Buying Guide: Six Recently Uncovered Independent Watchmakers
For regular readers, it’s no real surprise that we have a deep-rooted passion for indie watchmaking;?in fact, it is the very reason for our existence. Although we tend to cover much more than high-end artisanal watchmaking, independent watchmaking forms part of our core. Uncovering new brands and projects from all corners of the globe genuinely gets our hearts racing and the juices flowing. For that simple fact, plus the notion that creativity finds a way to materialise in never-seen-before watches, we take a closer look at six newly founded independent brands ranging from intricate Metiers d’Art expressions to a do-it-yourself table clock – and everything in between!Fleming Watches Series One Launch EditionThe story of Fleming Watches is an example of a collector pursuing the dream of creating his own brand. American Thomas Fleming brought together several renowned industry partners and created the Fleming Series One. This alluring dress watch comes with a few surpri

Weekly Watch Photo - Vintage Omega Watches - Monochrome Watches
Another start of the week with our Weekly Watch Photo and today we’ll show you just how incredibly beautiful vintage Omega watches can be. Last week we showed you photos,?made by Etienne Malec, of a vintage LIP. Well, Etienne sent us some more photos and we think they are simply brilliant. Of course, the watches shown in the photos are very beautiful, but we also think that the way they are displayed adds to our desire to own one, to wear one. However these vintage beauties are not available anymore at a authorized retailer, so please enjoy the photos and after that we wish you “happy hunting.”The vintage Omega chronograph (shown above) is from 1957 and features the same movement that can be found in the vintage Omega Speedmaster shown below. That movement, a caliber 321, was developed by Albert Piguet of a company called Lemania, a well known movement manufacture that had been acquired in 1932 by Omega’s parent company (SSIH). Caliber 321 was used in the Speedm

The Buying Guide Goes Technical With Six Non-Swiss Lever Escapement Watches
Like clockwork, every Sunday, we group together a bunch of watches around a common theme in our Buying Guide. This can revolve around a whole range of topics, such as colours, shapes and materials but also a certain style or even complications. Very rarely do we go deep into the movement to distinguish a series of watches, but today is one of those days. The vast majority of the watches rely on the Swiss Lever Escapement, for which a sprung balance wheel works with a pallet fork and escape wheel to control the release of energy coming from the mainspring and, in turn, drive the hands. But there are different options than the not-so-efficient Swiss Lever Escapement out there, that are very much worthy of your attention! So, with that in mind, here are six watches that opt for different types of escapements to regulate a mechanical movement.The traditional setup for a Swiss Lever Escapement.To clarify a bit more, the Swiss Lever Escapement has been around for centuries and finds its root

Tudor 2015 Novelties - Tudor Baselworld 2015 - The Tudor new watches we hope to see - Monochrome-Watches
Here at Monochrome-Watches, we have a special attraction for Tudor. We may love for its serious and highly qualitative creations, Tudor ( ’s sister company) created some interesting, affordable, very well finished and mainly, really cool watches recently – such as the Heritage Black Bay Blue, the Heritage Ranger or the Heritage Chrono. Thus, there was no reason for us not to try to predict what could be the Tudor 2015 new models, the watches that Tudor could introduce at Baselworld 2015. We did it for this year, we did it for Tudor last year, and we are doing?it again now.Last year, just like we did for and Omega, we tried to guess the watches that Tudor could introduce at the Basel watch fair. We imagined a Black Bay with a black bezel and dial and we also imagined a Pelagos with blue dial and bezel. Tudor came at Baselworld with the?Heritage Black Bay equipped with a superb midnight blue bezel insert and a cleaner dial. We had?the right colour, we had the right watc

TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 12 Final Edition CAW211J.FC6476 - Introducing, Specs & Price
Yesterday, we introduced the new standard, modern, classic Monaco watch, now equipped with in-house calibre Heuer 02 replacing the now-discontinued blue-dial Monaco Calibre 12… The end of an era. Is it, really? Well, before permanently turning the page on the Calibre 12, TAG Heuer has a special surprise, with a new limited edition… Meet the TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 12 Final Edition.As we explained yesterday, there’s a new classic TAG Heuer Monaco in lieu of the Calibre 12 model. To make things clear, TAG is discontinuing one reference only, the more modern, slightly more elegant and more traditional version of the Monaco. This means the blue dial version with a sunray-brushed finish, radial applied indexes and inside the case, an ETA/Sellita modular chronograph movement with the crown classically positioned at 3 o’clock. This model, the reference CAW2111, is now out of the collection. On the other hand, don’t worry about the vintage-inspired Calibre 11 wat