WatchTime New York, America?s luxury watch show, returns to the Big Apple in October! As we count down to the big event, taking place at Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we continue to showcase many of the new timepieces that guests will discover there. This week, we preview the limited edition, green-dialed version of the Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph.

Montblanc 1858 Monopusher Chronograph Limited Edition 100
The watch is one of several new pieces from the revamped 1858 collection, which takes its name from the founding year of Minerva, the historically acclaimed maker of chronographs that was acquired by Richemont and absorbed into Montblanc in 2006. With 2018 marking Minerva’s (now Manufacture Montblanc’s) 160th anniversary, Montblanc has incorporated many of its historic design codes into this modern collection, along with a “mountain exploration” theme (Montblanc is, after all, named after a mountain). The 1858 collection pays tribute to the year of Minerva’s founding.
The 40-mm stainless steel case has slim, curved lugs with polished and satin finishing, a rectangular pusher at 2 o’clock to start, stop, and zero the chronograph, and a large, vintage-style fluted crown. Under the domed sapphire “box” crystal, the smoked green dial offers several period-appropriate details from early Minerva watches, such as the cathedral-shaped, cloisonné-style hour and minute hands, the railway minute track, the tachy...