Automatic Watches

4 New Vacheron Constantin Watches That Debuted at The Moscow Boutique

Vacheron Constantin in 2014 opened a new boutique in Moscow. As is the brand’s tradition when opening a new flagship store, new limited edition watches are being introduced to coincide with it. (For example, Vacheron inaugurated its Paris boutique with a series of very nice pink gold and guilloche-dial watches and with the very stylish 1972...

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Jan 11, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Monochrome Essentials: Introducing the Girard-Perregaux Traveller WW.TC Titanium DLC

Here at Monochrome Watches, we love world time watches. It’s probably the most useful complication in this modern day and age for savvy travellers, whether for business or leisure. Girard-Perregaux introduced the WW.TC – the initials stand for World Wide Time Control – in 2000, and last year the model got a major update, both...

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Jan 11, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Monochrome Essentials: Reviewing the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GMT GoodPlanet

We review here the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m GMT Goodplanet watch, a special model with a navy-blue dial and bezel that was created as a tribute to the partnership between Omega and the GoodPlanet Foundation.

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Jan 11, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Watch Insider: Tissot Offers Automatic 80-Hour Movements at Affordable Prices

Watch-Insider takes a look at Tissot's Powermatic 80, and much like Swatch's new Sistem 51 caliber, Tissot's automatic 80-Hour movement represents another quiet watchmaking revolution.

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Jan 6, 2015 by Alexander Linz

The New Waltham Watches: An American Classic Returns with a Modern Swiss Twist

We take a look here at the Waltham watch company, and its recent return to the U.S. market with new Waltham wristwatches that call to mind the brand's long and storied history but are also decidedly modern.

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Jan 2, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

Monochrome Essentials: Reviewing the Ulysse Nardin Marine Chronometer Manufacture

Finding the right watch is a quest. When a watch fits one’s lifestyle, like a glove to a hand, and not by some artificial marketing association, but the fit of real-world application, then a symbiosis ensues. What watch, for example, is the right watch for the boat owner?

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Jan 1, 2015 by Frank Geelen

Blancpain Villeret Réveil GMT

What could be more useful to a frequent-flying globetrotter than a watch that tells the time in two time zones? How about a watch that tells the time in two time zones and has an alarm that can wake him up as his plane is landing? That’s what Blancpain offers up here with its new...

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Jan 1, 2015 by Mark Bernardo

A Look At Two Recently Introduced IWC Ingenieur Watches

While its focus was squarely on its Aquatimer divers’ watches at the 2014 SIHH, IWC has circled back to last year’s featured watch line, the Ingenieur, with two new IWC Ingenieur watches that it is launching this summer, both bearing the Ingenieur collection’s revamped design codes, influenced by materials and functions used in Formula One...

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Dec 31, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT 24H: A Panerai Watch for Travelers

Panerai first became renowned for its distinctively masculine divers’ watches. Now the Swiss watch brand with Florentine roots has released a watch suited for world travelers: the Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT 24H, the first Panerai watch to contain the new manufacture Caliber P.9003.

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Dec 31, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Breitling for Bentley GMT Light Body B04

As it demonstrated with many of its new watches at Baselworld 2014, Breitling continues to equip more and more of its watch collection with in-house movements, including its Breitling for Bentley watches. The latest of these is the Breitling for Bentley GMT Light Body B04, a new “travel chronograph” bearing design influences from Bentley cars.

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Dec 31, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

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

Five Affordable Luxury Watches from SIHH 2014

In this report, I present five value-priced Luxury Watches from SIHH 2014 that caught my eye, with models from Panerai, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Cartier and others.

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Dec 26, 2014 by WatchTime

Watch Test: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra >15,000 Gauss

For decades, the Faraday cage was the surest way to counter powerful magnetic fields. Omega has a different answer. Does it work? We find out in our test of the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra >15,000 Gauss.

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Dec 20, 2014 by Martina Richter

Dive Watch Wednesday: Hands-On with the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec

Recently, Carl F. Bucherer sent us one of its Patravi ScubaTec prototype watches for a closer inspection, and after spending a few days with it, we at DiveIntoWatches.com think that the brand has built a watch that ticks a lot of boxes.

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Dec 17, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Monochrome Monday: Flight-Testing the Oris Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter

Recently, we at Monochrome Watches took to the skies — literally — to test a watch in the environment for which it was designed. Oris released its Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter earlier this year, and cordially invited us to appropriately test-drive the world’s first wristwatch with an automatic, mechanical altimeter.

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Nov 10, 2014 by Frank Geelen

Romain Jerome Batman-DNA: The Dark Knight of Watches

This year marks the 75th anniversary of DC Comics’s Batman, and Romain Jerome — a luxury watch brand that has previously paid tribute to pop culture touchstones, including 1980s video arcade games, and historical events such as the sinking of the Titanic — now honors Gotham City’s Dark Knight with the limited-edition Batman-DNA watch.

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Nov 4, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Press Release: WatchTime Special Issue: Vacheron Constantin

New York City (NY): America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, has released its 2009 special issue on Vacheron Constantin as a digital download. This special edition explores the history of Vacheron Constantin watches, taking the reader inside the brand’s Swiss manufacture and highlighting the most iconic timepieces from its 250-year history.

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Oct 16, 2014 by Carina Friedrich

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

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