TimeWalker TwinFly Chronographe
109134
| Brand : | Montblanc |
| Collection : | TimeWalker |
| Model : | TimeWalker TwinFly Chronographe |
| Reference : | 109134 |
| Complement : | Steel - Aligator Bracelet |
| On sale : | 2013 |
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Brand : Montblanc Collection : TimeWalker Model : TimeWalker TwinFly Chronographe Reference : 109134 Complement : Steel - Aligator Bracelet On sale : 2013 List Price : 6 390 € Diameter : 43 mm Thickness : 15.30 mm Styles : Sporty Types : Self-winding Calibre : Montblanc MB LL100 Complication : Flyback Chronograph 24-Hour Display Small Seconds Second Time Zone (UTC) 60-Minute Counter Case material : Stainless steel Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Shape : Round Water-resistance : 30 meters Dial color : Silver Display : Luminescent hands Central chronograph minute hand Indexes : Baton-type Arabic numerals Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Domed Strap material : Alligator leather Strap color : Dark brown Strap clasp : Triple folding buckle + More characteristics : Movement
Automatic twin-fly chronograph. Column wheel control and vertical disc clutch
13 3/4'' (31mm)
Height: 7.90mm
303 parts
Large balance wheel with screws (moment of inertia: 12 mgcm2. diameter: 9.70mm)
Flat hairspring
Twin barre
Rhodium-plated and circular-
grained plates
Rhodium-plated bridges with Geneva striping
Wheel train with special
toothing for more efficient power transmission
36 jewels
Frequency:
28 800 vibrations per hour
Power reserve: approx. 72 hours
Complications:
Flyback chronograph with central minute and second hands. 24-hour display with second time zone
DESCRIPTION
- The Montblanc TimeWalker Watches for Globetrotters
We Travel from One Time Zone to Another
On Monday, January 21st 2013 at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, the new Montblanc TimeWalker watches will be unveiled to the public and the international press
Globalization ranks among the most important aspects of modern life. Goods and services are exchanged around the planet. Financial currents follow the opening hours of the world’s stock exchanges and flow around the world once each day. Residing in Germany, cultivating business relationships in the USA and enjoying holidays in the Seychelles: such arrangements and countless variations on them have become everyday features in modern people’s lives. But this global presence has its cost because the sun never really sets on our planet: only from the local perspective does the sun appear to sink below the horizon, while it simultaneously rises into the sky elsewhere on Earth. If an American executive goes to a business dinner in Shanghai at eight o’clock in the evening, his family will still be fast asleep in San Francisco, where the local time is five o’clock in the morning, while his colleagues at European headquarters in Paris will be returning from their lunch break. That’s why global living makes it so important to keep a sharp eye on time zones and time differences in one’s interactions with partners, friends, colleagues, loved ones and clients. One certainly wouldn’t want to needlessly awaken a loved one or a customer with an ill-timed long-distance phone call in the middle of the night. Such mishaps are the undesirable results of failure to take time differences into account.
Watches that simultaneously show the time in more than one zone are accordingly an important speciality for watchmakers. Such timepieces belong to a genre in which Montblanc has achieved several attention-getting feats. These so-called “time-zone watches” can satisfy very different requirements for globetrotters and frequent flyers. Among these functions are the simultaneous display of the times in both the user’s local and home zones or the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time +/- time zone) function, but also the ability to show all of the planet’s 24 time zones at a glance, including day/night indication for the home zone, as well as showing the date, facilitating quick and easy changes from one zone’s display to another, etc.
Montblanc combines the TimeWalker’s modern, contemporary design with technical horological competence in three different interpretations for people who love to travel. Extremely practical functions for travellers are offered in the unmistakable TimeWalker look with narrow bezel, spacious dial, unified typography for the numerals and elegantly skeletonised horns to affix the wristband.
Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph
Home Time is always in View
This chronograph in unmistakable Montblanc TimeWalker design combines a chronograph function, which is very popular with men, and the indication of the time in a second zone. It thus unites two complications that are extremely useful in daily life. And it achieves this union in a rather unconventional manner with central positioning for both its elapsed-seconds hand and its hand for sixty elapsed minutes. This arrangement was very popular forty years ago, but vanished into oblivion afterwards. That’s difficult to understand because this constellation improves the legibility of elapsed-time measurements and simultaneously frees space for a subdial with a 24-hour scale to show the time in a second zone. The small seconds at the “6” and the date window at the “3” complete the ensemble of this highly functional and exclusive
timepiece.
The time-zone function is an extremely useful addition to a watch in today’s age of mobility. And the way this function is realized on the Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph enables it to be operated very simply and flexibly. The 24-hour subdial at the “12” can be adjusted to indicate the hour in any desired second time zone, although most users will probably choose to set it to show the time at their permanent residence. Its scale is calibrated for 24 hours, so it simultaneously provides day/night information, which is further emphasized by a fine relief: sunrays symbolize daytime hours and a celestial dome signifies the hours of the night. This home time remains unchanged when the wearer embarks on a journey, while the display on the main display can be set to show the new local time. This is easily accomplished by withdrawing the crown to its first extracted position, after which the hour-hand on the main dial can be separately reset in hourly increments until it shows the new local time, while the minute hand, which requires no resetting, continues to run unaffected by the change in the hour-hand. The TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph is animated by Montblanc’s manufacture calibre MB LL 100, which features automatic winding, column-wheel control and disc coupling for the chronograph, a flyback function, a large screw balance that vibrates at a pace of 28,800 A/h (4 Hz), a double barrel for 72 hours of running autonomy and optimized profiles on the gears’ teeth to increase the efficiency with which energy is transferred. The entire ticking microcosm embodies an ideal combination of traditional chronographic mechanisms and state-of-the-art technology.
The ensemble is styled in the iconographic TimeWalker look, with which Montblanc has created a genuine classic. The 43-mm stainless steel case has a narrow bezel and offers ample room for a spacious dial on which relief numerals and diverse scales are positioned for good legibility. Both new models of this watch are available with a linked bracelet made of stainless steel or a brown alligator-leather strap secured by a triply folding clasp.
- The Montblanc TimeWalker Watches for Globetrotters
We Travel from One Time Zone to Another
On Monday, January 21st 2013 at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, the new Montblanc TimeWalker watches will be unveiled to the public and the international press
Globalization ranks among the most important aspects of modern life. Goods and services are exchanged around the planet. Financial currents follow the opening hours of the world’s stock exchanges and flow around the world once each day. Residing in Germany, cultivating business relationships in the USA and enjoying holidays in the Seychelles: such arrangements and countless variations on them have become everyday features in modern people’s lives. But this global presence has its cost because the sun never really sets on our planet: only from the local perspective does the sun appear to sink below the horizon, while it simultaneously rises into the sky elsewhere on Earth. If an American executive goes to a business dinner in Shanghai at eight o’clock in the evening, his family will still be fast asleep in San Francisco, where the local time is five o’clock in the morning, while his colleagues at European headquarters in Paris will be returning from their lunch break. That’s why global living makes it so important to keep a sharp eye on time zones and time differences in one’s interactions with partners, friends, colleagues, loved ones and clients. One certainly wouldn’t want to needlessly awaken a loved one or a customer with an ill-timed long-distance phone call in the middle of the night. Such mishaps are the undesirable results of failure to take time differences into account.
Watches that simultaneously show the time in more than one zone are accordingly an important speciality for watchmakers. Such timepieces belong to a genre in which Montblanc has achieved several attention-getting feats. These so-called “time-zone watches” can satisfy very different requirements for globetrotters and frequent flyers. Among these functions are the simultaneous display of the times in both the user’s local and home zones or the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time +/- time zone) function, but also the ability to show all of the planet’s 24 time zones at a glance, including day/night indication for the home zone, as well as showing the date, facilitating quick and easy changes from one zone’s display to another, etc.
