Hands-On - Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Skeleton (specs & price)
Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Skeleton - The record-breaking Octo Finissimo Tourbillon now comes in a skeleton' version. The perfect opportunity to satisfy our curiosity, taking advantage of the now unobstructed view of the inner workings of the thinnest Tourbillon ever. A testament of the Bulgari watchmaking expertise, the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Skeleton combines several smart technical solutions. More than that, its open-worked movement illustrates the brand's design capabilities down to the very last details.At Baselworld 2014, Bulgari set the record for?the world thinnest tourbillon with the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon. Its movement (1.95mm thick), housed in a slimmed-down Octo case (5mm thick), is now proposed in an open-worked version - and the most impressive is that, even if now skeletonized, the watch and the movement keep the exact same dimensions. After having?the slimmest tourbillon movement ever created (with the non-skeleton version), Bulgari is now holding the title

Reader Survey: The Big Catawiki Questionnaire - Monochrome Watches
Over the past weeks we have selected ‘5 Cool Finds‘ from the new offering that is published each week at Catawiki auctioneers. Tomorrow we will have another one, and again, we found some really great watches?for you. Since we’re browsing the web all day long, we are just trying to help you find nice?watches, sometimes very interesting ones, or desirable, or collectable or all off that. Now, after doing this for some weeks, we would love to hear from you about your experience with Catawiki. How was the registration, and if you bid on an item (they auction more than just watches) we’d love to hear how that was. Maybe you even bought something, or tried to auction a watch of your own. Since we’d like to offer you good advice, we’re now reaching out to you, to help us understand what you think of Catawiki.In the questionnaire below are question about registration, searching, bidding, buying and selling. And not necessarily about watches! At Catawiki they

Weekly Watch Photo - Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Geographic black dial - Monochrome Watches
One of the watches that was high on my wish-list, before larger sized watches became fashionable, is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Geographic. Seeing these photos bring back some good memories and make me realize how much the watch industry has changed over the past 12 years.When I started to become interested in watches and bought my first ‘expensive’ watches, a vintage Heuer Autavia and a TAG Heuer Monaco, these watches where considered rather large. The 44 mm sized watches from Panerai were considered HUGE and when IWC launched its Big Pilot watch in 2003 it was considered humongous. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Geographic also grew in size, from 38.1 mm in diameter to a very moderate of 40 mm for the new Master Geographic that I reviewed last year. Ad - Scroll to continue with article That’s a rather conservative increase in size and I actuall

Oris Big Crown ProPilot Big Date Bronze (Specs & Price)
Bronze is big at Oris, and the brand has been toying with bronze cases since the release of the Carl Brashear model in 2016. Four years later, it produced the Holstein Edition 2020 Bronze chronograph attached to the first Swiss-made solid bronze bracelet. Signature models like the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date have also been treated to bronze, including attractive two-tone steel and bronze editions like the Sixty-Five Sunset with a gradient dial. Today, it's the Big Crown ProPilot Big Date’s turn for a bronze makeover.Oris has been associated with the world of aviation since the turn of the 20th century. Starting with pilot pocket watches in the early 1910s, Oris produced its first pilot's wristwatch in 1917 (known as the Big Crown from 1938 on). With its reputation for reliable, robust tool watches, the brand has an entire collection dedicated to Aviation with vintage-style models like the Big Crown Pointer Date. It also features more contemporary styled pilot watches with its fut

Bremont Wright Flyer - The story of a bad communication with its 'in-house' movement - Monochrome-Watches
“Learn from your mistakes” – and from those made by your competitors –?should have been in Bremont’s handbook. However it wasn’t. Remerber in 2009, TAG Heuer’s Calibre 1887?created?huge discussions after its release. What TAG Heuer claimed to be an in-house movement was in fact based on a Seiko ebauche, that was modified by TAG Heuer. No big deal in terms of product or quality (lots of brands use externally sourced movements) but a massive loss of credibility and bad communication. You thought the lesson was imprinted in every brand’s mind. Wrong! Bremont made?the same mistake with its new Wright Flyer Limited Edition. – UPDATED WITH FORMAL STATEMENT FROM BREMONT –The Bremont Wright FlyerBremont is a UK-based watch brand specialized in chronometers inspired by aviation. If you’ve been reading Monochrome for a longer time, you would have seen our coverage of their chronometers and the review we did of the Supermarine 500.