A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition Salmon
There are many watches that we’ve named ‘iconic’ or ’emblematic’ over the years, but few modern timepieces can rival the status of the Lange 1 when it comes to high-end, elegant and finely manufactured watches. A watch that has defined the brand since its resurrection in 1994 – thanks to the joint work of Walter Lange and Gunter Blumlein – and that has been made in dozens of variations over the years, it has surprisingly never been made in a perpetual calendar-only edition… until recently. Surely, there has been a tourbillon QP, but it took the Saxon brand 27 years to propose what is a classic of haute horlogerie. And the result is, without a doubt, very convincing, as we’re about to see with the stunning Lange 1 Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition in white gold with “salmon” pink gold dial… Yes, we love this combination at MONOCHROME!The Lange 1…This watch, with its unusually offset yet elegant display based

Pre SIHH 2015: IWC Portuguese Annual Calendar ref. 5035 - Monochrome Watches
In 2015 IWC will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Portuguese. The first Portuguese was developed at the end of the 1930’s and featured the clean design, that we know the Portuguese for today. In the past 75 year it has grown?to become an entire collection, or family of watches as IWC calls it. There will be several ‘celebratory’ models and ‘updates’, and there’s the new IWC Portuguese Annual Calendar (Ref. 5035), which is IWC's very first annual calendar and it displays the month, date and day, in three separate, semicircular aperture?at 12 o'clock.?The new IWC Portuguese Annual Calendar shares, for a large part, the looks of the Portuguese Automatic, which is also powered by a 7-days automatic movement. In size it is slightly bigger, and with a diameter of 44,2mm and thickness of 15,3mm, it comes close to the dimensions of the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar. It’s?not the smallest watch, but that’s not what IWC is known for, at least

Hands-On: The New, Slimmer Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Tribute Small Seconds
What started life in 1931 as a pragmatic solution developed by Jaeger-LeCoultre for British officers in India who were constantly smashing the glass on their watches during polo matches is considered a genuine icon in the watch world today. Its patented case, which was “capable of sliding in its support and being completely turned over”, never ceases to fascinate and has offered its dual faces to house everything from complications to miniature works of art. The latest iterations of the Reverso Tribute Small Seconds, a function that was incorporated on the Reverso in 1934, feature slimmer 18k pink gold cases and dials in sunray-brushed black, silver and burgundy.Why only talking about the Gold Models…?There were actually 4 new versions of the Reverso Tribute Small Seconds presented at Watches and Wonders 2023, including 3 new (and very attractive) pink gold editions, as well as a new steel model, under the reference Q713842J, with a silver dial and a Fagliano Collecti

Two virtual videogame and movie cars taken off-screen and into reality
Today The Petrolhead Corner is turning to the virtual automotive world as the origin for real-life, working and driving cars. If you’re anything like me, you would have spent a good amount of time on video game consoles playing driving and racing games such as Driver, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed, Forza or any of the annual F1 racing games. Or, if gaming isn’t your thing, maybe you’ve seen memorable movies such as Back to the Future, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Le Mans, Bullit, any of the James Bond movies, the Fast and Furious franchise or the Cars trilogy. In both the world of gaming, and the animated movie industry, there have been countless fantasy cars that might be modelled after a genuine car but never existed in reality. Or have they? Let’s check out two cool stories where either a video game or animated movie car was made into a real car you could (theoretically) drive on public roads!From videogame to reality: Mclaren solus gtThe Gran Turismo franchise is o

Introducing Vacheron Constantin Traditionelle Tourbillon Retrograde Openface (Live Pics)
As they say, if you've got it, flaunt it. Vacheron Constantin's latest combination of a tourbillon with a retrograde date display does just that and stages its refined mechanics in a contemporary, multi-level openworked dial. As a historic manufacture that listens to current trends, Vacheron Constantin welcomes another model into its traditional Traditionelle collection with an ultra-contemporary yet refined 21st-century aesthetic.Openworked or skeletonised watches are in vogue, no doubt about that, and we tend to think they are novel ways of exposing mechanical movements. However, if you're a company like Vacheron Constantin with a 268-year history, chances are you might even have a couple of openworked models in your archives. It turns out that VC did, in fact, have an openworked model in its archives in the form of a pocket watch with an astronomical calendar from 1918 (ref. 10937). Following a hiatus of almost 100 years, VC revisited the openworked dial concept with ref. 47247 in 2