The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Frosted Gold Selfwinding 34mm - Monochrome Watches
Audemars Piguet expands its Frosted Royal Oak collection with a new 34mm model shimmering with its hammered white gold case and refreshing light blue dial. Five years ago, Audemars Piguet released a frosted gold version of the iconic Royal Oak; not the iconic Royal Oak designed by Gerald Genta in 1972, but an equally iconic Royal Oak revisited by Jacqueline Dimier in 1976 for women. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the women's version in 2016, the Royal Oak – in 33mm (quartz) and 37mm (mechanical self-winding) – was dressed for the occasion with a glistening hammered gold case created with Florentine jewellery designer Carolina Bucci. Although the idea of taking a hammer to a watch might make your hair stand on end, Carolina Bucci is a fourth-generation jeweller from the Florentine Bucci jewellery dynasty and dominates the gold hammering technique. Using a diamond-tipped tool to create tiny indentations in the metal, the result produces a discreet sparkle that is never

Interview - Hind Seddiqi on the 2021 Edition of Dubai Watch Week
During Dubai Watch Week, we interviewed Hind Abdul Hamied Seddiqi, Director General of the event and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer of Seddiqi Holding. A key event in the region and the global watch calendar, Dubai Watch Week held its fifth edition from 24 -28 November 2021. Like previous editions, it was held at the Gate in the heart of Dubai’s financial district with over 45 watch brands exhibiting under the umbrella “Reunited for a Moment in Time.”?The Dubai Watch Week is an initiative of Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons, one of the leading watch retailers in the Middle East (and globally), with a portfolio of over 50 luxury watch and jewellery brands across over 70 locations in the UAE.Hind Abdul Hamied Seddiqi, Director General of Dubai Watch Week, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Seddiqi HoldingXavier Markl, MONOCHROME - Thanks for having us for this spectacular fifth edition of the Dubai Watch Week. Can you tell us about the origins of the

MeisterSinger City Edition 2018 - 58 Different Watches Representing Major World Cities - Monochrome Watches
MeisterSinger is following up on last year's No. 01 City Edition, which represented 45 different cities in an equal number of limited edition watches. The company is known for having single hand dials that actually make up its entire portfolio, which is unique among watch brands. It’s now bringing 58 City Edition pieces for 2018 to represent 58 different cities or countries around the world, from New York to Munich to The Hague.MeisterSinger has collaborated with various worldwide jewellers to decorate the exhibition glass backs of each edition, displaying silhouettes of landmarks or skylines of specific locations. Each city or country name is engraved on the steel caseback, with some cities having an additional aphorism. For example, Stockholm has The Venice of the North engraved as well. Several editions also represent entire countries (unlike last year's city-only editions), with Portugal featuring a stylized guitar, for example (for the Fado genre of music). There are also Ro

First Look: The Rado DiaStar Original x Tej Chauhan Special Edition
Rado watches stand out with their use of modern materials and the originality of their design. The brand collaborates on a regular basis with international designers. Among the countless initiatives in this field, in 2021, British industrial designer Tej Chauhan applied his creative vision to the True Square with a bold yellow take on the collection inspired by futuristic visions of pop culture. This first collaboration led to another opportunity as the designer was entrusted with reimagining another icon of Rado, the Diastar Original. While reinterpreting such a radical design is no simple task, the result is well worth a closer look.The Rado True Square reinterpreted by Tej Chauhan in 2021Presented in 1962, the intriguing Rado Diastar was marketed as the first scratchproof watch in the world’s history. Its retro-futuristic oval, oblong case was designed with the idea of crafting a robust, un-scratchable watch. Fitted with a sapphire crystal (the use of sapphire crystals only st

Introducing The Frederique Constant Classics Tourbillon Manufacture In Steel
It is not a secret anymore that Frederique Constant has built its success around accessible luxury watches. The idea has long been to provide complications and in-house movements (at least within the Manufacture collection) at almost unprecedented price levels. Remember the brand’s take on the perpetual calendar? Less than 8k euros at launch time. Same with the Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar, priced below 23k euros. Earlier this year, FC presented a new, streamlined tourbillon watch, the Classics Tourbillon Manufacture, with an in-house automatic movement housed in a gold case (and yes, that was also fairly priced). It now returns in two new stainless steel editions, and once again price is somewhat making a statement.?With only a few exceptions to the rule (and I won’t mention China-made tourbillons here) such as TAG Heuer and recently Horage and?CODE41?(both newcomers with the idea to make a name for themselves), watches featuring a tourbillon are expensive. Perio