At first I thought it was a Jardur Chronograph reassembled with a Minerva dial. But a good friend sent me a picture of an ad... And now, I know... Best, Nicolas

A rare beast, I only saw once in person: Featured in this ad: Best, Nicolas

I saw on IG yesterday they there is a new collaboration Minerva being released on October 3rd. I believe a caliber 13-21

Some years ago, I took pictures of this vintage Minerva Chronograph... And I wondered if it was not a Minerva dial mounted in a Jardur Case, with a Jardur bezel. Till... Recently, when a good friend and an editor asked for some pictures in hi resolution o

as the movement that you show was a 'left-over' from the era before, the era under the ownership of the Frey family. The current Montblanc/Minerva movements Cal. 62-00, Cal. 13-21, Cal. 16-15 and Cal. 16-29 have been developed under the Italian owners. He

so the minute "jumps" semi-instanteously To quote from my review of the Grand Chronographe Email which containes the same movement: "The chronograph minute hand is “semi instantaneous”. It will start moving approximately ½ second before t

Andrew Here is a picture I found of this movement (but then as monopusher cal 13-21) And here another shot of the movment of my watch, cal 13-20 regards Wim

I am talking about the shape and the geometry of the chronograph teeth. Minerva sought to improve the measurement of time by optimising the interaction of the transfer wheel (which is mounted in the axis of the seconds wheel and engages, once the Chronogr

with its arrow-shaped top: I consider this an aspect that shows the attention to details in a very subtle way. Such tiny Minerva arrows were first introduced in the Cal. 16-29 and 62-00, but now Montblanc/Minerva also included them in the Cal. 13-21 and 1