Montblanc

The production of Montblanc's timepieces occur in two locations. Their top of the line Villeret timepieces dedicated to serious collectors are manufactured at the transformed Minerva factory located in Villeret. Previous our PuristSPro moderator/watchmake...  

It's interesting to see the fusion of manual design efforts (like drawings) with technology like computers, and all the various other machines seen in your post. It does make you wonder what it must've been like to design, build and test watches 100 years... 

all the watchmakers are out on their 3 week break but when they get back I will hopefully have some more technical information on the exact DLC process MB uses. I've also asked Mr. Schmiedt if I can have a sample to do some extreme testing on Hopefully so... 

Let me see if I can find my safety goggles around here somewhere...looking...looking... Thanks, Mike! Hope your week is going well, so far! Cheers, Daos

for a wonderful tour.... Cheers

Great job Don and Mike. - SJX

Wow, the Montblanc Team work in a very nice place! It is always something to see the creators of our watches at work...In the creation moment! Thanks for this report, Mike. Best, Nicolas

I too am curious like Daos about the "one of the first" to use DLC. Which was MB's first watch to use DLC? Cheers, Anthony PS. Below is the Montblanc DLC Sports Chronograph that debuted as this past SIHH 2009 (pic by SJX) This message has been edited by A...  

to the PPro ABR. Quite honestly I think it could give B&R and Panerai base models a run for their money. Best, Mike

. . . watchmakers at work and the tools at their disposal are always fascinating. Did you notice anyone peeking at our Montblanc forum while they were supposed to be working? Hopefully, Art

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