Vacheron Constantin Unveils Arab-inspired Metiers d’Art Gyr Watch
Swiss haute horologer Vacheron Constantin unveils the novel Metiers d’Art Gyr timepiece, which draws inspiration from the Arab art of falconry.
Five Of Tissot’s Most Popular Watches For Your Holiday Wish List
We have put together a selection of Tissot’s five most popular collections and model variants to help you pick just the one for yourself – or a loved one – this holiday season.
Ferrari 488 GTB: Talking ‘Bout A Revolution
Being Ferrari means that you have a significant challenge. Where each new generation of Porsche’s 911 is an evolution, each Ferrari has to be a revolution: superior to its predecessor in often radical ways. Not every revolution empowers the right forces, but when it does, you get something like the Ferrari 488 GTB, a thoroughbred sportscar that even dips a tire into the supercar arena.
Introducing: The Cartier Minute Repeater Mysterious Double Tourbillon, Skeleton Mysterious Hour, And Cartier Panthére Joueuse
Just a few weeks ahead of the 2017 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), Cartier has announced three new timepieces. All three are very much expressions of what has been Cartier’s most basic design philosophy for the last hundred or so years: the use of technical watchmaking not for its own sake, but rather for the purpose of creating emotional and aesthetic effects. Cartier’s mystery clocks are one of the best examples of this approach at its most successful, and while these three timepieces likely sit right at the top of the horological food chain from a pricing perspective, they’re also expressions of a unique design approach and of out-of-the-box technical solutions. I think they will be of interest to anyone interested in watches. Let’s take a look.
LAST CHANCE: Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver ‘Blue Devil’ Limited Edition Watch Giveaway
Just a short time left in November and for your chance to win a Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver “Blue Devil” watch in this month’s aBlogtoWatch watch giveaway. Enter now!
Value Proposition: Hawker Harrier II – The Pegasus Concept watch, a flight above the rest
What we look for in a watch nowadays is not quite what it used to be. As you know, at Monochrome we do have a liking for different ways to indicate time. The simple art of telling the time has evolved into something almost magical, with each watch telling its own story and history. The Hawker Harrier II brings to life something that is only dreamt of – a Pegasus inspired pilots watch.
Philippe DuFour Explains Watchmaking Techniques That Are Almost Forgotten
Greubel Forsey is financing Philippe DuFour to produce a film to record for posterity: watchmaking techniques that slowly are being lost, slowly are fading from memory. So that generations to come, people will have a recorded lesson, on how to do these steps of watchmaking. Philippe DuFour shows us what he is going to be […]
5 Most Impressive IWC Portugieser’s
When two Portuguese businessmen put in a special request at IWC for a wrist watch with the precision of a marine chronometer, little could they know that they would trigger events that would turn this watch into one of the pillars of IWC’s legacy.
Private Time With Laurent Ferrier: The Man And The Brand
Anyone who has met Laurent Ferrier will probably agree that his watches are created in his image.
Hands-On: The Moser Heritage Tourbillon Skeleton, A One-Off Tribute To The Métiers d’Art
Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of H. Moser’s concept watches, or its supposed affinity for fruity tech companies. This small independent watch company, based in Schaffhausen, may be comfortable with dials that display barely enough information to let you know what you’re looking at, and case shapes that parody the infamous Apple Watch, but everything it does is solidly grounded in traditional watchmaking. Case in point: the Heritage Tourbillon Skeleton.