Recap - MONOCHROME's Best Videos Of 2022
If you’re reading this article, we have nothing to teach you about our extensive written content. As we explained in our previous retrospective with our most-read articles of 2022, we’ve published close to 1,200 articles this year. But MONOCHROME is just about text and photos… It’s also about videos and?a Youtube channel that is packed with great content. This year, we’ve published about 60 videos, including multiple reviews and live reports from events such as Watches & Wonders and Geneva Watch Days. And, of course, there are what we like to call “in-depth” movies. And now, it’s time to look back at what we think were our best videos of 2022.?The Definitive Guide To All Omega Watches in Bond MoviesA complete recap of all the Omega watches used in James Bond 007 movies since 1995 Goldeneye… All the models explained, all the references listed, all gadgets explored, and in addition, the appearance of the brand’s heritage, Pe

One Lunar Year With A Seiko SBDC007 - Monochrome Watches
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle he wrote of a mysterious substance Ice 9 that could in fact FREEZE any organic substance it came into contact with! A single molecule of Ice 9 could have set off a chain reaction of frosty crystallization that would have ended all life on Earth! When I bought my Seiko SBDC007 it had a similar effect on my entire collection! It froze them all in their tracks and rendered them useless!At the outset of the lunar year denoting the time of the Dragon my family boarded a Boeing 777 bound for Singapore. (China can be a bit TOO festive during Chinese New Years! (Read as - LOUD!!!)). In Singapore we went about the task of sourcing out the essentials: shelter - our usual room overlooking the marina did the trick! Food - there are enough celebrity chefs in the Mall alone to keep us nicely fed. Clothing - shorts and t-shirts please - even in February, Singapore is bloody hot! With the needs' covered we set out to cover the wants'! My wife and daughter are eas

Hands-on review of the Oris Divers Sixty Five (live photos, specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
What makes a watch cool? Difficult question that might lead to multiple answers and many more questions, each different considering who’s answering the question. Defining the coolness (or the attraction, to use a more grammatically correct?word) of a watch is all about subjective attributes, led by personal tastes, personal needs or personal budget. However, sometimes?a watch appears to be cool to (almost) everyone. The new Oris Divers Sixty Five has numerous tangible reasons to explain this with its stunning price / quality / coolness ratio. Throwback on one of the stars of Baselworld 2015.What does the Oris Divers Sixty Five has more than other dive watches? Technically, nothing. We can even argue that it’s a poor diver watch, with its 100m water resistance. Movement-wise, it’s also a very simple – however robust and functional – timepiece, that features the Calibre 733, based on a Sellita movement (an ETA-clone). After that, you’d probably ask you

Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue M79030B - Specs & Price
This is it… Somehow unexpected but also envisioned by some collectors, the new Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue. We thought Tudor was not introducing new models this year, and they proved us wrong. First in line for 2020 (and maybe the only new model), a rather simple but efficient animation of an existing watch. Based on the praised and well-executed model introduced a couple of years ago, the brand now adds a cold colour scheme to its vintage-inspired diver.Blue is part of Tudor’s identity and has been widely used in past and modern models.We’re not going to go into full details here since we’ll be having a hands-on with this watch in a few days. But here’s what you need to know in a glance. Blue is an important colour for Tudor, mostly seen in the highly collectable Submariner watches manufactured for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). As such, we’ve seen multiple editions of modern Tudor watches presented in this desirable colour, including the 4

Tudor FastRider Chrono - hands-on with live photos & price - Monochrome-Watches
This year, at Baselworld 2015, Tudor is not only introducing the (our) Tudor Pelagos with a blue dial and the Tudor North Flag, both with the new in-house movement. They also had a chronograph in the vaults, but not one from the Heritage Collection, like the Heritage Chrono Blue. Instead they are coming with a modern, cool and young adults oriented timepiece, the?Tudor FastRider Chrono.The FastRider isn’t properly a novelty, as a previous one was already in the collection since 2011. It was a chrono in stainless steel, with a stainless steel bezel (engraved with a tachymeter scale) and available with a white or red stripped dial. This watch was the result of a collaboration with Ducati (the motorbike brand) and was somehow quite obsolete in the actual range of cool Tudor watches. The new one may have several new features, it keeps?the Ducati partnership. Ad - Scroll to continue with article