Online Watch Shopping While the Confinement Lasts - Part 2
A few days ago we gave a big shout-out to some of our friends who also run online watch magazines. However, the online world for watch shopping offers much more choice! Now that you’re (most likely) in confinement – hopefully well and healthy – you can still buy watches and have them delivered to your door. Besides the friends that we already mentioned in the previous article, it can also be helpful to have a look at webshops of retailers and brands who have embraced e-commerce. If you prefer pre-owned watches, you can shop online for second-hand and vintage watches from many sources and some places even offer certified pre-owned watches. Here’s an overview of the sources that we as watch collectors use ourselves.?Strolling in the shopping streets, looking at the display windows, or even drooling in front of that one watch displayed in the store window, is not going to happen for the foreseeable weeks or even months. You will have to settle for doing this virtua

Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon (Price)
Last year Parmigiani entered the hyper-competitive realm of the luxury sports watch with its Tonda PF collection, a move instigated by its new CEO, Guido Terreni. Debuting with an automatic time-and-date (micro-rotor), a chronograph, an annual calendar and an impressive split-seconds chronograph with a gold engine in 2021, Parmigiani unveils a sophisticated flying tourbillon during this 2022 edition of Watches & Wonders. Although a flying tourbillon might not be everybody's idea of a complication for a sports watch, the refinement, finishings and deliberate minimalism that characterise the Tonda PF collection work beautifully in this context. Fitted with Parmigiani's ultra-thin automatic PF517 movement with micro-rotor, the full-platinum Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon follows in the footsteps of the majestic platinum Tonda PF Split Seconds Chronograph launched in 2021.Bare essentialsSimplicity and refinement are the operative words here. The case and dial, crafted in platinum, provide

Pre-SIHH 2019 - Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Models In Anthracite (Specs & Price)
It might be hard to believe but we're already into December, which means it’s nearly January. Incredible as it sounds, the first major watch fair of the New Year is just a few weeks away. That means it's preview time, before the major watch fairs start. We've already shown you several models from the likes of IWC, Piaget, HYT and Laurent Ferrier and?now it's Montblanc's turn. First up are two new versions of one of our favorites, namely the Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph. Here are two new versions of the Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph.Before you say anything, yes, calling these watches new' is probably a bit of a stretch. They're new in the technical sense of the word but practically speaking, they are modest extensions of the existing range. This makes sense given last year's refresh, which included a new dial layout and redesigned case. Ad - Scroll to continue with article

Introducing the Patek Philippe Multi-Scale Chronograph Ref. 5975 - Limited Edition 175th Anniversary (live photos, specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
To celebrate its 175th Anniversary, Patek Philippe chose to release a pure demonstration of it watchmaking capacities, with certainly one of the most complicated wristwatches ever seen (alongside the Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4), the already iconic and controversial?Grandmaster Chime. This watch?is made only to dream. However the 175th Anniversary?collection also has?more reasonably priced but highly interesting timepieces that will for sure create a huge demand into the community of collectors. One of these limited editions retained our?attention, a chronograph with a unique approach and a very pure design, the?Patek Philippe Multi-Scale Chronograph Ref. 5975.The Patek Philippe chronographs are among the most desirable and collectible watches of the entire industry, whether they are new models, such as the Ref. 5270 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph, or vintage and rare editions such as the Ref. 2499?Perpetual Calendar Chronograph or the Ref. 130 Split Second that Christie’s wi

Patek Philippe World-Time Chronograph 5930P (Specs Price)
The Patek Philippe 5930 World Time Chronograph was first introduced in 2016, being inspired by a one-of-a-kind watch from 1940. It combines the practicality of a chronograph function with that of a world timer. The two iconic complications in Patek‘s repertoire are now presented in an updated, green-coloured platinum version. This is the Patek Philippe World Time Chronograph 5930P.When it was launched 5 years ago, we were very impressed with the finesse of the Patek Philippe 5930G World Time Chronograph. Dressed in white gold, with a blue dial, it was everything you'd expect from the Maison in a traveller's chronograph watch, and more – and also with a bit of modernity in it. Ad - Scroll to continue with article Patek Philippe has decided it was time for the white gold 5930G to be joined by a platinum sibling, the 5930P. The habillage remains the sam