Paying tribute to Minerva’s extraordinary heritage, Montblanc requires a journey back to the
glory events of motor racing with five new TimeWalker timepieces that capture the sweetness, spirit
and values of motorsport history. The rebirth of such professional watches showcases the
performance and innovation of the new Montblanc TimeWalker collection.
Inspired by performance
The Montblanc TimeWalker Collection symbolizes the spirit of racing and harks back to these
instruments of glory by giving a distinct new professional watches for your modern performer
that take their inspiration from Minerva’s outstanding history. The Minerva Manufacture was
known as an exclusive workshop that produced high-quality instruments for measuring brief
intervals of your energy with remarkable precision. The renowned “Rally Timer”, a stopwatch that’s
developed to time motor racing with precision, is the perfect example of this heritage. Minerva
watches were the reference in horological innovation, with plenty patents
registered over the years from the domain of precision timers, creating a legacy of savoir-faire.
Legitimacy of history
Founded in 1858 in Villeret from the Saint-Imier Valley, Minerva is a leading specialist in
the fabrication of professional watches. From 1908, it had been already successfully pursuing new
technological challenges, such as the manufacture of watches designed with chronograph
functions and highly accurate stopwatches that measured short intervals of your energy. The
Manufacture developed stopwatches that could measure 1/5th of your second since 1911,
rapidly increasing to 1/10th of your second. On this innovative spirit, in 1916, the Minerva
Manufacture was one of the first to make a high-frequency movement that could measure
1/100th of your second, an improvement that’s further technically improved in 1936, putting
Minerva on the map because the specialist of professional swiss watches and stopwatches.
The modern Montblanc TimeWalker collection combines these legendary timing instruments of the
past with the spirit of motor racing, encapsulating the Minerva heritage, superb technology,
masculine energy, highest performance and also the style of the glory events of racing.
The final results are evocative, vintage-themed though contemporary, and suitable for modern
performers that like to express their achievements, ambitions, masculinity, style and personality
in their choice of wristwatch. Great for both business and leisure, the modern Montblanc
TimeWalker timepieces command respect and admiration and underline the confidence of those
who use them.
Performance
The modern Montblanc TimeWalker collection represents a powerful contemporary expression of the
professional sport chronograph with a 43 mm case size that has become a typical size for
Montblanc’s performance timepieces. In the case on the dial, from your movement on the
complications, the collection targets masculine energy as well as a vintage-themed style, while
combining performance, innovation, great legibility and robustness. Emblematic combinations
of materials be important in every of the models, like high-tech black ceramic, satinated
steel, titanium and rubber, highlighting the Maison’s creative spirit.
The aesthetic codes of the new Montblanc TimeWalker timepieces are directly rooted from the
realm of racing: satinated cases and semi-skeletonized horns with architecturally carved flanks,
all inspired through the aerodynamic lines of the bodywork of classic cars. Iconic details include
knurled finishing about the flank of the emblematic black ceramic bezel, and so on the crowns
and pushers, that are reminiscent of vintage car caps; smoked glass case backs inspired through the
glass windows that reveal sporty V12 engines; and strap holes that pay tribute to vintage leather
racing gloves.
Clear legibility and visibility are achieved with strong contrasts of colour, three-dimensional
counters inspired by vintage dashboards, precise scales and dauphine-shaped hands with
SuperLuminova for the greatest readability and satisfaction by day and night. For utmost
precision, a lot of the TimeWalker timepieces feature a legendary central seconds hand coated in
red with the tip crafted the same shape as the Minerva arrow.
In order to guarantee the reliability of this type of sporty professional products, each of the Montblanc
TimeWalker models undergo over 500 hours of controls, with specific testing and general
operating evaluation under two extremes. To also ensure sporting performance when it comes to
waterproofness, each of the models are water-resistant to 100 metres.
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