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Buying Guide - Six New Watches Showing All Their Mechanics Dial Side
Despite the fact a carefully crafted full dial can be extremely satisfying to look at, there's something magical about seeing the inner mechanism of a watch. I remember when I first got into watches seeing a mechanical movement through a transparent caseback at least as rewarding as the front side of the watch. As my experience, and subsequent passion, grew bigger and bigger, the more I got intrigued by a watch's inner workings. The classical way of satisfying that hunger would be to dive into a fully-skeletonized watch, but there's another option as well. Instead of skeletonizing all the components of a movement and/or dial, you can also expose the mechanics by mounting them dial-side. With that in mind, here are six watches that do just that.Chopard L.U.C. Full Strike TourbillonDuring the recent Watches & Wonders event, Chopard unveiled a stunning trio of repeater watches. From complex to super-complex, to oh now you're just showing off complex, this trio epitomizes the brand's c
Bubba Watson wins Golf Tournament wearing a Richard Mille RM038 - Monochrome Watches
Now usually you won’t see these kind of titles on Monochrome, however in this case I wanted to make an exception. The reason for this, is that withstanding the shocks and G-forces that a wrist watch endures during a game of golf, are ‘pretty extreme’.Of course we’re happy for 33 year old Bubba Watson. However Monochrome is not about sharing sports results. Richard Mille’s technical achievement is something Monochrome should report about and we will. The recently released RM055 Bubba Watson can withstand forces of no less than 500G; that’s ‘pretty extreme’. Ad - Scroll to continue with article During the tournament, Bubba Watson was wearing his RM038. The RM038 tourbillon is able to work in golf's extreme conditions and was designed with 3 major specifications in mind: lightness, extreme shock resis-tance and comfor
SIHH 2016: Introducing the Montblanc 4810 Chronograph - Live photos, Specs and Price - Monochrome Watches
Montblanc has been coming with an extremely strong offering, this year again, and during the fair they literary are the talk of the ‘town’. The high-end complication, like the ExoTourbillon Slim and the limited editions with hand-painted dials, the Tourbillon Cylindrique Pocket Watch 110 Years and the 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter?are awe-inspiring. At the same time, the ExoTourbillon and the 1858 Chronograph Tachymeter are priced rather competitively and that’s also how Montblanc sets itself apart from the crowd. Today we’re going to look at a friendly priced chronograph of the newly revamped 4810 collection, the Montblanc 4810 Chronograph.?One of the distinct features of the 4810 collection has always been the impressive guilloche dials that feature the ‘exploding Montblanc star motif’,?as the brand calls it, and big applied Roman numerals. This year the 4810 collection has been revamped, and the cases have been redesigned, and are slightly smaller a
Kering Group 2020 Half-Year Results In Line With Industry, Resilience Despite Crisis - Monochrome Watches
Following Swatch Group, Richemont and recently?LVMH, it is now time for Kering, a French group specialized in luxury (fashion, jewelery and watchmaking) and one of the leaders on the market, to announce its half-year results for the year 2020. As expected, the COVID-19 crisis shows its effects on sales and profitability, yet the group also demonstrates a certain resilience to the current situation, just like its main competitor, LVMH.Kering’s results have been calculated over the first six months of 2020, thus right in the middle of what’s known as one of the worse sanitary crisis of recent history. As such, it is no surprise to the sales down by 29.6%, from 7,638 million for the first six months of 2019 to now 5,378 million. Still, not only these numbers are in line with the rest of the industry but also show that luxury, whether fashion/accessories or hard luxury, is slightly less impacted than what the market was expecting and that major groups with diversified portfolio
Hands-On - New Armin Strom Skeleton Pure in White Gold (live pics, specs & price) - Monochrome Watches
The Armin Strom Skeleton Pure is no stranger to us, as we’ve already seen it several times, in multiple editions: the Skeleton Pure Water (stainless steel with blue movement plates), the?Skeleton Pure Water Fire (red gold with grey movement plates) or the Unique Piece for Only Watch 2015 (stainless steel with black movement). We even demonstrate you the customization possibilities that Armin Strom offer to its clients?on this watch. While running through?the QP 2015?walkways, we had to make a stop at the Armin Strom booth and here is the latest edition of the?Armin Strom Skeleton Pure we’ve been showed that now comes in white gold with a new movement adornment.Something we already told you when handling some of the creations of Armin Strom is their capacity to fully expose their movements, where all the technical parts appear through the opened bridges and plates. Skeletonization is a motto for the brand that tends to have, at least, some parts opened – if not the ent
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