Hence, these Montblanc Villeret 1858 Chronograph Vintage Replica Watch were genuinely multifunctional instruments that wed high functionality with masterful horological artistry. This grand tradition lives on in the Vintage Chronographe.The periphery of the Vintage’s dial was reserved for the telemeter scale, so the tachymeter scale was shifted into the center, where it was coiled like a snail’s shell so that it would be long enough to be used for tachymeter measurements up to three minutes in duration. As went without saying in bygone years and as is naturally also true of today’s Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858, the entire dial is crafted in the most exclusive manner. The face is covered with grand feu enamel: a platelet of solid gold is heated in a kiln to a temperature of around 800 degrees Celsius, thus fusing it to an uppermost layer of vitreous molten enamel.
To preserve the proportions and thus the overall impression of a typical Villeret watch, all of the case’s parameters (including the horns) had to be entirely newly designed and constructed. Like all other watches in the Montblanc Villeret 1858 Replica Watch will be available only in a strictly limited edition. The result is a timepiece which unmistakably shows that it belongs to one of the world’s most exclusive lines of watches, yet nonetheless makes a somewhat sportily technical impression. Here, the series consists of 58 timepieces in 18 K red gold cases with white grand feu enamel dials and brown alligator-leather wristbands, and another set of 58 watches in 18 K white gold cases with black grand feu enamel dials and black alligator-leather wristbands.
This wide variety of specific applications and highly precise movements helped Montblanc Replica Watch watchmakers to earn a fine reputation as chronograph specialists. Some of the dials with finely calibrated scales were used on timepieces that could measure intervals to the nearest hundredth of a second. The manufacture’s archive preserves from those years many enamel dials which are marked with specially calibrated scales for special applications in the exacting discipline of measuring brief intervals: for example, some of these dials were destined for use in regatta watches, others in pulsometers or counters.A coiled scale of this kind was a typical and frequent feature on the legendary Minerva chronographs from the 1910s and 1930s. Today too, they continue to enjoy unanimous admiration from connoisseurs and aficionados of mechanical timekeeping.
