Thanks for the report.
Many years ago, a huge watch collector (huge collection and not huge body ) said to me : "I like the Villeret chronograph movements and in-house hairsprings but I would never buy a watch with the name 'Montblanc' on the dial".
I don't know if that person has changed opinion since I left Singapore.
It did provoke thought. Now, Montblanc is established in horology and confident enough to combine old-school watchmaking with modern materials science and design. This TimeWalker ExoTourbillon Minute Chronograph is attractive to the modern, Generation Z, design-conscious, affluent aficionado. It complements their style and does not look awry in their Bugatti, Maserati or Porsche. The carbon fibre, bead-blasted titanium caged case looks like it was plucked out of a Porsche dashboard. or it could replace the Chrono Dashboard package that Porsche keeps trying to sell.
Rather than the traditional 300-year old designs of Abraham-Louis Breguet, Ferdinand-Adolph Lange or Jean Adrienne Philippe that were good for their Day, this Montblanc TimeWalker case looks cool today.
Maybe its a German attitude but Karl-Fried Scheufele did the same in tribute to Ferdinand Berthoud: traditional horology updated for the 21st century. Of course, the Montblanc TimeWalker ExoTourbillon has a different function and is more affordable but they share the same concept of fusing old tradition with new technology.
On the price point, Montblanc has to ne commended!
Regards,
MTF