You could say that Horage, the young independent Swiss watch brand based in Biel, started life back to front. Frustrated by the lack of third-party movements on the market after
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The MONOCHROME editorial team was quite excited when Seiko announced it was bringing back an illustrious name from the past. A name once part of a fierce internal rivalry over
Earlier this year Seiko brought back the King Seiko designation for a new stand-alone collection, following a superb limited edition presented in 2020. This new Seiko King Seiko line kicked
Introducing – The New, Full-Steel Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Watches (Video, Live Pics & Price)
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Control Collection was introduced in 1992 and has since been the classic, slightly vintage expression of the brand. It combines an impressive technical rigour with a stylistic
Certina was founded well over a century ago in 1888, so it knows a thing or two about mid-century watches. When it comes to vintage-inspired chronographs, the brand is well
Vintage watches from the 1960s and 1970s have been all the rage for the past decade, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some brands are pushing the fast-forward
It feels like repeating myself, but indeed, it’s hard not to say this, Longines is one of the brands with the richest history and an incredible collection of important watches.
The Captain Cook is, without a doubt, one of Rado’s most emblematic watches. Named after the famous British explorer, the model was released in 1962 as a 37mm diver with
The idea of this article came to life after our first encounter with the new MB&F Legacy Sequential EVO a few weeks ago. Looking at this ultra-complex, yet impressively intuitive
MeisterSinger might be relatively young (founded in 2001), but the German brand has managed in its two decades of existence to build a truly unique identity, all centred around one
In 2015, MB&F assigned the Northern Irish independent watchmaker Stephen McDonnell a mission: reinvent the perpetual calendar mechanism and counteract a major issue inherent to most LM watches, a centrally
About ten years ago, news broke of a very young yet immensely talented watchmaker stepping out of the limelight of the established watchmaking that employed him at the time. We
Everything in life, including time itself, starts from zero. That is a given fact, and exactly what is at the heart of one of the most classic, emblematic watches from
Recently, we were able to confirm what was the watch worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, the 2022 blockbuster and sequel to the cult 1986 movie. And yes,
As a reminder, Seiko (and thus the Seiko Group that owns Grand Seiko) was born in 1881, in the city of Tokyo, when young Kintaro Hattori created his workshop in
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