Glashutte Original Senator Chronometer Tourbillon (Live Pics) - Monochrome Watches
Precision reaches new heights with the presentation of the Glashutte Original Senator Chronometer Tourbillon.? Inspired by the original mission of the tourbillon to improve rate precision, the Senator chronometer Tourbillon marries a flying tourbillon with a stop-seconds mechanism, a zero reset and a minute detent to ensure hyper-precise time setting. Certified as a chronometer by the German Calibration ?Service in Glashutte, the latest Senator model displays a beguiling dial with three-quarters of its surface area on show.PURSUIT OF PRECISIONWith the Senator Chronometer Tourbillon, Glashutte Original is determined to recover the original vocation of the tourbillon. The tourbillon was designed by Breguet in the 19th century to improve the rate precision of portable mechanical timepieces in the face of gravity. Hidden below deck, tourbillons were utilitarian contraptions. Today, the function of the tourbillon is largely negligible and is used often more as a display of watchmaking prowe

Video Frederique Constant Highlife Perpetual Calendar
No doubt, the concept of a perpetual calendar luxury sports watch is highly desirable, as combining the visual appeal of a sporty-chic watch with an integrated bracelet and one of the most attractive complications, the QP. But what options do you have? The Nautilus Perpetual Calendar 5740G, the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar or the Vacheron Constantin Overseas Ultra-Thin Perpetual Calendar are all well above 80k euros. Even the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Perpetual Calendar will set you back over 30k euros. Serious watchmaking requires serious money… Does it, really? Frederique Constant has a different opinion on that specific question. Its answer is named the Highlife Perpetual Calendar and it shows that a luxury sports QP isn’t only for the happy few.?As we’ve said already in our written review of the Highlife Perpetual Calendar and fully explained in the video on top of this article, this watch is one of the most accessible QPs on the market, with a retail price far be

The return of the Eberhard Scafograf 300 - overview of an Iconic dive watch - Monochrome Watches
Eberhard occupies a great chapter in the history of the Swiss watch industry. However, it belongs to a segment rather obscure and less known from a wider audience. A segment which contains companies likes Venus, Martel, Leonidas, Lemania, Minerva, Excelsior Park, Gallet, Nivada, to name a few but a few that were right from the start instrumental for producing calibres and watches that have propelled, as a whole, the Swiss watch industry unequivocally to its current leading position. So it is quite excited that we're about to explain the return of the Eberhard Scafograf 300, one of the less known but still iconic dive watch.History and Milestones of the Eberhard ScafografFounded in 1887 by Georges Eberhard, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Eberhard & Co started to produce watches and quickly, it was right at the very edge of creativity. In 1935, innovation centred on the double pulsating chronograph, offering the stop and start functions without having to reset to zero; in 1938, the launch of

Only Watch 2019 - Patek Philippe 6300A Unique Steel Grandmaster Chime
Here it is… The multi-million watch, potential record-breaker as the most expensive watch to be auctioned by Only Watch – remember the 5208T from 2017 (sold for CHF 6,200,000) and the 5016A from 2015 (sold for CHF 7,300,000)? What you’re looking at here is a unique example of an extremely rare piece, Patek’s most complicated wristwatch ever, the Ref. 6300, direct descendant of the Grandmaster Chime, but with a stainless steel case and a salmon dial… All the ingredients for a frenzied auction! Meet the Patek Philippe 6300A for Only Watch 2019.?We all know that Patek Philippe ALWAYS donates impressive pieces to Only Watch… Watches with Grande Complication stature like the tourbillon minute repeater perpetual calendar in steel, or the minute repeater chronograph perpetual calendar in titanium. For Only Watch 2019, Patek goes even further in exclusivity, by taking its most complex watch (ref. 6300G) in the collection – only a handful of these watch

Nivada Grenchen Depthmaster Pac-Man Rebirth - Introducing, Price
The world of dive watches is immense… so much so that we sometimes forget that during the 1960s there were hundreds of brands and watches available. Some, of course, acquired cult status; some fell into oblivion. Others, however, are still known and collected by a niche group of enthusiasts. We’ve seen this recently with Aquastar, for instance. Another brand that was recently revived is Nivada Grenchen. Following the launch of the Chronomaster, the brand revives the Depthmaster “Pac-Man” along with a second version of the watch with Arabic numerals.BackgroundNivada was founded in 1926 by Jacob Schneider in Granges (Grenchen). In 1930 Nivada was one of the first companies to manufacture automatic watches. This led to the creation of Nivada's first waterproof automatic watch called the Antarctic in 1950. The watch was worn by members of the American Navy's Deep Freeze 1 during their expedition to the South Pole from 1955 to 1956. Among numerous models, the most wi