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What better opportunity for a brand to introduce its latest timepieces than the SIHH 2010 event, which this year has brought together some of the most innovative watches of the past few decades, with daring designs and unthinkable progressive mechanisms. Amongst the participating brands we can mention Montblanc, whose performance on the stage of watch manufacturing has been outstanding over the years, and this time it made no exception. The new timepiece revealed by Montblanc is called the Montblanc Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Watch and was produced in the context of a project designed to encourage young professionals of the watch *** industry to develop their own mechanism and design for a watch, all viewed as a sustainable project for the improvement and development of the watch manufacturing tradition. Behind the creative process of *** the new Montblanc Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Watch were two young watch makers whose driven passion for Haute Horology managed to give birth to this exquisite timepiece. The names of the two are Johnny Girardin and Franck Orny, who maintained the rigorous standards of technical performance, while adding a touch of modernity and innovation to the design of the watch. Based on the chronograph calibre MBM 16.29, the new Montblanc Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Watch offers the possibility of providing the functions of either a chronograph, or a wrist watch. Regarding the design, we can say that they two designers have went for an unconventional shape of the case, being round in the upper part and a little but prolonged in the lower part. The case measures 47 mm in diameter and it's crafted from 18 carats white gold. The black dial features a sub-dial located at the top of the case for the hours that use Roman numerals as hour markers and another sub-dial providing the function of showing the date, located at 6 o'clock. It takes just about 15 seconds for the new Montblanc Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Watch to turn from a watch into a chronograph and the other way around, this technique being quite familiar to car constructors. The hands adorning the dial are made of stainless steel and are luminescent coated, and the other detailing viewed on the dial is on red, *** a beautiful contrast with the silvery case, and black dial. The highly sophisticated mechanism of the Montblanc Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Watch comprises 252 individual parts, and the counting goes up to 567 components. This new watch offered by Montblanc was distributed in a limited number of 28 pieces; it has 50 m water resistance and is available at 195,000 Euros. Timewriter 1 Metamorphosis Pictures Gallery

Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 Vintage ChronographeA couple of weeks ago the young Swiss watch maker brand has introduced its new vintage Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 Vintage Chronographe monopusher chronograph watch.Like a number of recently introduced vintage chronograph watches, the new Montblanc Vintage Chronographe is powered by a vintage-styled but nevertheless pretty modern movement. In this particular case it is the Minerva Kaliber 16-29 manual-wind chronograph movement that we have already seen on the highly exclusive Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 Grand Chronographe Authentique limited edition monopusher unveiled in 2008.Like the preceding model, the Vintage Chronographe sports only one 30-minute totalizer at 3 o’clock, which is visually balanced with a small second hand located at 9 o’clock.Its dial with a spiral tachymetric scale, as well as the characteristically shaped winding crown combined with a single chronograph pushpiece also remind us about the years when chronographs were at the peak of their success, serving both as pieces of luxury and as real time measuring devices.What is interesting about this watch is that the tachymetric scale was removed from its traditional place at the periphery of the dial, transferred to the central position and replaced by the telemeter scale. The latter is used to measure not the speed of but distance to the particular object or an event. For example, when trying to understand how far is a thunderstorm from your house, you can push the button after seeing a flash and then push it again when you hear the sound of the thunder. The result will be accurate to a point of 0.1 km.Of course, all these features make the dial look a trifle busy and the fact that the spiral tachymetric scale intersects the areas reserved for the chronograph and small second subdials doesn’t help much in reducing the clutter.Well, this Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 Vintage Chronographe is still one of the best new models that the Swiss brand can offer for this year.Unfortunately, the total production run of the model will be limited at 118 pieces, evenly split between the red gold and white gold versions.