Buying Guide - The 10 Best Chronograph Watches of 2020 (So Far)
The chronograph, one of our favourite features and one of the most complex types of movement around, continues to be one of the most popular and practical complications. Chronographs can be started, stopped and reset to measure short (or longer) intervals of time. Over the years, these were adapted and rethought into specialized tools. Being used in specific fields such as aviation, space exploration, military operations or motor racing contributed largely to forge their iconic character. Despite the situation, an array of new chronograph watches hit the market in 2020. Here are 10 models that particularly impressed us. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Audemars Piguet [Re]master01 Selfwinding ChronographDon't call it a vintage re-edition. This limited edition is a contemporary remastering of an elegant 1940s hand-wound chronograph, with a distinctive two-ton

Monochrome top 10 reviews of 2014 - Monochrome-Watches
Here at Monochrome-Watches, we define our job not only as journalists but also as testers. We love watches, all sorts of watches (although we have a strong preference for anything that is made with passion and by skilled hands!) In order to let you know how it these watches actually are in their natural habitat (i.e. on the wrist), we write lengthy watch reviews in which we share our experience and our feelings. Reviews are essential for us as we think it’s the best?way to?inform you and to allow you to really understand?how these timepieces work and feel on the wrist. Brice and I sat down and choose our favourite watch reviews of 2014. It has been a spectacular year! We published many reviews, and we have much awaiting to be written and published. In the coming months we’ll show you our watch reviews of a Richard Mille RM 033, a De Bethune DB28z, a Glashutte-Original Senator Chronometer, an Armin Strom Gravity Racing, an Oris 110 Years L.E. and many, many more. So next yea

Industry News: Swatch Group 2023 Results Show Growth, Positive Outlook for 2024
Following the announcement in July 2023 of its half-year results showing an impressive growth of 18% in sales, Swatch Group has just issued its key figures for the entire year 2023. The Biel-based conglomerate, owner of brands such as Omega, Longines, Tissot or Breguet, reports sales up by 12.6% at constant exchange rates, or 5.2% at current rates to CHF 7,888 million. Despite a slightly slower pace during the fourth quarter of the year, which might indicate a switch in the overall state of the business and industry, the Group remains positive in its 2024 outlook and expects “excellent growth prospects” for the year to come.?While not reaching the pre-pandemic sales levels – the Group reported sales of CHF 8,475 million in 2018 – Swatch Group can report strong sales in 2023 with close to CHF 8 billion turnover. That being said, the group also indicated a huge exchange rate impact and a challenging currency environment, with a hugely negative currency impact that

Porsche Goes Full-Electric on Road, on Track... and on Track with a Road Car - Monochrome Watches
Your weekly dosage of electricity-infused car news is up… That’s how we will probably start our automotive-related articles in a decade from now! For guys of passion like us, here at MONOCHROME, the topic of electric cars is still quite far from our usual standards of petrol-loaded dreams. Passion is what makes us love cars and watches. Passion is our own fuel, and fuel is what powers our passion. But enough digressions, today’s topic is about Porsche and how the Stuttgart-based brand is trying (hard) to keep up with the reality of emissions and eco-friendly behaviour and to integrate what Porsche has been for now over 60 years: a thing of passion. And you’ll see, they are not only trying but making it real.On the Road – Porsche TaycanHeretic, scandalous, irrelevant… We’ve heard those words from hardcore Porsche fans more than once. They did it in 1996 when the brand introduced its entry-level Boxster. They did it in 1997 when Porsche stopped t

Vacheron Constantin Patrimony World Time with all time zones - Monochrome Watches
Until now there was no wrist watch telling time in all time zones on planet earth. The new Vacheron Constantin Patrimony World Time is the first wrist watch able to tell the time in all 37 time zones.There are many wrist watches with a second time zone or GMT complication. They all have one thing in common and that is they can only indicate time zones with steps of a complete hour. But there are more than just 24 time zones on our planet! Some with an offset of half hour and even timezones with an offset of only a quarter of an hour! The new Vacheron Constantin Patrimony World Time is the first wrist watch that does justice to every time zone we know. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The display consists of three dials: the central disk displays a so-called? Lambert projector map and city names. Above the map, a sapphire disk shaded on one side indicates day