Inside Dubois-Depraz, Module Specialist, And Their New Integrated Chronograph - Technical Perspective
Operating somewhat anonymously within the watch industry, this company keeps its impressive client list confidential. Yet, if you are into watches, there's a good chance the name Dubois-Depraz will be familiar. That's because it is one of the most prominent suppliers in the industry. The company has made a name for itself manufacturing parts and additional mechanisms (in particular chronographs and perpetual calendars) for some of the world's most famous watch brands. Today, we take a closer look at this company – and a peek at its first integrated chronograph movement.An Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore, featuring a modular movement with a Dubois-Depraz Chronograph module on top.Modules…There are essentially two ways of getting a complication into a watch. It can be an integrated construction or it can be a modular construction. With an integrated construction, the different functions are incorporated within the movement architecture. With a modular construction, the add

5 Cool Finds - 2 Classic Dress Watch, 2 Vintage Inspired Chronographs and an IWC Ingenieur Automatic Vintage Collection - Monochrome Watches
Here is our 8th installment of our market finds, in collaboration with the online auction?platform?Catawiki. Every Friday we select five ‘youngtimers’ that would make a great addition to ever watch collection. This week, we found 2 perfect dress watches from Patek Philippe and Jaeger-LeCoultre, 2 great vintage inspired chronographs from TAG Heuer and Glashutte-Original and a collectible anti-magnetic watch, the IWC Ingenieur Automatic Vintage Collection.?This week we will only show you three cool finds, because of a not-so-cool?reason: two of the five watches that we selected are replicas / fakes.?These watches were offered at Catawiki and they admit, to their shame, that a few fakes have slipped through their quality control. We will stop our collaboration with them, effective immediately, because we do not want to risk recommending you, our valued readers, a replica as a great find.?Patek Philippe Calatrava ref. 5115GThe Patek Philippe Calatrava is probably the most iconi

IWC launches Three Boutique Edition Pilot Watches - Monochrome Watches
Although IWC dedicated this year entirely to re-engineering the Ingenieur collection (check our extensive coverage here, here and here), they still had time to launch three boutique editions of the Pilot Watch collection. A?Big Pilot's Watch Top Gun, a Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar?Top Gun?and a Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun?are preparing to take off and bring more colour into the fleet. This colorful trio features?details in the form of red, green and blue hands and indices and they are available in limited editions at IWC boutiques around the world.IWC Schaffhausen's designers found inspiration for the three Top Gun Boutique editions from the cockpit instrument found in jets. The Pilot's Watch Chronograph TOP GUN Boutique Edition (Ref. IW388003)?comes with blue hands and indices, the Big Pilot's Watch Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW501903) with green and the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Top Gun Boutique Edition (Ref. IW502903)?with red. All three come in a?cerami

Weekly Watch Photo - IWC Big Pilot's Watch - Monochrome Watches
IWC totally understands how to promote their watches. I think they’ve been looking closely at what watch fans have been doing at forums and what Monochrome also does once a week… sharing beautiful photos of beautiful watches.For the launch of the new Pilot’s watch collection, IWC created a set of very cool photos of their newest timepieces. We already showed you photos of the new Pilot's Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar and the Pilot’s Watch Mark XVII. Today we show you the Big Pilot’s Watch ref. 5009 and the Top Gun and Top Gun Miramar Editions.When IWC released the first Big Pilot’s Watch (ref. 5002) in 2002 it was, together with Panerai, THE watch that changed the fashion of the watch world from what we call now-a-days ‘medium-size’ to BIG. In those days, any watch larger that 40/41 mm in diameter was considered large. I still recall people saying my TAG Heuer Monaco (square case, 38 x 38 mm) being very big. Imagine how much the perce

Anonimo Epurato Safari Black DLC case (Specs & Price)
Prior to Baselworld 2018, Anonimo, the Italian brand founded on the roots of what was left of Panerai when Richemont took it over, presented a new, more casual watch: the Epurato. As indicated by its name, the brand wanted to go back to the essentials, with a cleaner, slightly dressier and easier-on-the-wrist timepiece. Rather successfully received, today two new versions, with DLC-coated cases and sand-coloured accents are introduced, under the name?Anonimo Epurato Safari.Anonimo is truly Italian. Not only in its sense of design but also in its DNA. It was created from the ashes of another Italian?brand. In 1997, Richemont bought Panerai and decided to relocate the production from Florence to Neuchatel. Yet, some of the ex-employees didn't move and they headed the creation of a brand named Anonimo (anonymous in Italian). The main focus was on diving watches, designed by the military engineer Dino Zei, who was at the helm of Panerai for over 20 years. Robust, large, military-inspired&#