First Look: The New Furlan Marri Disco Volante Collection
Co-founded by Swiss industrial designer Andrea Furlan and watch collector Hamad Al Marri, Furlan Marri launched on Kickstarter in 2021 with a beautifully designed vintage chronograph powered by a hybrid mecha-quartz engine. The next act, in 2022, was an equally handsome vintage black sector dial equipped with a mechanical movement that won over the MONOCHROME team. Today, Furlan Marri sticks to its vintage designs and mechanical guns and releases a trilogy of Disco Volante models in 38mm cases with manual-winding Peseux movements.The Disco Volante or Flying Saucer watch design has been kicking around since the late 1930s, an Art Deco meets futuristic space-age watch featured in the catalogues of many top-tier brands. The classic traits of the Disco Volante – manifested in models from Omega, Vacheron Constantin, Patek Philippe, Cartier and Universal Geneve, all the way down the decades to Gerald Genta's 1953 design (ref. 5093) for Audemars Piguet – are round cases, an absenc

Introducing the Girard-Perregaux Tri-Axial Tourbillon now in White Gold (specs & price) - Monochrome-Watches
As every object located on earth, a watch is subjected?to several forces. Together with magnetic fields, the worst enemy of an escapement is gravity, a force?strong enough to deregulate a watch if it remains constantly in the same position. In order to counteract this undesirable effect, a well-known watchmaker named Abraham-Louis Breguet created the tourbillon. This was a perfect ally to pocket watches but the time of wristwatches came and the efficiency of the single axis tourbillon declined. For this reason, We now have some multiple axis escapement and one of the most stunning one is made by Girard-Perregaux and comes with 3 axis and for this year, GP brings?a new visual appearance to its Tri-Axial Tourbillon.?The goal of a tourbillon is (on paper) quite simple: it?aims to counter the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece (thus the escapement) is stuck in a certain position. This was es

Introducing The New Chronometre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1R.6-1 (SIHH 2018)
For the SIHH 2018, Ferdinand Berthoud, the high-end brainchild of Karl Friedrich Scheufele (co-CEO of Chopard), enriches its growing collection with a surprising watch, a true connoisseur’s piece with a strong focus on chronometry. Its original regulator-type display and its ultra-resistant carburised stainless steel case are new, yet its tourbillon/fusee-chain movement is the same marvel we knew already.?Like the previous editions of the Chronometre FB 1, on which this new?Chronometre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1R.6-1 is based, this watch is an ode to the past and to the glorious watchmaker Berthoud. This watch is equipped with several?complications inspired by scientific instruments and marine chronometers. All of them have the same goal: improving precision. And while this was already visible on the previous watches introduced by the brand, the new one makes a statement in terms of display too. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Hublot Big Bang Ferrari Unico Chronograph 2016 Editions (with price)
Pairing up what is certainly the most emblematic sports-car manufacture, Ferrari, with what might be the most hyped watch brand, Hublot, and you have as a result a?strong, flamboyant bond. Since 2011, these two?brands joined forces to create watches that are in the vein of the philosophy of both the car brand and the watch brand: strong, bold, highly masculine and, using Ferrari’s expertise, innovative and performant. For 2016, based?Ferrari’s latest models and technologies, Hublot introduces?3 new editions of their bold and sporty Big Bang Ferrari Unico.It’s not the first time we introduce to you watches showing a collaboration between Hublot and Ferrari. Robin did for instance a review of the Big Bang Ferrari Speciale Unico Ceramic and he later took an overall look at the partnership between these two brands in a recent article. What we can immediately spot when looking at the Hublot / Ferrari watches is how the timepieces can integrate easily elements of these spor

Hands-On: A True Surprise of Only Watch 2023, The Furlan Marri Secular Perpetual Calendar
You probably know?Furlan Marri?already. Founded in 2021 by Andrea Furlan (Swiss industrial designer) and Hamad Al Marri (watch collector and artist from the Middle East), it started as a crowdfunded project on Kickstarter. The first watch, a handsome vintage-inspired mechaquartz chronograph, made quite some noise. The second model, an automatic time-only this time, gathered some attention again with its cool design. But up until now, we’ve been looking at carefully designed watches for sure, but in an accessible price range. Things are changing and the two men have been moving faster than anyone imagined. Even if still a unique prototype offered for charity auction Only Watch 2023, the next watch is playing in a far higher category.?Co-developed with Dominique Renaud and Julien Tixier, we’re talking about?an ultra-simplified, modular secular perpetual calendar, with a?single adjustment once every 400 years. Now that’s what we call a surprising move.?Secular calendar&#