Video - The 2020 Bvlgari Aluminium Watch Collection Explained
Bringing back an icon of the 1990s… Today, Bvlgari reintroduces its famed Aluminium Watch, a sporty, accessible, superbly designed and very cool collection comprising three models – two time-and-date automatic and one automatic chronograph – presented in matte aluminium cases with contrasting black rubber bezel and bracelets. After the introducing article published yesterday on MONOCHROME, today we chat with Bvlgari’s CEO, Jean-Christophe Babin, to talk about the comeback of the Bvlgari Aluminium Watch in the permanent collection, why it was (and still is) an important model, and what are the updates the brand has made to this very, very cool collection.More details on the watch?at www.bulgari.com. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Introducing the TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 16 Chrono Black Titanium
On the sidelines of SIHH 2017, TAG Heuer and the other watch brands in?the LVMH Group (Hublot and Zenith) will?be presenting novelties to journalists and retailers who have flocked to Geneva for the week. Following on from?the full Black Ceramic Heuer-01 we showed you earlier this week, TAG returns to?the roots of its collection, with a sporty and masculine Carrera Chronograph, dressed in black and beige, for a slight vintage look. Here is the?TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 16 Chrono Black Titanium with brown strap.This new watch is in the same vein as?existing watches of the brand, such as this model. Visually, we have the great, racing-oriented Carrera style, with the typical case (facetted lugs) and a legible outer tachymeter scale printed on the bezel. The dial features the usual large decimal numerals (and no hour indexes), a day and date configuration and an automatic chronograph movement (based on the 7750). This watch has been in the collection for 10 years already and so?TAG Heuer

BYOW (Build-Your-Own-Watch) - The Revolo Concept, An Affordable Way To Design A Unique Watch - Monochrome Watches
Admit it, most of us (if not ALL of us) have dreamt about it at one point; building your own watch. Whether it's our very own watch brand, or a Piece Unique. Normally, if you call it normal, this will cost you thousands if not hundreds of thousands, especially when you want to turn your concept into an actual brand. There is a solution though, and it goes by the name of Revolo. We take a look at what it is, and what it can do for you through our very own Monochrome Piece Unique.The Build-your-own-Watch concept isn't new, nor is it as unique as you might think (but it all depends on the execution of said concept, whether or not you should consider it!) Revolo understand this pretty well and offer a huge range of options to choose from, all available in a simple yet effective online configurator. You can really get crazy and build something that is a reflection of your personal ideas (or that might be downright ridiculous to others). Don't think about that one second though, build what Y

Only Watch 2017 - Patek Philippe 5208T (Unique Titanium, Minute Repeater, Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar Watch)
Only Watch 2017, the biennial charity auction, just unveiled its highly?special?pieces… and because we know that many of you will ask for it, here is the big one, the unique, titanium Patek Philippe 5208T, made for the 7th edition of Only Watch.Following on from?the Steel?5016A-010 Minute Repeater Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar made for the 2015 edition, a watch which?became for a year, the highest priced wristwatch of all time (sold for CHF 7.3M, before Phillips Auctions and Aurel Bacs sold the steel Patek 1518 for over CHF 11M), Patek had no option but?to return to this year’s event?with heavy artillery… and they did. Ad - Scroll to continue with article For Only Watch 2017, the Geneva-based brand comes with no less than a real Grand Complication (the combination of a calendar, a timing device and a chiming mechanism), principally?the?Patek Ph

First Look: The New Jaeger-LeCoultre Polaris Chronograph Gradient Grey
Inspired by the iconic 1968 Memovox Polaris dive watch with its underwater alarm, a modern Polaris collection was released in 2018 by Jaeger-LeCoultre. As the brand's only sports watch collection, the Polaris Chronograph with its tachymeter bezel to measure speed over a fixed distance is the definitive sporting complication forging a link between JLC and the world of motorsports. Five years down the line, the Polaris Chronograph speeds back on the scene with a dashing gradient grey lacquered dial powered by a new, in-house integrated chronograph movement.Dashboard instrumentsAlthough we might associate Jaeger-LeCoultre's sporting credentials with the genteel game of Polo thanks to the Reverso, there is another lesser-known chapter of the brand's history when Jaeger manufactured cockpit instruments for Allied Forces during WWI. Following the war, Edmond Jaeger and Jacques-David LeCoultre teamed up to produce dashboard instruments for cars, such as tachymetres, speedometers and fuel gaug