Montblanc celebrates the second year as the Official Timing Partner of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and releases two new TimeWalker Limited Edition watches inspired by the Minerva’s 160 year history. The new watches are the TimeWalker Chronograph and TimeWalker Automatic Date.
The estate of Goodwood was transformed into the Festival of Speed from July 12 to 15. Considered as one of the greatest festivals of car culture in the world today and an important fixture on the British social calendar, motor racing enthusiasts were entertained by some of the world’s most accomplished racing drivers behind the wheels of some of today’s rarest and most spectacular machinery.
The festival was founded in June 1993, and the founder, the Duke of Richmond (formerly Lord March) presented 25 of its most memorable moments through an exhibition of cars and drivers.
Montblanc lends its timekeeping expertise to the numerous races during the event. The culmination of the Festival of Speed is the Hillclimb Shootout. And for the second year running Montblanc sponsors the winning prize – this year, the new The Montblanc TimeWalker Manufacture Chronograph “Cappuccino” edition.
The Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak which won the Goodwood Festival’s Hillclimb Shootout: driven by Romain Dumas. The four-wheel drive Volkswagen I.D R Pikes Peak hillclimber is an electric car, the first to claim the prize at a record time of 43.86sec. Pic from Car and Bike.
Volkswagen Romain Dumas and Montblanc EVP Maketing Vincent Montalescot
Montblanc TimeWalker Manufacture Chronograph Limited Edition – 1.500 pieces
Movement
Montblanc Manufacture Calibre MB 25.10
Type of movement Mechanical movement with automatic winding, chronograph & date Chronograph Bi-pushers with column-wheel and horizontal coupling
No. of components 232
Number of Jewels 33
Power Reserve Approx. 46 hours Balance Screw balance,
diameter = 10 mm; moment of inertia = 12 mgcm2
Frequency 28.800 A/h (4 Hz)
Hairspring Flat
Rhodium-plated with circular graining and “Côtes de Genève” Bridges Rhodium-plated with circular graining and “Côtes de Genève”
Displays Hours and minutes from the centre, small seconds at 6 o’clock Tachymeter scale on the bezel Chronograph’s elapsed-second hand from the dial’s centre 30-elapsed minute and 12-elapsed hour counters at 3 and 9 o’clock
Habillage
Case Stainless steel, satin-finished case, fixed black ceramic bezel with silvery-white engraved tachymeter scale
Crystal Scratch-resistant, domed sapphire and antireflective coating crystal Back Stainless steel with inset pane of smoked sapphire crystal
Dimensions Diameter = 43 mm; Height = 15.20 mm
Water-resistance 10 bar (100 m)
Dial “Panda” dial with “Cappuccino” beige background and brown counters, rhodium-plated Arabic figures and indexes coated with SuperLumiNova®, rhodium-plated luminescent dauphine hour-hand and minute-hand, red baton chronograph second hand with Minerva arrow at the extremity Brown flange with white markers framed in grey or red and coated with Super-LumiNova® indicating the five-minute marks
Crown Black DLC with knurled finishing and Montblanc emblem in relief
Wristband Perforated vintage brown Sfumato, aged, calf leather strap coming from the Montblanc Pelletteria in Florence, Italy with stainless steel triple folding clasp
Certified by the Montblanc Laboratory Test 500 (* Super-LumiNova® is not a trademark owned by Montblanc)
Montblanc TimeWalker Date Automatic Limited Edition – 500 pieces
Movement
Calibre MB 24.17
Type of movement Mechanical movement with automatic winding, date
Number of Jewels 26
Power Reserve Approx. 38 hours
Balance Flat hoop Frequency 28.800 A/h (4 Hz)
Hairspring Flat
Displays Hours, minutes and seconds from the centre 12-hour scale on the unidirectional rotating bezel Date window at 3 o’clock
Habillage
Case Stainless steel, satin-finished case, high-tech black ceramic bezel with silvery-white engraved 12-hour scale and knurled finishing on the flank
Crystal Scratch-resistant, domed sapphire and antireflective coating crystal Back Stainless steel with inset pane of smoked sapphire crystal
Dimensions
Diameter = 41 mm; Height = 11.38 mm
Water-resistance 10 bar (100 m)
Dial “Cappuccino” beige dial, rhodium-plated Arabic figures and indexes coated with Super-LumiNova®, rhodium-plated luminescent dauphine hour-hand and minute-hand, red baton chronograph second hand with Minerva arrow at the extremity Brown flange with white markers framed in grey or red and coated with Super-LumiNova® indicating the five-minute marks
Crown Black DLC with knurled finishing and Montblanc emblem in relief
Wristband Perforated vintage brown Sfumato, aged, calf leather strap coming from the Montblanc Pelletteria in Florence, Italy with stainless steel pin buckle
