Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve Award winners at Salon de Belles Montres - Monochrome Watches
And the winner is De Bethune with the DB28. The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve is more or less the Oscars of the watch industry and the De Bethune DB28 won the Aiguille d’Or which can be seen as the most important prize. This weekend all winning timepieces will be on exposition at Salon de Belles Montres in Paris.?Besides the Aiguille d’Or (the golden hand) prizes where awarded in many other categories, just like at the Oscars. It must be said that the De Bethune DB28 is a remarkable watch and I’m not surprised it won. Technically at the forefront, a futuristic design and ergonomically unmatched. Ad - Scroll to continue with article De Bethune is a brand that is very different from other watch brands, or perhaps even very different from the entire watch industry. The relatively small manufacture is in the Swiss Jura and is run by?David

VIDEO - The Seamaster Chronicles - Part 1, The History of the Omega Seamaster
Last year, we introduced one of our largest projects ever, the Speedmaster Chronicles. Five videos with five men, including James Ragan (the man who turned the Speedmaster into the Moonwatch), Omega’s CEO, a well-known auctioneer, Mr?Speedy Tuesday and an?anonymous?collector, who all shed their light on one of the most iconic watches ever created, the Omega Speedmaster a.k.a. Moonwatch.?Today we’re starting with another big video project, namely “The Seamaster Chronicles” – and you probably guessed it… we will have an in-depth look at Omega’s diving icon, the Seamaster.In a series of three videos, we will explain how a watch that sprouted from the watches that Omega delivered to the Royal Air Force during WWII, has become so much more. The very first Seamaster was introduced by Omega 70 years ago, in 1948. It has grown to become a large collection, where you can find not one iconic watch but a host of iconic pieces – with elegant dress wa

Introducing the IWC Portofino Monopusher Edition Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Unique Piece - Monochrome Watches
We’ ve seen many watch brand introducing new timepieces, usually limited edition and some times one-off’s, to highlight their relationship with a car brand, a football club, or, like now, a film festival. What we haven’t seen before is that a brand uses such an introduction to launch an entirely new movement. And that’s exactly what IWC does, now they introduce the ‘piece unique’ IWC?Portofino Monopusher Edition Tribeca Film Festival 2015, which showcases the new Portofino hand-wound 8-days movement with an integrated mono-pusher chronograph. Oh, and you can own this ‘piece unique’ because it will be sold through the online auction by Christie's.One of the virtues of using a large movement is that it’s possible to integrate additional complications. Until now IWC’s Hand-Wound 8-Days movement, a large movement, featured a small off centre second display (at 6 o’clock), a power reserve indicator (at 9 o’clock) and a

Hands-On - Seiko Prospex Samurai Collection for 2017 (SRPB49K1-SRPB51K1-SRPB53K1-SRPB55K1) - Specs & Price
Few brands can claim to have watches that are so iconic that they are actually known after monikers. and Omega are amongst them – think “Paul Newman”, “Bart Simpson” or “Deep Blue” – but Seiko is also on par in this “nickname game”. Many of their watches have been dubbed with funky sobriquets, as for instance the “Turtle” or the “62Mas”. Another one, more modern, is the “Samurai”, known to be a sporty watch with a high quality-to-value ratio. After a discreet comeback with the (sold-out) Lagoon Limited Edition, aficionados?will be pleased to see that the?Seiko Prospex Samurai is back in the 2017 collection, and now in non-limited editions.As a reminder, the Seiko Samurai (you can see an old example below) was launched in 2004 and was produced for a few years, until being removed from the catalogue. Already at that time, it was a rather large, sturdy, 200m water resistant and modernly-desig

The Zoute Grand Prix Rally 2016 sponsored by Lebeau-Courally Part 2 - master crafts fuse together again - Monochrome Watches
Master crafts fuse together again? What do hunting arms and watches have in common? Hunting arms are meant to kill or to keep wildlife growth under control. Watches may be used to kill time but usually it is to read time. Continue reading if you want to know what the similarities are? And why Lebeau-Courally, a sponsor of the Zoute Grand Prix event decided to acquire the IMH Manufacture in Le Locle? In part 2 of the Zoute Grand Prix coverage we will focus on Lebeau-Courally and its newest mechanical watch, the beautiful Phase de Lune with 18 layers of enamel. We talked with Laurens Peeters, Manager at Lebeau-Courally, about the company, its history, its products and especially the Phase de Lune during the Grand Prix event.About Lebeau-CourallyThe story of Lebeau-Courally starts in 1865 when Auguste Lebeau created perhaps the most desirable, ultimate hunting arms in his workshop in Liege, Belgium. The story goes that his first fire arms was built for himself to participate in a competit