We welcome Montblanc watches to our stores!
Montblanc, the ultimate and most famous business gift brand, synonymous with excellent quality and luxury, counts over 160 years of history in fine watchmaking.
Montblanc, the ultimate and most famous business gift brand, synonymous with excellent quality and luxury, counts over 160 years of history in fine watchmaking.
The story:
The history of Montblanc watches is linked to the legendary Swiss brand Minerva. In 1858, Charles-Yvan Robert founded his workshop in Villeret, a small Swiss village in the Jura mountains, marking the beginning of the historic era of Minerva, a brand that has become synonymous with the creation of high-fidelity chronographs.
By the 1880s, Minerva had established itself in the watchmaking industry, creating innovative pocket watches in which it replaced the traditional winding pivot with a crown. The company then turned to precision timekeeping and specialised in the manufacture of professional pocket watches and chronometers. A few years later, Minerva invented one of the first manual monopusher chronographs, the calibre 13.20, and a decade later, it introduced the legendary calibre 17.29, one of the thinnest monopusher chronographs, just 5.6 mm high.
Montblanc takes up the Minerva tradition by creating its handmade watch collections in the original workshops in Villeret. Every component of the watches is made and decorated by hand, including the balance wheel. It is one of the few watchmaking workshops in the world that has the expertise to handcraft a balance wheel, relying on well-trained eyes rather than modern electronic systems for precision.
Montblanc's timeless collections bridge the heavy heritage of the past with contemporary and modern design in four distinct versions: the Star Legacy, 1858, Bohème and Heritage.
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