Announcing - Watch the GPHG 2022 Tonight Live on MONOCHROME
Tonight, as every year, is the celebration of watchmaking, watchmakers and watches in general It is the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve – or GPHG 2022?– the Oscars of the watchmaking industry. Several categories are represented (ladies, men, complicated and even affordable watches with the Challenge category) and the best watches of the year will be awarded the coveted Golden Hand prize in each category. And of course, the prize we're all waiting for, the Aiguille d'Or or the best of the show, celebrating the best watch introduced in 2022. As MONOCHROME is one of the official press partners of the show, we'll be broadcasting the event live from 06:30 PM (Europe Time) tonight. Stay tuned on MONOCHROME!As a reminder, here's the complete list of the GPHG 2022 finalists.Ladies’ Arnold & Son Perpetual Moon Eclipse I Chaumet Deferlante Secret Timepiece Chopard Alpine Eagle 33 Konstantin Chaykin Harley Quinn Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Automatic Van Cleef & Arpels

SIHH update - Cartier - Monochrome Watches
One of the most remarkable news this year is the end of Collection Privee?Cartier Paris. This remarkable collection of timelessly designed wristwatches will be replaced by the bigger and bolder Fine Watchmaking Collection.?This year the special editions known as ‘Collection Privee Cartier Paris’ or CPCP, and known for the word ‘Paris’ on the dial, will seize to be produced. If you want more information about this collection than I can recommend the website Troisanneaux.com?that is entirely dedicated to Cartier’s mechanical wristwatches.Despite this fact, Cartier comes with a very strong line-up this year. Most models are based on the Tank Americain and the Santos 100 and are rather complicated. Here are my favourites ?? Ad - Scroll to continue with article The new Santos 100 now features an beautiful skeletonised movement. The manua

First Look: The Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Tourbillon x SORAI
When the Big Bang exploded on the watch scene in 2005, it was the paragon of an oversized, high-octane, octagonal sports watch flaunting an unusual fusion of materials. A decade later, the Spirit of Big Bang joined the lineup of Hublot. Embracing a similar concept, the Spirit proposed a more complex case with a tonneau-shaped, cambered profile, lateral rubber bumpers, and openworked dials. One sub-collection in the Spirit of Big Bang family is dedicated to partnerships, with models like the Sang Bleu made in collaboration with tattoo artist Maxime Plescia-Buchi. The latest partnership sees Hublot and SORAI - the rhino conservation organisation - united to raise awareness and funds to fight the threats facing rhinos today. Marking the fourth Hublot x SORAI watch, but the first Spirit of Big Bang, this edition comes in a grey ceramic case with a tourbillon regulator and is limited to 30 pieces.SORAI, which stands for Save our Rhinos Africa and India, was founded by former England cricket

Hands-On - Oris Waldenburgerbahn Limited Edition (Specs, Price)
There is no way to describe the Oris Waldenburgerbahn Limited Edition watch without a history lesson, so here we are. As the name suggests, there had to be a Bahn in Waldenburg, and there was a rail work indeed, a 13km low-cost and efficient one that opened in 1880 to connect the beautiful Waldenburg valley villages, including Holstein, the future home to the Oris factory. Oris founders, based in Le Locle, thought to settle their business in Holstein in 1904 and used the “lifeline of the valley” to build their watch business on the principles of “reliability, quality and innovation“, shared by the Waldenburgerbahn operators. This year, Waldenburgerbahn, or WB, will be reopened after a CHF 300 million renovation and upgrade to the latest transport technology. To “capture affection and gratitude for the role played in our story by the Waldenburgerbahn“, the brand decided to create a particular watch with a design based on the classic Big Crown Pointer

Baselworld 2019 - Zenith Defy Inventor (Live Pics, Video, Specs & Price)
More than three centuries after the invention of the sprung balance (by Hooke/Huygens), the oscillator is back in the limelight. Exploring new frontier and technological breakthroughs in mechanical watchmaking, the oscillator is considered the crowning glory for the most inventive and skillful watchmakers. Just a few days after the presentation of the Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt (still a concept watch) and its innovative 3D suspended oscillator, Zenith returns with the commercial version of the revolutionary Defy Lab Meet the Zenith Defy Inventor.The way watches and clocks are regulated has not changed for centuries. The sprung balance has been the exclusive time basis for the mechanical watch. Paced by a thin coiled spring, the oscillations of the balance wheel control the speed at which the gears of the watch rotate and thus its rate. The sprung balance has been optimized to the greatest possible extent but its principle remained unchanged – until very recently. Ad - Sc