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Montblanc Metamorphosis Collection Villeret transformer watchThe new Montblanc Metamorphosis was one of the most exciting premieres from the young Swiss watch making brand at this year’s SIHH 2010 show.Coming in a case reminiscent of Dali’s famous melting clocks, the new timepiece also features a futuristic transformer dial. With a push of a slide you can transform the regulateur-style civil time display watch into a chronograph.In its normal layout, the watch features a “lone” hour hand sub-dial at 12 o’clock, a retrograde minute hand that travels from 8 o’clock to 4 o’clock and back, and the third sub-dial with a hand indicator displays current date.Sliding the lever on the left side of the case from 10 to 8 o’clock, one can transform the watch into a chronograph with hour and minute totalizers at 12 and 6 o’clock respectively. After the slide is moved to the new position, the watch takes about 15 seconds to open, slide under one another and finally hide behind the dial two wings at 12 o’clock and four wings at 6 o’clock while lifting a new sub-dial disc that eventually “swallows” the date hand.The complication adds 315 extra parts to the original 252 parts of the Minerva Kaliber 16-29 hand-wound movement.If I understand it correctly, the Montblanc Metamorphosis watch is still in its prototype phase, but the 3d-presentation by Montblanc looks truly astonishing.

Angular Momentum Montre a Guichet Guilloche in TitaniumThe renowned Swiss watchmaker has updated its Angular Momentum Montre a Guichet Guilloche line with a model in titanium.As the original model, this feather-light version is presented in a 39.5 mm case, which is now made of titanium.Instead of a usual sapphire crystal, the watch is equipped with a 925 sterling silver Medallion a Guichet cover with a psychedelic Guilloche “Soleil Inca” a la Main finishing.Since the sterling silver is an alloy of 92.5% silver and 7.5% of other metals, the medallion is available in four colors of gold, silver, Rhodium and even purple Ruthenium.To make the timepiece usable (no one wants a watch that doesn’t tell time, no matter how beautiful it is,) the Swiss watchmaker has done a pair of diamond cut apertures at 12 and 6 o’clock to display the revolving hours and minutes disks respectively.To be frank, the solution still looks a kind of helpless compared to the gorgeous A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk mechanical watch with jumping hours and minutes.However, a comfort time representation is not the watch’s main function. Like most fashion watches, this one is, too, more of a beautiful accessory, rather than a time teller.The Angular Momentum Montre a Guichet Guilloche Titanium watch is equipped with a modified Swiss Made hand-wound caliber that features a revolving time disks complication.Alas, the movement is not visible, since the case back features a Palladium-coated 925 sterling silver medallion and is skillfully engraved with foliage on the Titanium back.I must admit that the watch is so beautiful that even the over-sized 8 mm crown with a black Onyx cabochon in its middle doesn’t spoil the picture.