Paying tribute to Minerva’s extraordinary heritage, Montblanc has a journey time for the
glory times of motor racing with five new TimeWalker timepieces that capture the wonder, spirit
and values of motorsport history. The rebirth of such 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 time for these
instruments of glory by providing a line of new professional watches to the 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 energy with remarkable precision. The renowned “Rally Timer”, a stopwatch that was
created to time motor racing with precision, is the best example of this heritage. Minerva
watches were the reference in horological innovation, with plenty patents
registered over time inside the domain of precision timers, developing a legacy of savoir-faire.
Legitimacy of the past
Founded in 1858 in Villeret inside the Saint-Imier Valley, Minerva has become a leading specialist in
the fabrication of professional watches. From 1908, it was already successfully pursuing new
technological challenges, such as the manufacture of watches equipped with chronograph
functions and highly accurate stopwatches that measured short intervals of energy. The
Manufacture developed stopwatches that can measure 1/5th of an second as early as 1911,
rapidly increasing to 1/10th of an second. On this innovative spirit, in 1916, the Minerva
Manufacture was one of the primary to generate a high-frequency movement that can measure
1/100th of an second, an enhancement that was further technically improved in 1936, putting
Minerva in the spotlight because specialist of professional swiss made watches and stopwatches.
The new Montblanc TimeWalker collection combines these legendary timing instruments from the
past together with the spirit of motor racing, encapsulating the Minerva heritage, superb technology,
masculine energy, highest performance and also the design of the glory times of racing.
The results are evocative, vintage-themed though contemporary, and suitable for modern
performers who like to convey their achievements, ambitions, masculinity, style and personality
within their collection of wristwatch. Great for both business and leisure, the newest Montblanc
TimeWalker timepieces command respect and admiration and underline the confidence of these
who use them.
Performance
The new Montblanc TimeWalker collection represents a strong contemporary expression from the
professional sport chronograph using a 43 mm case size that is an ordinary size for
Montblanc’s performance timepieces. In the case towards the dial, from the movement towards the
complications, the collection concentrates on masculine energy as well as a vintage-themed style, while
combining performance, innovation, great legibility and robustness. Emblematic combinations
of materials are important in each from the models, like 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 inside the
whole world of racing: satinated cases and semi-skeletonized horns with architecturally carved flanks,
all inspired from the aerodynamic lines from the bodywork of classic cars. Iconic details include
knurled finishing around the flank from the emblematic black ceramic bezel, and also on the crowns
and pushers, which are similar to vintage car caps; smoked glass case backs inspired from 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 performance by day and night. For utmost
precision, almost all of the TimeWalker timepieces feature a legendary central seconds hand coated in
red together with the tip crafted in the shape of the Minerva arrow.
To ensure the robustness of such a sporty professional product line, all the Montblanc
TimeWalker models undergo over 500 hours of controls, with specific testing and general
operating evaluation under opposites. To also ensure sporting performance regarding
waterproofness, all the models are water-resistant to 100 metres.
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