Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar Tantalum Only Watch 2021
Bvlgari will be participating for the first time in the Only Watch auction in Geneva on Saturday, 6 November 2021. Held every two years, Only Watch auctions unique timepieces to fund research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The watch Bvlgari will be donating is an exceptional version of its Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar. Released earlier this year, the Octo Finissimo is the world's thinnest QP and marks Bvlgari's seventh record in the arena of ultra-thin watches. To mark the occasion, the 2.75mm thin automatic QP movement is housed in a 5.80mm case made of rare tantalum, a beguiling metal that is resistant to corrosion, biocompatible, twice as heavy as steel and twice as hard as titanium.Bvlgari's 7 ultra-thin record breakersIt might be Olympic season, but nothing can eclipse the seven gold medals Bvlgari has taken home for its ultra-thin Octo Finissimo watches since 2014. Ultra-thin movements, considered an art in themselves, are devilishly difficult to create and mastered by ju

Time flows by. With the HYT H1 - Monochrome Watches
Generally, fluids and watches don't mix that well. Most watch manufacturers go to great lengths to keep out stuff like water, resulting in some pretty impressive diver watches over the years.The idea of using a liquid inside a watch isn't new. Diver watches often use silicon oil to cope with the pressures under extreme conditions. Besides that, we've seen the Concord C1 Quantum Gravity which uses a fluid cell as a power reserve indicator. HYT however, took it to the next level, incorporating fluids into telling time! Ad - Scroll to continue with article The HYT brand is headed by Vincent Perriard, who in recent years was involved with aforementioned Concord, Hamilton, Technomarine and Audemars Piguet to name a few. Vincent and his crack team of hydromechanical horologists have come up with an extraordinary timepiece, dubbed the H1. The H1 was first shown to the

Best Of 2019 - Our Top 5 Chronograph Watches / Buying Guide
The end of the year is fast approaching, so it’s time for us to look back at the best watches 2019 brought to the watch community. And there were a lot of interesting novelties. So, we reunited the MONOCHROME team, debated and we today we start our “Best of 2019” series, looking at the five best chronographs of the year – in our opinion, that is… meaning that you’re allowed to disagree and to share your favourite 2019 chronograph watches with us in the comment section.Blancpain Air Command Chronograph Re-EditionWhy this one? SImple… Look at it. This watch is simply the coolest Blancpain in recent years. While most of the watches produced by the brand are elegant, classic pieces of vintage-inspired divers, this new watch feels different. Blancpain might not be the best-known brand for pilot’s watches (sister-brand Breguet has more pedigree, obviously) but still, the brand, back in the late-1950s produced an elusive watch intended to be wor

Weekly Watch Photo - Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometrea Spherotourbillon - Monochrome Watches
An intriguing macro photo of a tourbillon is what triggered me to choose this as Weekly Watch Photo. Not just a normal tourbillon, but one with a entirely different hairspring and one that makes an unusual rotation!The connoisseurs among you already recognized the tourbillon from Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new Duometrea Spherotourbillon that we fully explaned in an extensive article about all its special features and techniques. If you look close you can see the cylindrical balance spring, which expands and contracts ‘vertically’. Ad - Scroll to continue with article In the explanatory article I also told you about Jaeger-LeCoultre’s dual wing concept. In my opinion the logical next step in the evolution of mechanical timepieces with a complication. The simple logic of it is that measuring and displaying the exact time, does not have to be influe

Viva Las Vegas - Horological feast for 10th Anniversary of PuristSPro - Monochrome Watches
It is called IGOTT-2 or International Gathering of the Tribe 2 and this gathering is in celebration of the 10th anniversary of watch forum PuristSPro. Starting on Monday May 30th in… Las Vegas! A three day horological feast with numerous special limited editions. Gatherings, get-togethers, meetings, collectors dinners, these kind of events are being organized by watch lovers and aficionados all year round and are the best place to share your passion for nice watches with similar minds. This gathering in celebration of the 10th anniversary of watch forum PuristSPro, is of an entirely different level. Many independent watchmakers and watch brands created special limited editions! Over the next few days Monochrome will share all these special watches with you. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The first watch is made by the moderator of the AHCI and Indepe