Category: Luxury Watches

Video – Discovering the Maurice Lacroix Aikon Mercury and its Patented “Free-Hand” Display

Today, MONOCHROME’s technical editor Xavier Markl is in Saignelégier, Switzerland, with Maurice Lacroix. With its “Masterpiece” collection, Maurice Lacroix unveiled several watches with unconventional displays of the time. Think about the surprising Roue Carrée watch, with its small seconds actuated by a square wheel, or the Mysterious Seconds watch, with its floating, non-mechanically linked seconds […]

6 years ago

Introducing – Czapek Faubourg de Cracovie Chronograph “Secret Alloy” (Live Pics)

Since the reintroduction in 2015 of the name Czapek, Antoine Norbert de Patek’s ex-partner before he founded Patek Philippe, the freshly recreated brand has focused on high-end watchmaking, of course, but also displays a strong appetite for hand-crafted dials, whether they are made in enamel or guilloché. Using its latest watch as a base, the […]

6 years ago

Hands-on – Glashütte Original Senator Chronograph Panorama Date

Glashütte Original presented this steel/white dial version of the Senator Chronograph Panorama Date at Baselworld 2018. Following the design tenets of the steel/black dial model introduced a year before, the two models offer a refreshing, more contemporary take on the original 2014 Senator Chronograph. Powered by calibre 37, a formidable in-house integrated flyback chronograph movement, the 2018 black and white model is a strikingly handsome addition to the line-up. We were able to spend some hands-on time with the watch, so read on for our impressions.

6 years ago

Introducing – Panerai Luminor Marina Titanio/DLC Bucherer BLUE (Live Pics)

Being the largest watch retailer over the world, Swiss-based company Bucherer has enough influence to do things its own way… And that means creating its own, personalised watches, manufactured by some of the most prestigious brands around, and themed after a concept named “Bucherer BLUE”. After multiple editions, including IWC, Longines, Breguet, GO or Oris, […]

6 years ago

Hands-on – Artisans de Genève “La Blausee” – A Skeletonized and Hand-Wound Take on the Rolex Daytona

Artisans de Genève is a watchmaking company that offers watch customization services for private clients. However, Artisans de Genève is not your typical watch customizer. No blackened timepieces here… Its work goes far beyond aesthetics with impressive modifications on the structure of the watch itself and its movement performed by its craftsmen and watchmakers. For […]

6 years ago

Hands-on – Breguet Classique 7787 Moonphase with Grand Feu Enamel Dial

I’d love to say that I’d be curious to see what a modernly designed Breguet would look like… But I can’t! I can’t, simply because Breguet carries so much history and legacy that it must not be bolder than it should, or experiment with avant-garde design… It can be (and actually is) innovative technically speaking, […]

6 years ago