The Chopard Alpine Eagle, a direct descendant of the slightly baroque St. Moritz model of the 1980s, was resurrected and modernised to reflect contemporary tastes. Since its revival, we’ve seen the Alpine Eagle expand to become an entire collection with a tourbillon, an extra-large chronograph or a compact feminine version, as well as many colours or […]
Watch winders are useful objects that many collectors own. These are practical for automatic watches, especially if you tend to swap watches regularly. They are all the more useful for watches with annual or perpetual calendars that are not always easy to set. Winders are extremely rare for manual wind watches… A specialist craftsman in […]
Whoever has experienced traversing the globe (by plane, train or automobile) while wearing a mechanical timepiece has at one point run into the drawbacks of regular time-only watches. It can tell the time in one location only, which is useless for identifying the time of day or night of your loved ones back home. Luckily, […]
A month ago, Rolex revealed a new model… And not just a new variation around an existing watch, but simply their most advanced dive watch ever, the Deepsea Challenge. What was once an experimental model made specifically for a man and his record dive at the deepest point of our planet (which has since been […]
In motorsport, every second or even a hundredth of a second can be critical. Nowadays, when marginal gains make the winner, the technology around the racers keeps track in precious detail, there are split-second chronographs and finish line cameras, and the results are factored down to a minimum. The title of an official timekeeping partner […]
As one of the most vocal advocates of reinstating traditional British watchmaking to its former glory, Garrick remains on our radars for obvious reasons. For years, the indie watchmaker co-founded by David Brailsford has been chiselling away at the goal to produce watches at a relatively affordable but also high-end level. Somewhat of an impossible […]
Not too long ago we featured a Norwegian brand called MICROMILSPEC for the very first time. It was the first encounter with a company that before then used to fly under the radar, literally, as its watches have never been commercially available so far. Instead, MICROMILSPEC produces commissioned pieces only, in strong collaboration with military […]
H. Moser & Cie, the independent watchmaker with a highly personal take on design and manufacturing, is well-known for its minimalistic approach, to the point where some of its watches don’t even carry the brand’s logo or markers to read the time… The so-called Concept approach is indeed all about “less is more.” In this […]
Wandering hours are one of the most fascinating displays of the watch industry. And if it’s often associated with modern indie watchmakers like Urwerk or with Audemars Piguet, it is actually a very old concept dating back to the 17th century. Yet, if the paternity of the system is far older than many would think, […]
The end of the year is near, so it’s time for the MONOCHROME team to sit down and look back at everything that happened in 2022… And there was a lot, with so many new watches launched, in all categories and in all price ranges. Today, we kick off a series of buying guides representing […]