Montblanc dedicates latest 1858 Geosphere to Reinhold Messner
Montblanc is introducing an 1858 Geosphere Limited Edition dedicated to Reinhold Messner, the legendary climber and explorer
Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author. He is renowned for his pioneering ascents of the world’s highest peaks, and his variation of the Seven Summits Challenge, known as Messner’s List, is considered the most challenging one.
He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen along with Peter Habeler. He was also the first person to climb all 14 peaks over 8,000 metres, in addition to many other feats.
Montblanc 1858 Geosphere Messner Limited Edition 262 pieces
Limited to 262 pieces, the timepiece is a nod to all the peaks over 26,200 feet that he climbed during his career. It made sense to link Messner’s achievements with the Montblanc 1858 Geosphere; as a starting point the turning globes on this timepiece include red dots with the world’s Seven Summits. The caseback features an image of the Mont Blanc mountain, the complete Messner list, a compass, and two crossed ice pick-axes. An engraving of Messner’s signature has also been specially added to the Limited Edition.
The timepiece is housed in a 42 mm special bronze alloy case with slim, curved horns that are decorated with both polished and satin finishings. It comes with a fluted bi-directional bronze bezel featuring shiny blue ceramic and the four engraved cardinal direction points that are coated with Super-LumiNova. The dial is a gradient blue colour with rose gold-coated and beige elements.
The hours, minutes, second time-zone hands, cardinal points on the bezel, as well as the arrows (for the compass) are highlighted in green Super-LumiNova, while the globes with their continents, Arabic numerals, and indexes appear in blue Super-LumiNova.
The Montblanc 1858 Geosphere Messner Limited Edition of 262 pieces is powered by the Manufacture automatic Calibre MB 29.25, with a worldtime complication that includes two turning domed globes representing the northern and southern hemispheres that make a full rotation every 24 hours. They are surrounded by a scale with the 24 time zones, along with a day/night indicator. A second time zone is located at nine o’clock and a date window (linked to the local time) is positioned at three o’clock. The longitude reference meridian for both hemispheres is highlighted with a blue line coated with SuperLumiNova. With this simple and vintage worldtime display, the Limited Edition 262 brings an instinctive way of reading the time around the world. A luxury blue NATO strap completes the look of the timepiece.
