Chateau Versailles LE 8
Probably the last dual-branded crazy piece from Minerva/Montblanc… ...
Oh my god! So you finally were allocated one! Huge congratulations!
It looks truly spectacular and I couldn't be more happy for you! Wear it in the best of health. Cheers, Emmanuel
Thank you very much, dear Emmanuel! I almost did not get the allocation, but one collector agreed to pass his allocation to me as he was already in posession of several tourbillions from
Minerva/Montblanc, including the cylindrical tourbillon geosphere Trilogy of the Around the World in 80 days series.
I'm glad everything turned out for the best! What an impressive piece!
Looking forward to seeing more photos from this grail!
Thank you very much, my friend!
The artistic techniques they used on this one are indeed impressive, and the execution is top notch as well.
Congrats
Beautiful piece, congrats on securing one allocation. I like (among other things) the very discrete placement of “Montblanc”
Thank you very much! From now on they will be issuing these type of top notch watches under the single Minerva brand only.
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
Very clean execution with traditional high-level techniques and inward angles - will post when I have a chance!
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...
That is spectacular
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?
Thank you for appreciating!
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.
Thank you very much!!
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...
Yes, the exo Tourbillon is really a nice patent with great looks
and I am also not bothered by the dual branding at all ...
I love the tourbillon bridge on yours! And the watch is great as a whole, of course.
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.
The twisted bridge is really a marvel
Have you seen the geosphere? For me it wears too big in appearance due to the globes….
Indeed, these watches are sizable!
And very 3-d due to the tourbillon’s height and the globes!
just checked on the data
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".
Spectacular! Congrats
Quite a visual to see the tourby in action. The design of the time dial is phenomenal.
This is an absolute grail level piece
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...
Thank you very much for appreciating
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…
This is outstanding!!
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