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Bremont’s America’s Cup Hands-on Watch
The America’s Cup returned to New York last week, and so did Nick and Giles English, the British brand’s co-founders: Bremont not only sponsors the defending champion Oracle Team USA (OTUSA), but is also the first official British timing partner to The America’s Cup since 1851 — a fact reflected in a special-edition collection of…
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3 Affordable & Vintage-inspired Dive Watches From Tudor, Oris & Longines
Returning visitors of Monochrome are certainly aware of our speciality: reviews of watches. We believe that reviews are essential in the process of buying a new watch, or any luxury item for that matter. Of course, we encourage you profoundly to test the watch yourself… however that will most likely be in the luxurious ‘ambiance’…
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Tag Heuer Is Basically The Official Watch of Soccer Now
Tag Heuer has already scored a soccer-sponsorship hat trick by backing America’s Major League Soccer, Germany’s Bundesliga, and the Chinese Football Association Super League. It landed an even bigger win on Tuesday when it became the official timekeeper for England’s Premier League. For the uninitiated, the Premier League is perhaps the most-watched soccer league in…
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Longines’s New Hands on Watch
There are portions of the Kentucky Derby, which is supposed to be a horse race, that make the day feel more like a kegger than an elegant sporting event. In fact, if you’re anywhere but the Grandstand at Churchill Downs, you could be faced with a bourbon-fueled bacchanal that makes Welcome Week at most SEC…
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Reviewing Seiko x Giugiaro SCED035 “Ripley”
Having a watch associated with a famous film character is a sure way to concrete its place in history. Obviously the most famous example being James Bond and his Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamasters and a plethora of others that rode the character’s coat tails to higher sales. Well, in the history of cult classics there…
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Testing the Rolex Milgauss
Magnetic fields are invisible and do not greatly affect the human body. Maybe that’s why we don’t think about them very much, even though our high-tech world is full of them, generated by all sorts of devices, from motors to loudspeakers. Unlike the people who wear them, however, mechanical watches are extremely susceptible to magnetic…
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New In 2016: Girard-Perregaux 1966 Skeleton
Girard-Perregaux celebrates 225 years of watchmaking in 2016, and the brand’s enthusiasm for the anniversary was apparent at Baselworld, where it introduced a plethora of new models and collections, like the updated Laureato and the exclusive, ultra-complicated La Esmerelda Tourbillon, among many others. This week, we look at an intriguing new addition to its heritage-inspired…
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Reviewing Oris ProDiver Chronograph
Designed for Extremes While the recreational diver would find as much appeal in the Oris ProDiver, this professional Oris dive watch is the deep-water equivalent of heavy machinery. “In this world of diving, we’re not talking about pretty turquoise waters and dolphins — we’re talking about tough and uncompromising conditions in inhospitable waters,” Oris CEO…
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Passion For Shelby Is Still Growing – Great Baume & Mercier
The Geneva-based watchmaker is carrying on the legend of the iconic Cobra car and its expert drivers. Car racing and fine watchmaking hold many of the same values. For an entire day, fashion watch Baume & Mercier is setting the stage for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Start your engines! On April 26, Baume & Mercier organized…
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Basel 2016: Oris’ Case For The Great Barrier Reef
The Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people are a tribe of ancient people who have lived by the waters of Australia’s northeastern coast, just outside the city of Cairns, for a long time now. Their lives by the ocean has allowed them knowledge of their land- and seascape that has otherwise, until very recently, eluded even modern…
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Reviewing Oris Diver Sixty-Five
Within this frame, I am constantly encountering cheaply priced “vintage” Oris watches. These pieces are bright and bold— often having unusual (read noxious) color schemes and heavily polished cases. To the dismay of some, these watches are, in most cases, less than authentic (hence the quotes around “vintage” above). Enter the modern Oris brand with…
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New Releasing: Straton Watch Co. Curve-Chrono Watch
It’s no easy feat to gain any form of respect from the watch community when creating one’s own watch brand. This is especially the case in a market that has become flooded with startup brands using “off-the-shelf designs” in order to create the next “most affordable watch.” Straton Watch Co. was started in 2015 by…