This week, Montblanc becomes the first of Richemont’s major watch brands to unveil new models and collections that were originally set to debut at Watches & Wonders Geneva in late April, since cancelled along with its sister event, Baselworld. Headlining the new releases are a trio of colorful-dialed models from its Heritage collection, with designs inspired by the legendary Minerva watch maison, a chronograph specialist now incorporated into Montblanc. Here is the lowdown on the new Heritage Pulsograph Limited Edition, Heritage Monopusher Chronograph, and Heritage Automatic.
The Montblanc Heritage Automatic is now offered in a British Racing Green colorway.
Paying aesthetic tribute to Minerva watches of the 1940s and ’50s, the Heritage models are distinguished by fully polished cases with curved lugs and facets, curved Dauphine hands, multilevel dials with dot indices and a minute track, and box-shaped sapphire crystals. The flagship of this year’s collection, the Montblanc Heritage Pulsograph Limited Edition 100, features an eye-catching, smoked-finish tobacco dial and a matching brown Sfumato alligator leather strap. Referred to by vintage-timepiece enthusiasts as a “doctor’s watch,” its signature function is a chronograph that was once used by doctors to measure a patient?s resting heart rate via the pulsograph scale on the dial’s periphery. The dial itself is slightly domed and hosts a sunray finish in its center and a grai...