Montblanc is possibly best known these days for its popular vintage-influenced collections like the 1858 Geosphere and Automatic Chronograph, and its Heritage series, which was most recently updated last week with two new gold models and a new monopusher chronograph. Today we look at Montblanc’s more contemporary-focused Star Legacy series, which recently added two new models.

These new additions include the Star Legacy Automatic Date and Star Legacy Chronograph Day&Date, two new models featuring pebble-shaped cases, onion crowns, and the ?star? guilloché pattern on their dials from which the series draws its name. The new watches will be 43 mm in size ? the first time the brand has used this case size within the collection ? and will be available in steel with either ivory or anthracite colorways. The ivory models of both use 18K rose gold-coated accents, while the anthracite colorway opts for black rhodium coating.
The Star Legacy Automatic Date, as mentioned, uses a 43-mm, polished steel case with a small onion crown drawing inspiration from historical Minerva pocketwatches from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. On the dial of the model, we find a white or black outer minute ring marked at each 5-minute mark with small Arabic numerals and red accents at each 15-minute position. Just within these markers are small dots of lume, while large applied alternating roman numerals and tick marks are used for the hour markers  within those. At t...