The hidden world of Secret Service unit watches, from CAT’s “HAWKEYE” Tudor to Omega and legacy Rolex pieces On Saturday night, a gunman rushed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where President Donald J. Trump and other senior-level officials were present. The United States Secret Service...
Anyone who has kept a close eye on my work for MONOCHROME Watches might have caught on to the fact that I have more than a bit of a thing for watches by H. Moser & Cie. I think what they do is brilliant, although I do not love-love everything in the catalogue. What I […]
H. Moser & Cie. is a brand that I have often come back to. It fascinates me, but I have yet to be lucky enough to handle one of its watches in the metal. This brand, like IWC, is connected to the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. There’s something in the air there. I visited just […] Visit...
Just a week after Watches & Wonders 2026, TAG Heuer has announced an extension of its Formula 1 collection with five new pastel-colored models. This latest addition to the lineup comes one year after the relaunch of the Formula 1 series. While the F1 has always been an entry-level model, TAG...
When it launched in 2012, Frederique Constant’s Worldtimer Manufacture made waves in the watch world. A complication usually found in far pricier watches, it delivered in-house world time functionality with an “accessible luxury” price tag. Not content to rest on its laurels, FC unveiled a new...
I have been lucky enough to try a wide variety of Unimatic watches over time. As some of you know, I love the brand’s ability to create great new releases that surprise me time and again. A big part of that is due to the brilliant canvas that the Unimatic founders, Giovanni Moro and Simone […]...
Few watch industry traditions are more sacred than the yearly dance during Watches & Wonders between shiny new novelties in Switzerland and comments from observers back home about pricing being out of control. Every year, without fail, new watches are announced in the dead of night on the east...
This year was a big one for the Rolex group, as the Crown was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its emblematic Oyster case, while Tudor turned 100 years, being founded in 1926. With this in mind, expectations were high, and some predicted fireworks of novelties, huge innovations, entirely new...
The invention of the automatic movement was indisputably a milestone in the history of wristwatches, ensuring that wearers of timepieces with these self-winding mechanisms could count on their watch to run and maintain accuracy. Sometimes, however, nothing beats the old-school, tactile delight...