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
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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
As the year comes to a close, you’re used to us reflecting on what we’ve seen and handled over these past 12 months. And it has been a lot, obviously.
When we recently reached out to anOrdain to see if we could conduct an interview about this very interesting brand, they came back to us and said, “we can do
For almost 20 years, the name Big Pilot at IWC meant one thing: a 46mm, oversized, almost provocative watch inspired by 1940s B-Uhr, powered by a massive automatic movement with
The stylish black & gold John Player Special livery, made famous by the Lotus F1 team in the 1970s, is enjoying a revival with offerings from brands like Hamilton, Bell
If there’s one watch that can be called a classic at IWC, it has to be the Portugieser Chronograph. One of the earliest models to be launched after the rebirth
Developing a watch from the ground up is a daunting task, and certainly not for everyone. It takes up a lot of time and budget in order to produce a
We looked at Peren’s Nera Rogue diver last year and were impressed with its unique design and minimalist approach. It was inspired by a very rare 1960s Blancpain diver produced
After a prolific year (to say the least), what we’ll be looking at today might be one of the last watches unveiled by Seiko this year, and it isn’t based
The watchmaking industry is like every other industry. The more you spend, the better the products will be… At least on paper. Surely, a 6-digit price tag will open the
It might not be the oldest player on the revered Glashütte block of Saxon watchmaking, but Tutima has consolidated an excellent reputation for resilient military-inspired chronographs (Flieger) and hyper-utilitarian dive
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