America?s largest luxury watch event, WatchTime New York, is returning for its fifth consecutive year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 25-26. This year?s event is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with 37 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Montblanc, which will be featuring ? among its many 2019 offerings ? the expanded Montblanc 1858 collection.
Montblanc 1858 Geosphere
The 1858 Collection was reintroduced at SIHH 2015 as a platform for vintage-focused design that leans on Montblanc’s shared history with the erstwhile Minerva manufacture. In 2018, Montblanc sought to build the collection out in earnest by adding a number of entirely new references, including the 1858 Automatic, the 1858 Chronograph, and the 1858 Geosphere. This year, Montblanc is outfitting those three models with bronze cases and khaki-green dials to add an ever greater dose of outdoor aestheticism, as well as adding a new chronograph to the collection that is equipped with a split-second mechanism. A Minerva chronograph from the 1930s that helped inspire the 1858 Collection.
Many of the key, identifying details remain consistent from last year’s releases. Each model features large Arabic numerals as well as cathedral shaped hour and minute hands that have been injected with Super-LumiNova. There’s a vintage Montblanc logo found at 12 o’clock (3 o’clock for the Geosphere) on each of the khaki-green ...