Montblanc MB131297

Montblanc's watchmaking is built around the Minerva manufacture in Villeret, in the Swiss Jura, which the company acquired in 2006. Minerva's workshops date back to the nineteenth century and remain one of the few places in Switzerland where column-wheel chronograph movements are still hand-finished using traditional benching techniques rather than fully automated production. Montblanc kept the Villeret site running as a small-scale manufacture rather than folding it into mass production, preserving techniques — hand-chamfering of bridges, hand-cut tooth wheels — that most of the industry moved away from decades ago.

Reference: MB131297
Movement: Automatic
Case: Steel, 32 mm
Water resistance: 30 m
Year: 2026 — Full set