Monochrome Watches

4 days ago | monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton

Collaborations are one of the hottest trends in watchmaking today, as brands, high and low, team up with artists, retailers, collectors – you name it – to create special customised editions. The latest collaboration involves Italian powerhouse Bulgari and Gübelin, the Swiss, family-owned jewellery and watch retailer. The model selected is the Octo Finissimo Skeleton 8 Days, Bulgari’s ultra-thin skeletonised marvel with an impressive 192-hour power reserve.

4 days ago | monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton

Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Hublot has never shown a reverence for conservative watchmaking. Starting with its explosively named Big Bang collection, Hublot revels in innovative material combinations and loud, audacious designs. However, when it comes to showing off its horological muscles, Hublot’s Masterpiece suite is where you’ll find the most technically complex models.

1 week ago | monochrome-watches.com | Brice Goulard

The announcement two years ago of the comeback of Daniel Roth under Louis Vuitton’s direction gave us great hopes. Luckily, we didn’t have to wait long to see the first result of this anticipated return, which started with a yellow gold Tourbillon Souscription, a faithful tribute to the late-1980s reference C187 Tourbillon watch by Mr Roth, followed by another tourbillon in rose gold.

1 week ago | monochrome-watches.com | Rebecca Doulton

Not all images were able to load for printing. Please close the print window and try again. Alpina flexed its powerful sports watch muscles early in the game with its 1938 Alpina 4, a robust model with shock and water-resistance features, anti-magnetic properties and a sturdy steel case. The heavy-duty Alpiner Extreme, released in 2005 and refreshed in 2022, is a worthy descendant of the Alpina 4.

1 week ago | monochrome-watches.com | Brice Goulard

Since its return in its current form back in 2019, the Seiko 5 Sports collection has become an inescapable option when it comes to acquiring an accessible, robust, dive-inspired automatic watch from an established brand, even though Citizen is also hitting hard in this market. Today, we’ll be talking specifically about the most emblematic version of Seiko’s entry-level sports watch, the so-called SKX Series, which pays tribute to a genuine icon of affordable watchmaking, the SKX007.