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Hands-On - Moritz Grossmann Atum Hamatic with Pendulum Winding System (Specs & Price)
The vast majority of mechanical watches available nowadays rely on a central oscillating weight to provide power to their movements. Of course, we see lots of variations on this theme - for instance the winching system of the Jacob & Co. Twin Turbo Furious, off-centred micro-rotors, peripheral rotors or even linear rotors. However, the principle is the same and originates?from early pendulum clocks.? To celebrate and bring the pendulum-style movement of clocks into the 21st?century, Moritz Grossmann presents the Atum Hamatic.BackgroundThe often overlooked manufacture of Moritz Grossmann, mentioned in our Germans do it better? article, produces some stellar watches with surprising complications and features that stand out from the crowd. And crowd is a relative term here, considering the fact the brand produces very low numbers of watches per year. The trademark Saxon style is present in almost every watch, with clean and legible dials and superbly finished movements. Moritz Grossma
Lung Lung and her Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Frosted Gold Carolina Bucci Limited Edition - Monochrome Watches
It’s not often that a woman is the interviewee in our Collector’s Series, but today Lung Lung Thun is star of the show!?Lung Lung Thun is a 31-year-old securities broker with her own business, working in Hong Kong and Singapore. When she walked past an Audemars Piguet Boutique in Singapore in 2010, looking for her next watch after coming to terms with the fact that the Chanel J12 she had just purchased just didn't suit her at all, she knew it had to be a Royal Oak. Lung Lung is pretty active on Instagram (@lunglungthun) and judging by her posts she’s a proper watch enthusiast. Now let’s talk about that super cool frosted AP Royal Oak of hers!Photo by Anthony KwanFrank, MONOCHROME Watches – How did you personally got to know Audemars Piguet? Do you remember when this was?Lung Lung Thun: I remember it very clearly! 2010. I was walking passed an AP boutique in Singapore. I was looking for my next watch after coming to terms with the fact the J12 I had purchas
Six Of The Very Best New Watches That Pair Titanium With High-End Mechanics
With the new year well on its way, there have already been a ton of immensely cool watches being presented. Whether it’s new materials and colours in existing collections, completely new models or even entirely new brands, there’s no shortage of news in 2024. News from mainstream brands, but also from indie watchmakers and everything in between. As we do every week, we take a look at what’s what and group together a series of high-end watches all relying on the lightweight properties of titanium. Although we’ve touched upon this topic in the past, the six watches we’re featuring today all came by in the past couple of months. So with that in mind, here are six more high-end titanium watches for you to consider!Zenith Chronomaster Sport TitaniumThe Zenith Chronomaster Sport already quite lived up to its name, but the Titanium edition takes it up a few more notches. The lightweight chronograph watch still looks amazing but has an almost tone-on-tone light gr
Hands-On - Norqain Independence 20 Kenissi Manufacture Movement
Norqain is a young watch brand, and even though it launched only 2 years ago, it is already well-established and has built a comprehensive collection of sports/adventure watches. Well-executed and nicely designed models are proposed, all powered by mechanical movements (until now supplied by Sellita). Today, the brand moves one step further in its quest for independence, with a new watch suitably named Independence 20, and featuring for the first time a manufacture movement by Kenissi.This new era for Norqain doesn’t come as a surprise, since we already announced in early 2020 that the brand signed a partnership with Kenissi for delivery of higher-end movements. A recently created company, Kenissi is often presented as the industrial arm of Tudor. This movement manufacturer offers a range of robust, high-performance calibres – 3-hand, time-and-date and GMT. It was created to produce movements for 's sister company and for Breitling. In 2019, Chanel announced it had taken a
News: Shakeups at Richemont, Lambert back as CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, Perves as new CEO of Vacheron
Swiss luxury powerhouse Richemont has just announced yet another round of shifts in top management positions, with new direction for two of its most prestigious watchmaking brands, Vacheron Constantin and Jaeger-Lecoultre. Effective January 1st, 2025, the nominations of Jer?me Lambert and Laurent Perves follow the appointments announced earlier this year. Nicolas Bos was promoted from CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels to CEO of Richemont. Catherine Renier, previously CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre, was appointed as the head of Van Cleef & Arpels. Louis Ferla, previously CEO of Vacheron Constantin, succeeds Cyrille Vigneron as CEO of Cartier.Louis Ferla, previously at the head of VC, now CEO of Cartier, and Laurent Perves, the new CEO of VacheronThe appointment of Laurent Perves is no surprise given that rumours have been swirling ever since Louis Ferla was appointed as CEO of Cartier. It also appears as a logical option given the long-standing history of Perves with Vacheron Constantin, havin
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