Paying tribute to Minerva’s extraordinary heritage, Montblanc takes a journey to the
glory events of motor racing with five new TimeWalker timepieces that capture the sweetness, spirit
and values of motorsport history. The rebirth of the professional watches showcases the
performance and innovation from the new Montblanc TimeWalker collection.
Inspired by performance
The Montblanc TimeWalker Collection symbolizes the spirit of racing and harks to these
instruments of glory by offering a type of new professional watches for that modern performer
that placed their inspiration from Minerva’s outstanding history. The Minerva Manufacture was
called a special workshop that produced high-quality instruments for measuring brief
intervals of time with remarkable precision. The renowned “Rally Timer”, a stopwatch that’s
developed to time motor racing with precision, is the ideal example of this heritage. Minerva
watches were the reference in horological innovation, with plenty of patents
registered over the years from the domain of precision timers, making a legacy of savoir-faire.
Legitimacy of the past
Founded in 1858 in Villeret from the Saint-Imier Valley, Minerva is a huge leading specialist in
the fabrication of professional watches. From 1908, it was already successfully pursuing new
technological challenges, such as the manufacture of watches furnished with chronograph
functions and highly accurate stopwatches that measured short intervals of time. The
Manufacture developed stopwatches which could measure 1/5th of the second as early as 1911,
rapidly increasing to 1/10th of the second. With this innovative spirit, in 1916, the Minerva
Manufacture was one of the first to produce a high-frequency movement which could measure
1/100th of the second, an enhancement that’s further technically improved in 1936, putting
Minerva on the map since the specialist of professional swiss made watches and stopwatches.
The brand new Montblanc TimeWalker collection combines these legendary timing instruments from the
past using the spirit of motor racing, encapsulating the Minerva heritage, superb technology,
masculine energy, highest performance and also the kind of the glory events of racing.
The results are evocative, vintage-themed though contemporary, and designed for modern
performers they like to convey their achievements, ambitions, masculinity, style and personality
of their choice of wristwatch. Great for both business and leisure, the brand new Montblanc
TimeWalker timepieces command respect and admiration and underline the confidence of these
who use them.
Performance
The brand new Montblanc TimeWalker collection represents a strong contemporary expression from the
professional sport chronograph which has a 43 mm case size that has been a regular size for
Montblanc’s performance timepieces. Through the case towards the dial, through the movement towards the
complications, the gathering targets masculine energy as well as a vintage-themed style, while
combining performance, innovation, great legibility and robustness. Emblematic combinations
of materials be important in every from the models, including high-tech black ceramic, satinated
steel, titanium and rubber, highlighting the Maison’s creative spirit.
The aesthetic codes from the new Montblanc TimeWalker timepieces are directly rooted from the
whole world of racing: satinated cases and semi-skeletonized horns with architecturally carved flanks,
all inspired with the aerodynamic lines from the bodywork of classic cars. Iconic details include
knurled finishing around the flank from the emblematic black ceramic bezel, as well as the crowns
and pushers, that happen to be paying homage to vintage car caps; smoked glass case backs inspired with the
microsoft windows that reveal sporty V12 engines; and strap holes that pay tribute to vintage leather
racing gloves.
Clear legibility and visibility are achieved with strong contrasts of colour, three-dimensional
counters inspired by vintage dashboards, precise scales and dauphine-shaped hands with
SuperLuminova for the best readability and gratifaction during the day and night. For utmost
precision, almost all of the TimeWalker timepieces feature popular central seconds hand coated in
red using the tip crafted in the shape of the Minerva arrow.
To ensure the longevity of a real sporty professional product line, each of the Montblanc
TimeWalker models undergo over 500 hours of controls, with specific testing and general
operating evaluation under extreme conditions. To also ensure sporting performance in terms of
waterproofness, each of the models are water-resistant to 100 metres.
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