fine watches. Our team of experts is always looking for an opportunity to explain every aspect of Haute Horlogerie - whether manufactured by well-known watch brands that have been in the business for centuries or by artisanal watchmakers. MONOCHROME is one of the most read watch blogs (or online magazines, as we prefer to call it ourselves) in the world, and besides news, we serve you reviews, historically relevant articles, videos and in-depth technical explanations in our Technical Perspectives.What sets MONOCHROME apart, is that we love to explain, educate and share the passion for technically complex aspects and the beauty of hand-finished mechanical movements. Not everyone understands the nitty-gritty of a constant force mechanism, a tourbillon or a perpetual calendar, and many technical aspects remain ‘abracadabra’. That’s why we?explain?everything in a way that makes it easy to understand. It's our pa

Oris James Morrison AoM Limited Edition / Introducing, Specs & Price
Just a month after we celebrated the Art Blakey Jazz edition by Oris, the brand from Holstein introduces another, just as nice, jazz-inspired dressy piece in the same collection. This James Morrison edition really makes it quite hard for us to keep up with all these novelties, so let's see if the Oris James Morrison AoM Limited Edition lives up to the legend it's named after.Tribute to Jazz legend James MorrisonJames Morrison is somewhat of a living legend, though his story isn't that of the typical jazz artist. Morrison wasn't from the plantations or the streets of Chicago; he was born in 1962 in a small farmer's village in the south-east of Australia. He grew in a very musically inclined family and started playing in bands before he even hit his teens. He mainly played the trumpet, but soon started experimenting with other instruments as well. By 21 he had founded a band named after himself and his brother, the Morrison Brothers Big Band. Success ensued and he began touring the world

Oris Divers Sixty Five Chronograph Steel-and-Bronze (Specs & Price)
After Oris introduced the Bronze Carl Brashear Chronograph earlier in 2018, and after the brand announced teaming up with Swiss retailer Bucherer to created a new episode of the “Blue Editions”, we knew that the standard version of the Divers Sixty Five Chronograph was about to come. So end of the teasing: here is the regular production model of the Oris Divers Sixty Five Chronograph – and indeed, it still looks good in steel-and-bronze.When Oris and Bucherer introduced their shared vision of the “65 Chrono”, we wrote: “The Divers Sixty-Five is Oris' most successful collection of the last five years. An affordable, well-executed, good-looking diver with a fair amount of vintage elements, it has been praised by many - including us. What started as a stand-alone piece quickly became a full collection, with 36mm, 40mm, and 42mm models and with steel, BiCo' steel-and-bronze or full bronze versions. Last year saw the first introduction of a complication i