A transforming display---Montblanc Metamorphosis II Watch

The Metamorphosis II’s party piece happens when it changes from classic time display to some monopusher column wheel chronograph. In classic mode, the watch face has Roman numbers and shows hours, minutes, and also the date. Press the slide around the left side of the case, and also the bottom and top quadrants of the dial split and slide aside to show new sub-dials in Arabic numbers.
         
However, this isn’t only a simple reveal - not when 82 moving components take part in the secret. Behind the curtain, an intricate mechanical adjusting happens as the watch sets itself up for brand new functions and also the sub-dials beneath rise to accept originals’ place. Pressing the slide again reverses the procedure.

An essential point would be that the change is much more than aesthetic. In chronograph mode, the second hand turns into a seconds counter and also the date dial is changed by an passed 30-minute dial. The clever bit is the fact that even if the watch is within one mode, still it works within the other.

That's, the date counting function still continues during chronograph mode and the watch still counts passed minutes during classic mode - even when it’s been days because the mode was triggered. Because the transformation is run by an exact pressure regulator operated by another barrel, the five-second change doesn't interrupt the functions and also the readouts remains accurate.

To create all of this happen, the Metamorphosis II includes a hand-wound, 85-jewel Megabytes M 67.40 movement having a 50-hour power reserve which includes a screw balance along with a monopusher chronograph with horizontal clutch and column wheel. The movement is composed 0f 746 parts, including 494 (85 moving) active in the metamorphosis, along with a sapphire bridge. The primary plate is rhodium-plated nickel silver, much like the bridges.

The movement is placed in the 52 mm, 18K red gold case having a sapphire crystal that's water resistant to 3 atm (3 bar, 30 m, 100 foot). The dial is gold and decorated with a number of hand-crafted finishes, including "Grain d’orge" guilloché, "Clous de Paris" guilloché, spiral guilloché, along with a circular satin finish.

The hour and minute hands have been in 18 K gold and also the date hand is nickel silver, as the chronograph hands are Pfinodal. Obviously, the strap is hand-stitched alligator leather having a triple-folding 18 K gold strap. The Montblanc Metamorphosis II is limited to 18 models in a sobering cost of €270,000 (US$340,000).

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