The chronograph has a 30-minute totalizer up top and a 12-hour totalizer at six rebounds, and there is a running seconds enroll at nine o’clock. Purists may be annoyed from the date window at three o’clock, but let’s recall that this is a watch meant for general consumers and many clients still request watches that reveal the date. There are just two dial color options — sunburst black and white sunburst silver. Each offers contrasting tracks for the chronograph sub-registers and a contrasting rehaut with the more thorough timing track onto it. The applied even numerals stand a nice height off the dial and also have a vertically brushed finish which makes them look really lavish. Combined with the bright red chronograph seconds hand, the contrasty dial makes studying in a glance quickly really easy. It’s wonderful to see that Montblanc actually thought about making this a practical driving chronograph.Looking in the rest of the watch, you keep finding more thoughtful information. The lugs are partly pierced, with a single curved opening on the side using the pushers and two smaller cut-outs on the other hand. Talking of, those pushers are surrounded with small black knurled rims which match the crown along with the edge of this polished black ceramic bezel. Despite being a big sports chronograph, this view shows great attention to detail and is obviously hoping to give wearers a lot to love they won’t find at the competition.Turning the watch over you’ll find that a screw-down caseback with a smoked sapphire window for looking in the movement. Sure, the decoration on the grade is not much to write home about, but there’s hardly any reason to not offer you a sapphire back on a watch like this. The movement is the Montblanc caliber MB 25.07, which will be their version of the Sellita SW500. It is an automatic chronograph movement with a 46-hour power book, 25 stones, and a frequency of 28,800 vph.
October 18, 2015 marks the beginning of the inaugural Dubai Watch Week, and aBlogtoWatch is going to be there to cover it. There are going to be showings from A.Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Breitling, Bulgari, Chopard, De Grisogono, F.P. Journe, Hublot, HYT, IWC, Louis Moinet, Montblanc, Panerai, Richard Mille, TAG Heuer, Tiffany & Co., and Vacheron Constantin.
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Dubai has a reputation as being a city of massive wealth with rapid economic growth after the oil boom. The fact that there hasn’t been a major watch event of this scope in the city is actually somewhat surprising given the region’s reputation for big spending and a love of all things flashy. Spending on luxury goods is increasing in the Middle East, and it will be interesting to see if the region, and Dubai in particular, will establish itself as a major city for the watch industry.
Dubai Watch Week seems serious about bucking the reputation of the city as simply a consumers’ paradise by presenting two major exhibits: the traveling Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) exhibition and their “Rebels of Horology” exhibit which will celebrate independent watchmakers and will feature timepieces from Bovet, Cabestan, De Bethune, Greubel Forsey, Hautlence, Laurent Ferrier, MB&F, H. Moser & Cie, Moritz Grossman, and Urwerk.
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