Introducing: The A. Lange & Sohne Minute Repeater Perpetual
Deploying its full arsenal for Watches and Wonders 2025, the Saxon powerhouse A. Lange & Sohne unveils the Minute Repeater Perpetual, a potent horological cocktail combining a minute repeater with a perpetual calendar. A rare and ambitious mix, the imposing platinum Minute Repeater Perpetual with a black enamel dial is powered by a newly developed manual-winding movement.?Lange has ample experience with both complications, as evidenced by the Zeitwerk Minute Repeater, the Richard Lange Minute Repeater and the Lange 1 and Langematik Perpetual Calendar. While Lange has produced some mind-boggling complication mixes, like the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon, this is the first time Lange marries a QP to a minute repeater – excluding of course the Grande Complication (which added even more to the equation). Ad - Scroll to continue with article Lange’s

In-Depth: The Steel Patek Philippe Cubitus Steel 5821A on the Wrist
This was, by far, the most anticipated launch of the year, but also (and unsurprisingly) the most discussed and commented new release of 2024. In fact, I can’t recall witnessing such an amount of reactions from the watch community since the launch of the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 collection – which, for several reasons, shouldn’t come as a surprise. We’re here to talk, of course, about the Patek Philippe Cubitus. And now that the dust has settled, and following our initial article presenting the collection, we thought it would be relevant to return to the topic, and specifically to look at the core model, the Steel Cubitus 5821A. It’s time to give you our impressions on the wrist – a.k.a the best way to give an objective opinion about a watch.Context of the launchFor several months now, we knew Patek was cooking something, a new collection of sporty-chic watches. Knowing the category, the anticipation was high, to say the least. In addition to that,

Hands-On: The New Longines Spirit Flyback Chronograph
There is no denying that Longines’ latest and most prolific collection, the Spirit, has been quite a success during its two years of existence. With its attractive combination of modern features and historical references to the brand’s aviation past, the Spirit has already been released in multiple editions, including time-and-date, chronograph, no-date and recently, GMT Zulu time. And now, it appears in its most complicated edition so far, a new chronograph that’s fairly different from this classic version?that pays tribute to an important function for the winged hourglass. Let’s discover the new Longines Spirit Flyback.Longines’ expertise in the field of aviation-related watches and chronographs is undeniable. We’ve explained this in the first article covering the Spirit collection. What matters most today actually has to do with what’s under the hood, with a complication or function that has a lot to do with Longines: the flyback chronograph

Collector's Series - @NYCWATCHGUY And His Urwerk UR-220 Falcon
A collector active on Instagram, @NYCWATCHGUY lives in the Greatest City in the World (his words), New York, and works as a venture capitalist but at heart, he is a watch meme maker. His many talents inspired him to a hobby we can all relate to; collecting watches. His journey started out traditionally but led him to more out there' watches. His Urwerk UR-220 Falcon is not the first watch of the brand to be featured in the Collector's Series, but clearly is one of the most impressive.Frank Geelen, MONOCHROME – How did you find out about Urwerk? Ad - Scroll to continue with article @NYCWATCHGUY – I definitely came across Urwerk casually on watch blogs in the early days of my watch collecting journey (around 2012). I always thought they were cool, but as someone who just owned a starter Zenith at the time (and the state of my bank account), making the

On the Road to BASELWORLD 2016 - Monochrome Watches
Here we are again, the day before?the official opening of the most important week of the watchmaking industry,?Baselworld. The largest watch fair on Earth is about to open. Big watch?brands like , Tudor, Patek Philippe or Omega are ready to show us what they have been working on, and also many small?independent watchmakers and brands worked hard to show us what they are capable of. We will select the coolest and best brands out there, and show you the novelties of both major brands and small indie brands. Today, 15th of March, we will be on our way to Basel, Switzerland, to cover?BASELWORLD 2016. During our trip, and as soon as?we arrive at Baselworld, we will keep you posted on Facebook and Instagram.As every year, Monochrome-Watches?will be there to cover the most interesting novelties. In all honesty, it is impossible to cover everything, so we will make a selection and we’ll do that the Monochrome way. Baselworld, as the main horological event of the year, hosts all kind of