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monochrome-watches.com | Brice Goulard |Rebecca Doulton |Robin Nooy |Frank Geelen
Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. A venerable German watch brand that was once the world’s largest watch and clock manufacturer by the early 20th century, Junghans is mainly known for its clean and attractive Max Bill collection as well as its elegant Meister range. There is, however, one collection that truly stands apart with its funky design and colours, a watch that couldn’t be more 1970s and yet feels totally up-to-date.
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monochrome-watches.com | Robin Nooy |Denis Peshkov |Brice Goulard |Nina Scally
Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Plenty of people consider mechanical watches an art, and to an extent, I consider myself one of them. I do hold the conviction that, in the end, a watch is a tool to tell time, but every so often, I can appreciate when a watch pairs its time-telling capabilities with something expressive. And when the press details about Moritz Grossmann’s latest watch came in, I was pleasantly surprised by the dials.
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monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton |Xavier Markl |Erik Slaven |Robin Nooy
Delma’s Shell Star dive watch combines the groove of its 1970s ancestor with modern specifications. A rugged 500m water-resistant diving companion, the latest Shell Star models feature a new complication with a Big Date window at noon and on-trend gradient dials. Delma’s first dive watch surfaced in 1969 with the Periscope, followed by the more professional Shell Star and Quattro in 1975, both of which endure to this day in the brand’s collection.
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monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton |Max E. Reddick |Brice Goulard |Robin Nooy
Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Bell & Ross has never strayed far from its winning formula of aeronautical instrument-inspired watches. Brandishing the tagline “from the cockpit to the wrist,” Bell & Ross’s watches are loyal to the “circle within a square design” inspired by dashboard flight instruments.
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monochrome-watches.com | Denis Peshkov |Robin Nooy |Rebecca Doulton |Nina Scally
Cosmic Green, Funky Blue, Swiss Mad Red, Citrus Green… Indie brand H. Moser & Cie. is no stranger to bold, expressive colour. These vibrant hues have graced the dials of the Pioneer Centre Seconds series, alongside Arctic Blue and Blue Lagoon.
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monochrome-watches.com | Brice Goulard |Rebecca Doulton |Erik Slaven |Robin Nooy
Founded in 1951, only one year after the creation of the Orient Watch Company and owned since 2001 by Seiko Epson, Orient Star is the higher-end collection of the Japanese watchmaker, which celebrates this year its 75th anniversary. This year, the brand expands its contemporary collection with two new colours for the Layered Skeleton model, a classic of its portfolio.
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monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton |Brice Goulard |Frank Geelen |Robin Nooy
One of the first purpose-built modern dive watches produced in the mid-1950s, Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms was a key player in the development of “skin diving” and the watch selected by several elite diving corps. Taken out of production in the 1980s, Swatch Group’s Marc A. Hayek resuscitated the Fifty Fathoms in 2003. In 2007, the classic Fifty Fathoms Automatique ref. 5015 made a splash with its large 45mm steel case and black dial.
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monochrome-watches.com | Brice Goulard |Robin Nooy
Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. 60 different references… This is how wide Tissot’s best-selling collection, the sporty-elegant integrated PRX watch, has become in about 4 years.
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3 weeks ago | 
monochrome-watches.com | Denis Peshkov |Brice Goulard |Frank Geelen |Robin Nooy
Grand Seiko got into the spotlight in 2023 with the launch of its first-ever mechanical chronograph, the Evolution 9 Tentagraph SLGC001, filling the gap in the brand’s 60-year legacy of precision watchmaking – surprisingly, it was missing one until recently. For 2025, Grand Seiko introduces the Tentagraph SLGC007 – a near-identical successor to the original, distinguished primarily by its new dial colour.
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monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton |Erik Slaven |Brice Goulard |Robin Nooy
Twenty-five years ago, Chanel launched the J12 in black ceramic. Although brands like Rado and IWC had already produced ceramic watches, Chanel’s watch transformed ceramic into a precious material. An immediate hit, another unique facet of the watch was its unisex appeal. Designed by Chanel’s former artistic director Jacques Hélleu, the sleek, dark, sporty J12 was followed up with an all-white ceramic J12 in 2003.
