Pre-SIHH 2019: Montblanc Updates The TimeWalker And Star Legacy Watches

Known for its professional watches with high chronometry, including the ability to measure time accurate to 1/100th of a second as early as 1916, the watchmaking heritage of Minerva represents a treasure trove for Montblanc to mine as it carves its own niche in the competitive Swiss watch industry So it comes as no surprise that this legacy continues to inform Montblanc's development of robust, modern timepieces including the new collections for TimeWalker and Star Legacy "The Minerva archive has more than 1,000 pieces with different dials, shapes, hands, colours and cases," exclaimed Davide Cerrato, the man in charge of Montblanc's watch division when we met in Singapore recently.

Cerrato was in the Lion City to personally present the yet-to-be-released watches, ahead of Geneva's SIHH fair in January "Meanwhile, Star Legacy is linked to the spirit of formal elegance, and a Minerva pocket watch from 1896 specifically informed the new design, from the shape of the case and the crown to the domed sapphire and the way the centre of the dial is slightly concaved." The new TimeWalker and Star Legacy watches carry on this Minerva spirit with pride Davide Cerrato Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec chronographs with new anthracite dials A new panda dial and semi-skeletonised horns for the 43mm TimeWalker chronograph Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec in pink gold with anthracite dial. Source