{"id":32055,"date":"2019-01-09T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:29:49","slug":"focus-montblanc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/focus-montblanc-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Focus: Montblanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>TimeWalker Chronograph Manufacture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASE :<\/strong> satin-brushed stainless steel, ceramic fixed bezel, domed sapphire crystal, smoky sapphire crystal caseback opening, water-resistant to 100m<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIAMETER :<\/strong> 43mm<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOVEMENT :<\/strong> mechanical self-winding Montblanc MB 25.10 caliber, 46h power reserve<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNCTIONS :<\/strong> hours, minutes, small seconds, chronograph, tachymeter scale, date<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIAL :<\/strong> black and white \u2018reverse panda\u2019, luminescent hands and hour-markers<\/p>\n<p><strong>STRAP :<\/strong> distressed brown Sfumato calfskin, stainless steel triple folding clasp<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reverse panda<\/p>\n<p>Through its TimeWalker watches, Montblanc pays tribute to the history of its Manufacture Minerva, and particularly to the spirit of competition that enabled it to distinguish itself in motorsports during the early 20th century. In 2018, the collection is welcoming two new chronographs equipped with \u2018reverse panda\u2019 dials. Successfully launched during the 1960s and 70s, this extremely legible type of dial is characterized by the contrast between black and white : black counters against a white background for the \u2018panda\u2019 type watch faces ; and white counters on a black backdrop for the \u2018reverse panda\u2019 versions. Even more than the new two-counter TimeWalker Chronograph Automatic, the most authentic example of the \u2018reverse panda\u2019 type is the TimeWalker Chronograph Manufacture : its three counters at 3, 6 and 9 o\u2019clock evoke the animal\u2019s eyes and nose. It is naturally housed in the signature imposing case with half-skeletonized lugs recalling the air vents on a car\u2019s bodywork, along with a knurled crown reminiscent of vintage petrol tank caps. Its retro nature is accentuated by the perforated distressed leather strap crafted by the Montblanc Pelleteria in Florence. Meanwhile, the in-house movement features a state-of-the-art monobloc rotor made of black rhodium-plated tungsten and shaped like a steering wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TimeWalker Chronograph Manufacture CASE : satin-brushed stainless steel, ceramic fixed bezel, domed sapphire crystal, smoky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}