Montblanc

Probably the last dual-branded crazy piece from Minerva/Montblanc… ...  

It looks truly spectacular and I couldn't be more happy for you! Wear it in the best of health. Cheers, Emmanuel

Minerva/Montblanc, including the cylindrical tourbillon geosphere Trilogy of the Around the World in 80 days series.

Looking forward to seeing more photos from this grail!

Cool and impressive at the same time. Cheers and congratulations, Filip

The artistic techniques they used on this one are indeed impressive, and the execution is top notch as well.

Beautiful piece, congrats on securing one allocation. I like (among other things) the very discrete placement of “Montblanc”

But I do not mind getting the "last in the series" of the dual branded exo tourbillons. Being Montblanc co-branded, this watch comes with the Montblanc-shaped diamond on the winding crown too

Huge congratulations

A big added point for me here is the movement architecture with the exo tourbillon providing for the elevated positioning of a very large balance wheel above the dial surface. The tourbillon cage here is smaller than the balance wheel - and very beautiful... 

Just out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the gold part with "VIII" written on it opposite the single arm bridge, is it purely decorative?

This is purely decorative, they usually put the limitation number there on their suspended exo tourbillons. Here "VIII" stands for the Limited Edition of 8.

what an impressive watch

I agree, there is plenty of details to appreciate here: artistic and technical. I very much like the idea behind and looks of the Exo Tourbillon - it allows to employ a very large balance wheel that gets elevated above the dial surface for a true 3-d look... 

and I am also not bothered by the dual branding at all ...  

Twisted in a very artistic way. I am now thinking about the cylindrical tourbillon geosphere - as I also want to have that twisted infinity bridge in the collection.

Have you seen the geosphere? For me it wears too big in appearance due to the globes….

And very 3-d due to the tourbillon’s height and the globes!

the geosphere has a height of 16.6 and a diameter of 47mm whilst mine has got 18.2 at 47mm. So it is an illusion of my mind that the geosphere looks "larger".

Quite a visual to see the tourby in action. The design of the time dial is phenomenal.

High artistry and finishing. I recently tried on the dark blue aventurine exo tourbillon suspendu and was truly blown away. I do believe there was an edition coming out and I completely forgot the theme, it was a person of antiquity I believe. Super happy... 

Yes, they released a couple of fully skeletonized versions recently. The skeletonization work is very nice and airy and the movement has no less than 420 inward angles! In fact, it looks so airy that I do worry about the plate’a stability…

A really gorgeous piece of art. I am looking forward to seeing more pictures, especially of the backside. This is really a great catch! Many congrats Thomas

Will post a pictures thread towards the end of April!