Pre-Baselworld 2015 - Oris Divers Sixty-Five - Specs and Price - Monochrome-Watches
Oris is known for creating interesting, solid, affordable but classical tool watches, including a bunch a very good dive?timepieces, such as the recently revealed Oris Aquis Depth Gauge. However, for this edition of Baselworld, the brand will strike hard and as they are?about to introduce a very cool watch, inspired by a practically unknown (and it’s a shame) vintage diving tool. It is called the?Oris Divers Sixty-Five and it could easily?change your opinion about Oris.The 1965 Vintage Oris Diver that inspired the 2015 editionThe watch you can see here is the one that inspired the new?Oris Divers Sixty-Five. It was introduced in 1965 and came with a 36mm chromium-plated brass case with a domed plexi-crystal, a bi-directional rotating bezel painted in black, and a black plastic tropic design' strap. It was water-resistant to 100m and featured a date window. Now that you have the ancestor, let’s have a look at the 2015?Oris Divers Sixty-Five. Ad - Scroll to continu

Industry Swatch Group 2022 Half Year Sales Report
Swiss watch giant Swatch Group has just issued its 2022 half-year sales report, for the period January 1st – June 30th. At CHF 3,612 million, net sales are up 7.4% compared to the previous year at constant exchange rates, or 6.5% at current rates. The operating profit is up 25.1% at CHF 503 million.The Group reports double-digit growth for major markets, in particular Europe, America and the Middle East. However, the business has been impacted negatively by China's latest Covid lockdowns, just like for other luxury conglomerates. Swatch Group evaluates that sales losses have been approximately CHF 400 million, due to closures of warehouses and many retail stores in April and May in China. The Ukraine conflict had less than a 1% impact on Group sales.Commenting on its brands' performance, Swatch Group highlighted the impressive success of the Bioceramic MoonSwatch. Interestingly, at the same time, Omega was confronted with supply shortages impacting the Speedmaster Moonwatch, afte

Live from SIHH 2019 - Nicolas Baretzki of Montblanc - Monochrome Watches
Nicolas Baretzki, CEO of Montblanc, describes 2019 as a year that “will complete a chapter we started writing in 2015”. Referring to the full integration of Montblanc and Minerva, the brand will be “reworking all the product lines from a Minerva approach”.Focusing on two product lines, the Heritage Collection inspired by Minverva chronographs from the 1940s and 1950s, and the 1858 collection, these are the highlights Baretzki shares with us: Designed to capture the spirit of Minverva’s exploration?watches of the 1920s and 1930s, the 1858 Geosphere Limited Edition features a winning combination of a 42mm bronze case and a khaki dial. Equipped with a world time complication featuring two rotating hemispheres, Baretzki is sure this will be the model to remember from 2019. To consolidate the adventurous spirit of the watch, the rotating bezel is graduated like a compass. The Heritage Collection is vintage to the core and picks up on the sophistication and eleg

Hands-On - Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt - A New Concept with Revolutionary 3D Flying Oscillator
Compliant mechanisms are flexible mechanisms that transfer an input force or displacement to another point through elastic body deformation. Covered in detail here, they offer huge innovation potential for mechanical watchmaking. Further proof of this revolution can be found in the latest version of the Ulysse Nardin Freak. Packed with innovative applications of flexible parts, the Freak NeXt features a revolutionary flying oscillator whose tridimensional architecture is based on flexible silicon blades. Meet the latest model in a long lineage of innovative watches, the Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt. And if it is still a concept watch for now, it might make it into production in the very near future.Here, we are dealing with the very essence of watchmaking and chronometry. The invention of the hairspring (17th?century, by Robert Hooke / Christiaan Huygens) dramatically increased the accuracy of watches. A thin coiled spring attached to the balance wheel allowed it to oscillate back and fort

Introducing: The Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT
The model Tudor fans have been clamouring for finally materialises with the release of the Black Bay 58 GMT. Although the Black Bay collection is no stranger to dual time zone models – the first Tudor Black Bay GMT was introduced in 2018 – this is the first time the more compact 39mm Black Bay 58 earns its wings. Decked with an appealing neo-vintage flair, the two-toned burgundy and black bezel and gilt touches evoke the golden age of air travel in the 1950s when travelling across time zones was the ultimate sign of a glamorous lifestyle.Following the launch of the popular 41mm Black Bay series in 2012, Tudor introduced the Black Bay 58 in 2018. Appealing to a wider audience with its more compact 39mm diameter, the Black Bay 58 was closer in size to its forefather, the 37mm Tudor Submariner 7924 of 1958, the brand's first 200m water-resistant diver's watch, also known as the Big Crown'. Ad - Scroll to continue with article