The strap is hand-crafted at the Montblanc Pelletteria at Florence and comes fitted with all the brand’s triple folding clasp.Next up, we’ve got a timepiece which inverts the “Panda Dial” fashion with the Montblanc TimeWalker Rally Timer Chronograph, which is limited to 100 total bits. Here, we’ve got a timepiece that’s motivated by a 1960s stopwatch Minerva had produced, but it dollars its previous life by allowing the ability to personalize the opinion to a pocketwatch or a dashboard clock.The watch is powered by one of Minerva’s iconic hand-wound manufacture monopusher chronograph calibers: MB M16.29, to be precise. In 50 mm, the watch is definitely large but that is in part due to the customizable features. All but the center section of this case –that is coated with black DLC and knurled — is made of grade-two titanium that’s been satin-finished. In addition, it comes on a Sfumato-aged leather calf strap, which allows simple conversion from wristwatch into pocketwatch by folding the strap attachments under the instance. The pocketwatch can subsequently be placed on a desk, thanks to 2 arms beneath the circumstance, used as a stopwatch with all the strap as a handle for security, or clipped into a metal plate covered with leather which attaches to a car’s dashboard. The caseback is spacious and in the shape of an auto grill that displays the stunning, hand-finished movement.
Starting this upcoming Monday, January 16th, and running through Friday, January 20th, is the always anticipated, annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) watch exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition will feature displays from some of the largest watch brands as well as a stable of independent brands who are newly invited for 2017. This year also features a first for SIHH – a day open to the public on the final day, January 20th. The aBlogtoWatch team will be ready and present with the most comprehensive reporting of the event, and we will be bringing you our hands-on coverage of the latest novelties to debut at SIHH 2017. And if that didn’t already excite you, get ready to take an even closer behind the scenes look when we host our own aBlogtoWatch day on Thursday, January 19th at the show.
Seventeen exhibitors can be seen: A. Lange & Söhne, Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier, Cartier, Girard-Perregaux, Greubel Forsey, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Montblanc, Panerai, Parmigiani, Piaget, Richard Mille, Roger Dubuis, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron Constantin, and Van Cleef & Arpels. This year marks the second of the Carré des Horlogers, now grown to thirteen independent brands: Christophe Claret, Grönefeld, H. Moser & Cie., Hautlence, HYT, Laurent Ferrier, MB&F, Manufacture Contemporaine Du Temps, Ressence, Romain Jerome, Speake-Marin, Urwerk, and Voutilainen.
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