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Recap: The Best Calendar Watches of 2024
Talking about calendar watches is a vast topic, which can range from fairly simple mechanisms to some of the most complex movements watchmakers have invented. Indeed, this category ranges from the classic triple calendar (mechanically, an evolution of the date complication with no self-adjustment of the length of the months) to the finest version, the secular perpetual calendar, watches that can automatically adapt to the smallest oddities of our Gregorian calendar. Looking at this category, we have to say that 2024 didn’t disappoint and brought us some incredible watches – one of them even won the prestigious GPHG. So here is our selection of the best calendar watches of 2024, from an eccentric planetarium to a secular perpetual calendar.Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar John MayerThere are multiple reasons why we’ve selected this John Mayer x Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar in this list of the best calendar watches. The first is quite obvious
GIVE AWAY: Another IWC Wall Clock! - Monochrome Watches
When we gave away the first IWC Wall Clock, Monochrome’s managing editor Brice Goulard was enjoying a well-deserved vacation. Today he’s on his way to Miami to join the TAG Heuer team at Art Basel in Miami. However back on topic… we’re giving away a second IWC wall clock! The first give-away was already hugely successful and I’m very happy that IWC agreed to make another wall clock available for Monochrome’s 10th anniversary give-aways.?The end of the year is already near, and we still have a few give-aways to go. Next up will be several Jaeger-LeCoultre year books, five A. Lange & Sohne books, notebooks and pens, and Montblanc watch pouches with the Monochrome logo embossed. Not too bad if I may say so! So stay tuned, register for the give-away, and have a change to win this super cool IWC wall clock. This IWC wall clock measures 40 cm (approx. 16 inch) in diameter and has the looks of a Portugieser, with similar ra
Introducing the IWC Big Pilot Watch Edition 'Le Petit Prince' - Monochrome-Watches
IWC comes back with a new limited edition, honoring?one of its favorite ambassadors (unfortunately not with us anymore), Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and writer, and its most famous character, ‘le Petit Prince’. Using the same concept as several other editions of the Pilot collection, it is now the Big Pilot that is paying tribute to one of the most classical books of all time. Please welcome the?IWC Big Pilot Watch Edition ‘Le Petit Prince’.Several other watches of the Pilot collection had been used to serve as a tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery?and ‘Le Petit Prince’. Remember in 2013, we introduced you to the?IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar and Mark XVII Limited Special Edition ‘Le Petit Prince‘. This year we had the chance to get our hands on the chronograph edition. If you look closely at those 3 watches, they are all sharing a same scheme: pilot watches adorned with a special dial, a distinctive strap and, of course, a casebac
GIVE AWAY: 3 Patek Philippe books and the 2016 Patek Philippe necktie (in orange) - Monochrome Watches
Again it’s time for a new installment of the Monochrome 10th anniversary give-away, and today we have the pleasure to announce some spectacular gifts (again) that one of our readers can win. For this sweepstake we will be giving away a copy of the Patek Philippe Watches volume I & II books, a copy of the 175th anniversary book, a Collection Book volume II, and a Patek Philippe 2016 necktie in our beloved colour, orange. All these gifts are made available by Patek Philippe in Geneva, and Steltman Watches, an authorized Patek Philippe retailer from my hometown The Hague.?Since this Patek Philippe sweepstake comprises so many gifts, we will ask you what your favorite is, and take that into account when drawing the winners. Like always, we’ll ask you a few question about choice in watches. First off… The Patek Philippe Watches Volume I&II books, from the Patek Philippe Museum. As we described it before, a must-have book for the discer
Introducing Moritz Grossmann Benu Emirates Watch Club (Specs & Price)
As already reported with the Qatar Watch Club in recent years, there are more and more groups of watchmaking enthusiasts flourishing around the world, specifically in countries where horological culture is slightly more recent than in our old continent. These local initiatives to encourage collecting are a great way to generate passion and increase horological knowledge among their members. To create a community feeling, these groups often create watches dedicated to their members. The latest in line is the Emirates Watch Club (here on Instagram), a group of collectors in the United Arab Emirates, which has just unveiled a watch with a stunning dial, the Moritz Grossmann Benu Emirates Watch Club.Moritz Grossmann is one of the top German watchmakers, a proper manufacture with traditional execution and watches with a historic feel, not only in the design but also in some of the technical solutions used for the movements – such as the impressive hammer-like self-winding mechanism of
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