Montblanc « Collection Villeret 1858 »
This year Montblanc is celebrating a major jubilee - it has been 150 years since the foundation of Minerva, a small manufacture specializing in handcrafted watchmaking, in Villeret. The company soon began focusing its attention on timekeeping and has since developed the chronograph to the peak of perfection. Only a handful of watch manufacturers can look back on such a long, uninterrupted history, and over the years Minerva has held fast to the working methods traditionally associated with Swiss watchmaking at its best. This is the art of haute horlogerie, which is practiced largely by hand. Only a select group of master watchmakers today are familiar with the procedures and techniques required for this rarest and most exclusive form of watchmaking... more
05 mai 2008
To mark the brand’s centenary in 2006, Montblanc is presenting a world premiere at the SIHH: the Star Chrono GMT Perpetual Calendar chronograph in platinum, white, yellow or rose gold, with a COSC-certified mechanism (Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres) that features not only all the classic functions of a timepiece, but also a GMT display combined with one of the industry’s most sophisticated complications of the perpetual calendar. Equally exclusive are the Profile Lady Elegance Diamonds Limited 3 in 18 carat white gold with casing and wristband set with a firework display of diamonds and... 
