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Good friends eat same food, wear same watch brand? Clearly not a marketing set up shot, this photograph has actors Adrian Brody and Gerard Butler each eating McDonald's burgers, sitting court-side at a Lakers' game, and both wearing Montblanc timepieces. What else do they have in common?Brody is seen with a Montblanc Star Sport watch in steel. The classic sport themed watch comes in a few dial colors, has a Swiss ETA Valjoux 7750 automatic chronograph movement, and is about 42mm wide - retails for $3,735. Butler is wearing a Montblanc Timewalker Dual Carbon Chronograph which is part of the brands well-known TImewalker collection of watches. This one has a two coatings of DLC (diamond like carbon) for hardness and the block color and is matched with gold accents. It is 43mm wide on a leather strap and also has as Valjoux 7750 automatic chronograph movement. Price for it is about $6,480. Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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.