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Monochrome Monday: Montblanc Meisterstück Heritage Gold Collection Debuts at SIHH 2015

In January 2014 Montblanc introduced an entirely new collection, called the Montblanc Meisterstück Heritage collection. This collection, with its classic design codes, is the first to incorporate everything that Montblanc as a watch brand has to offer — from very affordable and classically styled time-only, to the most affordable perpetual calendar on the market, to...

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Jan 5, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Making a Move: How Panerai Became a Manufacture

At the SIHH show in Geneva in January, Panerai introduced four new movements designed and produced in-house. Our editors test the Panerai Radiomir 8 Days Ceramica. In this in-depth feature we explore Panerai’s rise to manufacture status. When it comes to making movements, Officine Panerai is on the move. At the SIHH show in Geneva...

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Dec 29, 2014 by Gisbert Brunner

Monochrome Monday: 3 Interesting Vintage Heuer Chronographs

In this selected article from our “Cool Finds” series on Monochrome Watches.com, in which we seek out little-known and often underrated vintage chronograph watches, we focus on a single brand, one that we love and one that is also growing fast in the heart of collectors: Heuer, predecessor of today’s TAG Heuer. Recently we unearthed...

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Dec 29, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Monochrome Monday: A Summer With the Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial

The  Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial was the star of Baselworld 2014 — a truly inspired watch with a superb vintage design, great horological cred, and housing a fully anti-magnetic movement. We’ve covered it multiple times already on our blog, Monochrome Watches (here and here). After all the noise generated around this timepiece, it was clearly...

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Dec 29, 2014 by Brice Goulard

Monochrome Monday: Kari Voutilainen GMT-6 with Art Deco Dial

Dear Santa, if you are reading this article, you may consider the timepiece discussed here as the only item on my wish-list for Christmas 2014. This edition of  the Kari Voutilainen GMT-6, with its Art Deco dial, is horological art — pure, inspired, technical, lavishly finished and elegant.

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Dec 1, 2014 by Brice Goulard

Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Large Date Moon-Phases

Girard-Perregaux reveals the complexity behind the dial, adding a level of mechanical involvement to an already dramatic timepiece. The movement’s wheels and levers co-star with the large date and moon-phase displays to increase appreciation of the intricate inner engine.

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Nov 26, 2014 by WatchTime

Roger Dubuis Introduces Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic

The new Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic, unveiled at the Watches and Wonders Fair in Hong Kong, features a trio of technical attributes: a minute repeater with new gongs, a flying tourbillion with a new cage, and twin micro-rotors in hand-guilloché rose gold. Let’s take a closer look.

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Oct 28, 2014 by WatchTime

Monochrome Monday: Introducing the New Piaget Altiplano Skeleton

Ultra-thin timepieces and the name Piaget have gone hand-in-hand for many decades. So it will not come as a shock that Piaget introduced a number of varieties on the ultra-thin, skeletonized Caliber 1200S. That’s the movement of the Piaget Altiplano 1200, which is the world’s thinnest automatic skeletonized watch.

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Oct 13, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Monochrome Monday: Introducing the IWC Portofino Midsize Collection

At last week’s Watches & Wonders fair in Hong Kong, IWC added no less than 20 new models to its Portofino collection. These included 17 new “midsize” models, all adorned with diamonds, and three new versions of the 40-mm Portofino Automatic, now in new 18K rose gold or white gold cases and 72 diamonds set...

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Oct 6, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Nomos Orion 1989 Celebrates 25 Years of Freedom

November, 2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nomos celebrates this historic event with a special-edition watch, the Nomos Orion 1989, which features a manufacture movement with an interesting special feature.

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Sep 30, 2014 by WatchTime