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Hands on: The Refreshing Ice Blue Dials Of The Zenith Defy Skyline
It's official; the summer season kicked off over a week ago, and if any of our readers live in Spain, you will have experienced the dramatic surge in temperature. In Andalucia, temperatures have reached 44.4¡ãC, and here in Madrid, we are dealing with 38¡ãC today. Excuse the odd meteorological introduction, but with such searing temperatures, the antidote, horologically speaking, is a watch with a chilled icy blue dial that conjures visions of cool pools of water. Like fashion collections, many watch brands have jumped on the seasonal bandwagon, and ice blue is fast positioning itself as the colour of summer for 2023. Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak, Bell & Ross' BR 05 GMT, Omega's Aqua Terra and Tissot's PRX have taken the plunge with very pleasing results, and now Zenith dives into icy blue waters with three new renditions of its Defy Skyline.RecapThe origins of the Defy Skyline date back to 1902 when Zenith introduced a robust line of pocket watches known as Defi. In 1969, Zenith's re
Hamilton Pan Europ Automatic - Full Review (Live photos, specs and Price) - Monochrome-Watches
The Jackson 5, ABBA and Queen. The Godfather, Bruce Lee and Star Wars. Platform shoes, sideburns and bell-bottomed pants. The Royal Oak, Nautilus and Ingenieur. All of them first saw the day of light during the seventies, and in the watch?industry, this era seems to be making a comeback when it comes to design. The original Hamilton Pan Europ was introduced in 1971 and in recent years they've brought it back to life. The Chronograph version was redone and re-issued in 2011, and for 2014 there is a non-chronograph available. We go hands-on for a review with the seventies inspired looker.Hamilton, as a brand, dates back to 1892 (no connection to a bloke named Lewis Hamilton, as many people tend to ask me). Among the accolades of the brand are the pocket watch from 1912 ensuring railroad accuracy in the United States, and the 1957 Hamilton Ventura, the first electric watch available to the public. The latter is also famous for being Elvis Presley's watch of choice for the 1961 movie Blue
In-Depth: Piaget, The Art of Ultra-Thin Watchmaking and Miniaturization
Piaget is world-famous for its vibrant creations in the field of watches and jewellery. In this video, we are taking a look at an important yet sometimes lesser-known side of the brand: its expertise in the field of movement creation and manufacturing. Everything started in the small village of La C?te-aux-Fees in the Swiss Jura mountains, where Georges Edouard Piaget set up his workshop in 1874. There, G.E. Piaget made a name for himself first focusing on escapements and then manufacturing parts and movements, even before crafting his own watches. Since then, Piaget has remained one of the few brands to design and manufacture movements in-house. Among countless calibres created and crafted by the brand, legendary extra-thin movements immediately come to mind. But Piaget also manufactured all types of complications and even quartz movements! If it would be hard to list every movement manufactured by Piaget, we are going to take a look at some of the brand's milestones, including a few
IWC Pilots Watch Chronograph Edition AMG IW377903 (Specs & Price)
By now you're well aware that the MONOCHROME team is not only passionate about watches (well, duh!) but also has a thing for everything car-related. Our weekly column ??The Petrolhead Corner?? is where we let our hair down and put our feet up for a bit of fun and games. Yet, when both worlds collide we take notice and get that little bit more excited, as you can expect. So today, the latest collaboration between IWC and Mercedes-AMG fuels our automotive needs some more with the IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition AMG IW377903.The focus here is on two three-letter abbreviations, both very easily recognized within their own field of expertise; IWC and AMG. While officially known as Mercedes-AMG as it has been an integral part of the Mercedes Group since the early nineties, those three letters are enough to get most gearheads buzzing with excitement. Us included!AMG historyNow we all know that AMG has started out life as a tuning shop by former Mercedes-engineers Werner Aufrecht and Erh
A New Face for Time, Interview with the duo at the helm of Genus Watches
Genus appeared on the independent watchmaking scene in 2019 with the GNS 1.2 WG. A watch in a class of its own, the GNS 1.2 is technically complex and features one of the most fascinating time displays we have seen recently. This radical creation received a well-deserved industry accolade with the 2019 Mechanical Exception Prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve. We hit the road to meet the co-founders of the brand, Catherine Henry and Sebastien Billieres.No hands, no dial… time has a different face at Genus. Twelve satellites rotating at the periphery of the watch show the hours, orienting themselves in an upright position as they travel and get ever-closer to the fixed hour pointer at 9 o'clock. The tens-of-minutes are shown by a mechanical centipede crawling over and around two 30-minute circulating wheels. Last, the precise minutes are displayed at 3 o'clock thanks to a fixed index and rotating disk. Independent watchmaking as we like it: radical, creative,
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