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« il: Marzo 19, 2010, 04:30:26 am »
With its unmistakable dial, which emphasizes finely calibrated scales, the Vintage Chronographe is a superlative device for the measurement of brief intervals of time. Connoisseurs of port wines know that the appellation “vintage” is exclusively reserved for wines from the finest years. The same applies to this new chronograph in the Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858, which boasts a spirally shaped tachymeter scale in the center of its dial. A coiled scale of this kind was a typical and frequent feature on the legendary Minerva chronographs from the 1920s and 1930s. 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. Some of the dials with finely calibrated scales were used on timepieces that could measure intervals to the nearest hundredth of a second. This wide variety of specific applications and highly precise movements helped Villeret’s watchmakers to earn a fine reputation as chronograph specialists. Today too, they continue to enjoy unanimous admiration from connoisseurs and aficionados of mechanical timekeeping.

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. Hence, these watches were genuinely multifunctional instruments that wed high functionality with masterful horological artistry. This grand tradition lives on in the Vintage Chronographe. 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 850 degrees Celsius, thus fusing it to an uppermost layer of vitreous molten enamel. The quiet ticking beneath this noble dial hints at the presence of the legendary Minerva Caliber 16-29, a movement which is endowed with all the characteristics that raise the pulse rate of watch lovers: a large and weighty balance, with adjustment screws along its rim, oscillates at a pace of 18,000 A/h (2.5 hertz); a balance-spring with a Philips terminal curve; a swan’s neck fine adjustment mechanism; a V-shaped chronograph-bridge; a meticulously and manually beveled and finely finished chronograph-lever; classical horizontal coupling; and a column-wheel to control the chronograph’s functions. Naturally, the mise en function, i.e. the exact abrading of the chronograph-lever, is performed during many hours of painstaking manual craftsmanship to a precision of several 1,000ths of a millimeter.

A new feature, on the other hand, is the outward impression made by this device for measuring brief intervals. The watch’s case has a rather unpretentious but nevertheless contemporary diameter of 43.5 millimeters. 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. 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. Like all other watches in the Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858, the Vintage Chronographe will be available only in a strictly limited edition. Here, the series consists of 58 timepieces in 18 ct red gold cases with white grand feu enamel dials and brown alligator-leather wristbands, and another set of 58 watches in 18 ct white gold cases with black grand feu enamel dials and black alligator-leather wristbands.  
 
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« Risposta #1 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 07:00:27 am »
Non avrà il nome da antica manifattura di oorlogeria, non avrà dalla sua la storia, ma a me questo quà piace proprio.
Sarà per la forma discreta ed antica, sarà per quel monopulsante coassiale, sarà per quelle per me tranquillizzanti 18000 a/h, fatto sta, che me lo comprerei proprio.

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« Risposta #2 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 07:35:37 am »
alanford ha scritto:

Non avrà il nome da antica manifattura di oorlogeria, non avrà dalla sua la storia, ma a me questo quà piace proprio.
Sarà per la forma discreta ed antica, sarà per quel monopulsante coassiale, sarà per quelle per me tranquillizzanti 18000 a/h, fatto sta, che me lo comprerei proprio.


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« Risposta #4 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 08:31:36 am »
Cmq molto bello il mio concessionario di fiducia li vende e devo dire
che ci sono pezzi molto interessanti ma i prezzi forse troppo alti!

alanford

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« Risposta #5 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 08:33:05 am »


Però questo è in oro rosso.
Del prezzo si era parlato?

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« Risposta #6 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 08:51:57 am »
Mi pare 39.000 €!

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« Risposta #7 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 09:13:12 am »
con quel prezzo se lo possono tenere....

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« Risposta #8 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 09:54:07 am »
stupendo,[:p][:p]
veramente l'altissimo di gamma.

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« Risposta #9 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 10:11:00 am »
airangel ha scritto:

con quel prezzo se lo possono tenere....

io invece lo trovo "commisurato" al pezzo...lasciando perdere i "soliti" discorsi di marca.

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« Risposta #10 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 15:21:24 pm »
l'orologio e' molto bello
certo che con 39.000 euro mi compro 1/4 di casa!

alanford

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« Risposta #11 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 15:28:45 pm »
BRICCO ha scritto:

airangel ha scritto:

con quel prezzo se lo possono tenere....

io invece lo trovo "commisurato" al pezzo...lasciando perdere i "soliti" discorsi di marca.


Già, se il crono nuovo di patek, dovesse superare i 60K come si diceva ieri!

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« Risposta #12 il: Marzo 19, 2010, 15:48:34 pm »
Magnifico, col suo fascino retro, il monopulsante e la scala tachimetrica a chiocciola!
L'unica cosa che non va è il prezzo....[:(]

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« Risposta #13 il: Marzo 20, 2010, 11:54:41 am »
STUPENDO!!!!!!!!!però mi sembra un tantino esagerato come prezzo...

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« Risposta #14 il: Marzo 20, 2010, 12:14:12 pm »
topdown ha scritto:

STUPENDO!!!!!!!!!però mi sembra un tantino esagerato come prezzo...


giusto un "tantino".... [}:)]