Montblanc, a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches, jewellery and leather goods has just introduced the Metamorphosis II which took four years to develop right after the release of the first Metamorphosis in 2010. Montblanc took a formal path with this watch, whereas its predecessor was definitely on the sporty side. Like its predecessor, the watch is a regulator. There is a central minute hand and running seconds at the center of the dial, and there is an hour subdial at 12 o’clock. The slider at 10 o’clock, which looks like an activator of a minute-repeater, actually activates the “metamorphosis.”
The dial is gold-decorated throughout. And if you count, you’ll find eight different decorations on it. There’s satin finish on the classic time hour subdial, grain d’orge (barley) guilloché on the center part, a fillet sauté (raised edge) on the periphery of the entire dial, and a straight satin finished decorated date. Then after sliding into the chronograph mode, the hour dial now has a hand guillochéd-spiral with a satinated tour around it, the subdials have dark Clous de Paris guilloché margins, and, as a cherry on top – there’s the contemporary touch of a sapphire-crystal bridge that spans from 5 o’clock to 7 o’clock.
The manufacture movement MB M 67.40 is a hand-wound chronograph with horizontal clutch and column wheel. The main plate is of rhodium-plated nickel silver with circular graining on both sides. Geneva stripes decorate the Rhodium-plated bridges. It has a total of 746 components – 494 of which are dedicated to the metamorphosis function – and one of which is dedicated to a classic devil’s tail Minerva bridge.
Montblanc has limited the manufacture of the Metamorphosis II to just 18 pieces (that’s 10 less than its predecessor). Pricing has yet to be released, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it is in the range of its predecessor – ballpark of $200,000. Get more of your other favorite wristwatch brands on WatchWorld.
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