Start of SIHH - Monochrome Watches
The Salon International de Haute Horlogerie has started. A few weeks back i already posted about the SIHH and the first novelty that was revealed…. the Richard Lange Pour Les Merites. The last few days more brands share their new masterpieces. You can read about them and see them at many watchforum like Perpetuelle, a forum dedicated to the love for beautiful timepieces.Here is a full list of all brands that will expose on the SIHH: A. Lange & Sohne Audemars Piguet Baume & Mercier Cartier Dunhill Girard Perregaux IWC Jaeger-LeCoultre JeanRichard Montblanc Panerai Parmigiani Piaget Ralph Lauren Roger Dubuis Vacheron Constantin Van Cleef & ArpelIn the next week i will post about the most remarkeble new releases and of course my personal favorites. Let me start with a very watch with a very special moonphase, the . Besides a very clean and classy design this watch features a manufacture movement, the Piaget 860P. This mechanical self-winding movement with 72 hours of pow

Buzz Aldrin & George Clooney Talk Shop during the Omega Speedmaster's 60th Anniversary Celebrations - Monochrome Watches
Last month I had the distinct privilege of?attending the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Omega Speedmaster. While I am usually rather skeptical about anniversaries of watches, I have no problem whatsoever with celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first watch on the moon. As part of the celebrations, two gentlemen who were present during the festivities, named Mr. Buzz Aldrin and Mr. George Clooney, got?together to?talk shop. While Buzz actually walked on the moon, George also had some experience (well, not really, but in the movie Gravity it looked cool) and they discussed what Buzz’s achievements meant to George, and millions of other Earthlings.?Without further ado…. here’s a transcript of the meeting between Buzz and George. Ad - Scroll to continue with article George: There he is!Buzz: Of my goodness, I get to meet George! George th

Moon Landing 50 - The Other Watch of Apollo 11, The Mission Control Heuer Stopwatch
We know all about the Omega Speedmaster ‘Moonwatch’, as the first wristwatch on the Moon, which cemented its place in the history when the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the Lunar surface on the wrist of Buzz Aldrin. But there’s a little-known Heuer stopwatch that played a small but very important role when Neil Armstrong was piloting the lunar module Eagle to land on the Moon.The iconic image of Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, his Speedmaster Professional around his wrist… but this wasn’t the only timepiece involved in mission Apollo 11.Since the initial landing site was too cavernous and rocky, Armstrong had to manoeuvre the Eagle to a different location. This, in return, caused extra fuel to be used and it had reached critical levels. In the event of all fuel being used without a safe landing, an abort would have been necessary and thus no landing on the Moon would have been possible.Image from Mission Control – one of the flight contr

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Kingsman Knife Limited Edition
There’s no denying Jaeger-LeCoultre’s mastery of ultra-thin, elegant watches. With this in mind, the team producing the latest film in the Kingsman agency series, The King's Man, chose JLC to provide an exclusive, purpose-built timepiece for the movie that captures its neo-retro universe… And as you can see, this new Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Kingsman Knife Limited Edition is very, very handsome indeed.This new model will be offered as a key part of The King's Man costume to collection' (which also includes shirts, suits, shoes and sunglasses), a series of accessories directly inspired or used in the latest film in the Kingsman?series. This new episode, The King's Man, starring Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Arterton, goes back 100 years to trace the origins of the Kingsman agency. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, the movie opens in US theatres on 18 September 2020. As a film that is set in the past, period-correct accessories were a priority for the production team.The

Introducing: The New Vacheron Constantin Traditionelle Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar
Vacheron Constantin celebrates its grand 270th anniversary this year. For a brand with such an illustrious and storied past, an anniversary of this calibre means rolling out the big guns. To commemorate the date, Vacheron Constantin unveils a new high-end manufacture calibre combining a tourbillon and a perpetual calendar. Limited to 127 pieces and presented in a platinum Traditionnelle case, the complexity of VC's first automatic tourbillon perpetual calendar calibre is complemented by a refined hand-guilloche dial and other special 270th-anniversary signatures.?The model selected to pay tribute to VC's longstanding haute horlogerie tradition, dating from 1755, is the Traditionnelle, the brand's repository of timeless, traditional models. With a diameter of 42mm, the platinum case of the new Traditionnelle has a thickness of 11.1mm, which is impressive given the complications inside. While this is the first automatic-driven tourbillon and perpetual calendar watch, the Maison had previ