Buying Guide - The 10 Best Watches of 2018 From EUR 10,000 To EUR 25,000
As the end of the year is fast approaching, we continue with our?“best of 2018” buying guides. After the top 10 watches below EUR 2,000, followed by 10 watches?between EUR 2,000 and 5,000, and finally, our pick of the best watches of 2018 priced between EUR 5,000 to EUR 10,000, we now move to true luxury watches (or even the start of the high-end category for some) with our 10 favourite watches of 2018 in the 10k to 25k Euros range. And yes, big money means big pleasure here.Note: as always, these buying guides are our own personal selections and we're sure you'll have your own favourites. Feel free to list your top watches of 2018 in this 10k to 25k Euros category in the comment section at the end of this article!A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Outsize Date – EUR 24,500What best defines a true luxury (or even high-end) watch than A. Lange & Sohne? Certainly, in the price range we’re focusing on today, you can’t expect to get your hands on the most comple

Retrospective - All the Record-Breaking Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Models
It’s been seven years in the making so far, but we're pretty sure it won’t end where it is right now. This year marked the seventh record-breaking release by Bvlgari, with the Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar, the world's thinnest QP. But where did it actually start? We take a little trip down memory lane and go through all the groundbreaking, record-setting models, from the very first down to the lastest.Ultra-thin watchmaking is a complication in itself, especially when it comes to the marginal sizes we're talking about. Several brands are renowned for their work in the field of ultra-thin watches. Piaget, Jaeger LeCoultre and Audemars Piguet for instance, all have a long-standing relationship with the concept of trying to build the slimmest possible?watches. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Bvlgari stepped into the limelight in 2014 with the

The Academie Horlogere Des Createurs Independants (AHCI) 2012 China Tour in Shanghai - Monochrome Watches
Today is the first day of SalonQP, a true horological fest, in the Saatchi Gallery in London. That makes a perfect good reason to publish Mario’s first (of a series) story about his visit to Top Marques Luxury Fair?in Shanghai where he met with eight watchmakers of the AHCI. We hope this inspires you to visit SalonQP today or tomorrow!?Academie Horlogere Des Createurs Independants – AHCI for short – is a collection of 36 of the top independent watchmakers in the world. Founded in 1984 by Vincent Calabrese and Svend Andersen as a forum to help promote the vibrancy and depth of knowledge of the smaller and not widely know names. Ad - Scroll to continue with article By ’84 watchmaking had become an industry inextricably linked to names and companies whose founders (and innovations) were long since dead! For one weekend in October, eight AHCI

Buying Guide - 5 Complication Watches Offering Excellent Value For Money - Monochrome Watches
After going through some of the best dress watches of 2017 (part 1 and part 2), it is time for our year-end buying guides to pick 5 traditional complication watches from 2017, stressing value - because an expensive watch is not necessarily a better watch. All you need from a watch, without having to take out a new mortgage. This doesn't mean affordable watches, but rather impressive complications with a price that is far from being shocking.Complete Calendar + Dual-Time - Oris Artelier ComplicationOris launched the Artelier Complication in 1991. In 2017, this signature piece is updated?with?a sleeker, lighter feel in keeping with the classical design of the model. A great classic in style (and function), it displays the day, date, moon phases as well as a second time-zone. The watch features a 40.5 mm steel case and a guilloche dial. It comes in different versions among which the pink gold markers is our favourite. And all of that comes for just EUR 2,000 Now that's an impressive price

Hublot Big Bang 20th Anniversary Materials and High Complication Set - Monochrome Watches
Hublot pulls out all the stops for the 20th-anniversary celebrations of its iconic Big Bang with a one-of-a-kind “Materials & High Complications” set composed of five unique pieces. Flaunting tourbillons, chronographs and minute repeaters – and in one case, a combination of all three – this unique set traces the material innovation and high-end complications that have accompanied the Big Bang and forged its unmistakable personality over the past two decades. A smorgasbord of complexity and radical materials, the five-piece set will set you back a cool CHF 1 million.Big Bang Tourbillon Automatic SapphireThe tamest' model in this wild menagerie of complications, this Big Bang exposes its automatic tourbillon movement from the dial and caseback thanks to its entirely transparent and polished 44mm sapphire crystal case. Fitted with a 22k white gold micro-rotor with a special skeletonised 20th-anniversary execution, the one-minute tourbillon at 6 o'clock and the