Introducing: The New Moritz Grossmann Benu Heritage Power Reserve Salmon
The brand Moritz Grossmann comes from the renowned German watchmaker Carl Moritz Grossmann, who founded the original company in 1854. Today, Moritz Grossmann is one of the few watch manufacturers based in Glashutte that keeps the German watchmaking tradition alive along with the neighbouring A. Lange & Sohne, Glashutte Original, Nomos, etc. We recently reviewed the Moritz Grossmann Power Reserve Vintage, a stylish watch that perfectly blends classic elegance, contemporary aesthetics and technological innovation. Today we are happy to present another Grossmann creation, the Benu Heritage Power Reserve Salmon, with a slightly different look and feel.Moritz Grossmann watch designs, the Benu Heritage family included, are characterized by clean lines, refined dials, and balanced proportions, and the new Benu Power Reserve Salmon is exemplary. The three-part stainless steel case measures 41mm in diameter and 11.65mm high. It features a delicate filigree bezel that turns attention to the

Vacheron Constantin Overseas Automatic 4500V - Review (Specs & Price)
Some categories in the watch world are more competitive than others. The “Luxury Sports-Watch” sector certainly is amongst the toughest of all. Narrow, precisely defined, and requiring the highest standards of quality, luxury, and mechanics, it is driven by a few, very strong icons… Entering it is complex. Breaking back into its ranks is close to impossible, but this is what Vacheron Constantin have achieved with the new Overseas collection, first introduced in 2016, and today we look at the “standard” offer, the?Overseas Automatic 4500V.The “Luxury Sports-Watch” CategoryIn the?strictest definition, the “luxury sports-watch” category is extremely narrow. It comprises probably under 10 members, most of them born in the 1970s, under the genius pen of a certain Gerald Genta. What is a?“luxury sports-watch”? Of course, there’s no official definition, so here what we, at Monochrome, would say: a?“luxury sports-wat

Hands-On Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep O-MegaSteel
As we've explained in the article talking about the titanium edition, Omega is releasing this year an ultra-dive watch, a model that summarizes everything the brand does best, mechanically and regarding resistance to all possible external elements. Based on the lessons learned with the Planet Ocean Ultra Deep Professional that reached the deepest point in the ocean during the Five Deeps Expedition to the Mariana Trench, Omega now releases what's basically a barely-downgraded version available for a wide audience, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Ultra Deep 6,000m. One of the toughest mechanical dive watches ever created (almost to prototype levels), it's also available as a complete collection of steel watches, but Omega being Omega, the R&D team decided that they needed a new steel alloy, and it's named O-MegaSteel.?Born in 1948, the Seamaster collection is surely the one that bears most of the brand's innovations. Looking at the recent history, the collection is now divided in 4

Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Collection Sector Dials Review (Specs & Price)
25 years ago, the highly-respectable manufacture?Jaeger-LeCoultre innovated not with a new complication or a new material, but by implementing the “1000 Hours Control” procedure, an in-house certification comprising a series of radical tests to ensure that the watches are reliable and precise. As a tribute to this anniversary,?Jaeger-LeCoultre has created an entire new collection of?Master Control models, with stunning sector dials. Today on Monochrome, we take a look at these 3 watches: the?Master Chronograph, the?Master Geographic and the Master Control Date (and just wait till you see the prices…)The look of the new?Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control CollectionA watch is a movement, a pedigree, a name but mainly, it is a design (who wants to wear a badly designed watch anyway…) This is where?Jaeger-LeCoultre wins?big with the new?Master Control Collection. Put simply, these 3 watches just look stunningly cool. Period! That’s the easy part. Now, let’s

TAG Heuer Monaco 55 - Monochrome Watches
TAG Heuer and the Porsche Club of America launch the Monaco 55, a very limited collector's edition.Last month i wrote about my first ‘love’ in watches, my Heuer Autavia. However?the first mechanical watch i ever seriously took a looked at, was a TAG Heuer Monaco, which is still one of my favorites. When i heard TAG Heuer released a (very) limited edition Monaco to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Porsche Club of America (PCA) i was surprised, because TAG Heuer does not makes a habit of such limited editions.The Monaco 55 shows some design elements we know from Monaco?Vintage Limited Edition, TAG Heuer released in tribute to the Porsche-Gulf 917k race car in the movie Le Mans. Ad - Scroll to continue with article It’s of course no secret anymore (ahum) that Steve McQueen wore a Heuer Monaco in the movie Le Mans. Steve McQueen’s friend Jo