If you were to ask anyone to describe a typical Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, you would most likely hear elements like the octagonal case/bezel, integrated bracelet, and a blue Tapisserie
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Welcome to a new year. Welcome to 2023. If there’s one thing that watch brands love, it’s celebrating their heritage. Vintage has been one of the main inspirations for the
Renowned as the blueprint for modern dive watches, Blancpain’s archetypal Fifty Fathoms of 1953 is coming up for its grand 70th birthday. As an essential player in the development of
The small Scottish brand known as anOrdain has made quite a name for itself over the past half-decade or so, mainly through its traditionally crafted vitreous enamel dials. Usually reserved
Instead of looking at a TV screen, a gigantic clock or some type of countdown timer in anticipation of the stroke of midnight and ushering in the new year, some
If you’re reading this article, we have nothing to teach you about our extensive written content. As we explained in our previous retrospective with our most-read articles of 2022, we’ve
The fifth generation of the Laureato, the Girard-Perregaux’s take on the luxury sports watch with an integrated bracelet, was launched in 2017 as a permanent collection, following a limited edition
The end of the year 2022 is nigh. And once again, at MONOCHROME, we’ve seen a lot of new watches (in all fairness, it was more evolutionary than revolutionary), and
Special Editions are a common thing in the industry by now and can be connected to pretty much anything. From cars to football clubs, to high-profile individuals and everything in
Fusing two of the brand’s fortes – a popular vintage dive watch design and innovative high-tech ceramic – Rado has come up with a winner. The latest edition of the
At MONOCHROME, we love watches, watchmaking and the watchmaking industry as a whole. However, we can’t hide our passion for watches manufactured by small ateliers by watchmakers who create watches
You have to love the sixties and the seventies, and you can be less than sixty to admire the era’s product design. Much younger generations dig the old school stuff,
Founded in 2011, Bausele always had “defense genes” in its DNA, manufacturing watches for the Australian Intelligence Corps and the Special Operations Engineers Regiment. Affected by the difficulties faced by
As many of you should be able to spend some quiet time with family and beloved ones, it is a moment of the year when it’s also good to look
I’ve been visiting watch fairs for nearly 20 years and made it a habit to ask the watch designers I befriended what their favourite watches were among those displayed by
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