Hands-On - Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin Black Ceramic 26522CE (Specs & Price)
In the early 1970s, Audemars Piguet introduced a watch that would forever unite the worlds of luxury and sport. Now, almost 50 years later, the brand continues to find innovative and intriguing ways to reinvent the Royal Oak, ensuring it remains one of the most sought-after watch collections in the world. This year, Audemars Piguet has done it again, introducing a very special limited-edition model. It wasn't accompanied by the usual fanfare, however, so this one may have slipped right under your radar. Luckily, we were able to get our hands on the new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon Extra-Thin Black Ceramic ref. 26522CE. Here's everything you need to know.Case and BraceletIf this new model looks somewhat familiar it's because this is the second all-ceramic watch to come from Audemars Piguet. Preceding this model was the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar Black Ceramic, easily one of the most talked about watches of 2017. As with that watch, the new Royal Oak Extra-Thin Black Ceramic bo

Cartier Introduced the new Tank MC Skeleton in Palladium - Monochrome Watches
Cartier introduced the new Tank MC , which is according to Cartier themselves, the most masculine version of the Tank ever. The new Tank MC comes in two version: as an automatic version with Cartier’s in-house caliber 1904 MC and as a manually wound, fully skeletonized version in Palladium. While we’re sure the Tank MC Automatic will be a hit in the boutiques, we love to focus on the latter.?In the past Cartier has introduced several fully skeletonized wrist watches, like the Santos Dumont Squelette and the Santos 100 Squelette. The new Tank MC Skeleton features the exact same fully skeletonized manually wound movement, offering 72 hours of power reserve. The new Tank MC Skeleton measures a “hefty” (at least for a Tank) 39.10 mm from left to right and 43.9 mm from lug to lug, making this into one of the biggest Tank models available. Despite the larger dimensions, the case’s height measures a pleasant 9.3 mm. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Style Guide - Bracelets for Men - Monochrome Watches
Our contributor GEO is not only one of the world’s most knowledgable experts on Cartier timepieces, he’s also an absolute fashionado and ultra stylish ‘dandy’. After he inspired me to write about the newly released Cartier Nail Bracelet, he now shares his knowledge about men’s bracelets and lists the coolest for you.?Bracelets for men have been around since ages.?At the time when the internet blogs weren’t around yet, around 1990,?there were different styles and habits in the various countries. Let me take you on a ‘trip’ to the different regions and their style of bracelets for men. Ad - Scroll to continue with article In Turkey and in the southern European countries like Italy, South of France and Spain,?men were very often seen with a gold bracelet, with small links, in the eighties. On the contrary, in the nort

LVMH 1st Semester 2020 Results Down, Yet Showing Some Resilience - Monochrome Watches
Following the results of Swatch Group for the 1st Semester 2020 and Richemont for the 1st Quarter 2020, respectively showing sales down by 43.4% and by 47%, it is now time for LVMH, the world’s leading group in luxury goods and a solid indicator of the state of the industry, to report its sales for the first half of the year. As expected, due to an economic environment disrupted by a global health crisis, sales are down quite importantly, however, the French group still shows a certain resilience in some of its divisions.LVMH is the main player in the luxury field today with businesses operating in fashion, wines, selective distribution, perfumes and cosmetics, and of course, watches and jewellery. Due to the COVID 19 situation, the closure of shops and manufactures and the suspension of international travel, the group was expected to report revenue down by quite a margin. Altogether, for the first six months of 2020, LVMH sees its sales down by 28% at constant exchange rates 

Cvstos... interesting discussion - Monochrome Watches
After being offline for a few weeks, i am finally ready to post again. I moved to another?house and although i still don’t have an internet connection i can sometimes use a friends connection to read some forums and now post.One of the few discussions i read and enjoyed reading a lot, is the discussion about Cvstos. Cvstos is in my opinion a brand that has ‘borrowed’a lot of their inspiration from another brand, Richard Mille. While Richard Mille makes extarordinairy pieces and created a unique look for his watches, cases and movements, this relatively new comer has more or less the same look. Just have a look at these photos of Cvstos and the beautiful Richard Mille RM12… Ad - Scroll to continue with article Besides the similarities in design of the case and movement (i am not assuming their are technically of the same level!!!), they al