Montblanc combines the TimeWalker’s modern, contemporary design with technical horological competence in three different interpretations for people who love to travel. Extremely practical functions for travellers are offered in the unmistakable TimeWalker look with narrow bezel, spacious dial, unified typography for the numerals and elegantly skeletonised horns to affix the wristband.
Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph
Home Time is always in View
This chronograph in unmistakable Montblanc TimeWalker design combines a chronograph function, which is very popular with men, and the indication of the time in a second zone. It thus unites two complications that are extremely useful in daily life. And it achieves this union in a rather unconventional manner with central positioning for both its elapsed-seconds hand and its hand for sixty elapsed minutes. This arrangement was very popular forty years ago, but vanished into oblivion afterwards. That’s difficult to understand because this constellation improves the legibility of elapsed-time measurements and simultaneously frees space for a subdial with a 24-hour scale to show the time in a second zone. The small seconds at the “6” and the date window at the “3” complete the ensemble of this highly functional and exclusive
timepiece.
The time-zone function is an extremely useful addition to a watch in today’s age of mobility. And the way this function is realized on the Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph enables it to be operated very simply and flexibly. The 24-hour subdial at the “12” can be adjusted to indicate the hour in any desired second time zone, although most users will probably choose to set it to show the time at their permanent residence. Its scale is calibrated for 24 hours, so it simultaneously provides day/night information, which is further emphasized by a fine relief: sunrays symbolize daytime hours and a celestial dome signifies the hours of the night. This home time remains unchanged when the wearer embarks on a journey, while the display on the main display can be set to show the new local time. This is easily accomplished by withdrawing the crown to its first extracted position, after which the hour-hand on the main dial can be separately reset in hourly increments until it shows the new local time, while the minute hand, which requires no resetting, continues to run unaffected by the change in the hour-hand. The TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph is animated by Montblanc’s manufacture calibre MB LL 100, which features automatic winding, column-wheel control and disc coupling for the chronograph, a flyback function, a large screw balance that vibrates at a pace of 28,800 A/h (4 Hz), a double barrel for 72 hours of running autonomy and optimized profiles on the gears’ teeth to increase the efficiency with which energy is transferred. The entire ticking microcosm embodies an ideal combination of traditional chronographic mechanisms and state-of-the-art technology.
The ensemble is styled in the iconographic TimeWalker look, with which Montblanc has created a genuine classic. The 43-mm stainless steel case has a narrow bezel and offers ample room for a spacious dial on which relief numerals and diverse scales are positioned for good legibility. Both new models of this watch are available with a linked bracelet made of stainless steel or a brown alligator-leather strap secured by a triply folding clasp.
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Brand : Montblanc Collection : TimeWalker Model : TimeWalker TwinFly Chronographe Reference : 109134 Complement : Steel - Aligator Bracelet On sale : 2013 List Price : 6 390 € Diameter : 43 mm Thickness : 15.30 mm Styles : Sporty Types : Self-winding Calibre : Montblanc MB LL100 Complication : Flyback Chronograph 24-Hour Display Small Seconds Second Time Zone (UTC) 60-Minute Counter Case material : Stainless steel Case peculiarity : Sapphire caseback Shape : Round Water-resistance : 30 meters Dial color : Silver Display : Luminescent hands Central chronograph minute hand Indexes : Baton-type Arabic numerals Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Domed Strap material : Alligator leather Strap color : Dark brown Strap clasp : Triple folding buckle More characteristics : Movement
Automatic twin-fly chronograph. Column wheel control and vertical disc clutch
13 3/4'' (31mm)
Height: 7.90mm
303 parts
Large balance wheel with screws (moment of inertia: 12 mgcm2. diameter: 9.70mm)
Flat hairspring
Twin barre
Rhodium-plated and circular-
grained plates
Rhodium-plated bridges with Geneva striping
Wheel train with special
toothing for more efficient power transmission
36 jewels
Frequency:
28 800 vibrations per hour
Power reserve: approx. 72 hours
Complications:
Flyback chronograph with central minute and second hands. 24-hour display with second time zone