New TimeWriter II Chronographe Bi-Fréquence 1,000 Watch by Montblanc at SIHH 2012

The Swiss watch company Montblanc, always admiring the collectors and connoisseurs of watches for its splendid models at the Geneva exhibition SIHH 2012 struck with the gorgeous wristwatch TimeWriter II Chronographe Bi-Fréquence 1,000 (Ref. 107343), released in a limited edition.
The novelty, measuring time intervals up to 1/1000 second, was designed and manufactured by the company Minerva, which is part of Montblanc since 2008. The model has been worked on the Spanish master and watchmaker Bartomeu Gomila.
The round watch case in diameter of 47 mm and a thickness of 15.10 mm is made of 18 carat white gold. The crown, made of white gold and adorned with the logo of Montblanc, is located at the 3 o’clock position, and the button of the chronograph – at 12 o’clock position. The original multi-level gray anthracite dial is equipped with white Roman numerals in the central part and Arabic numerals at the top of the dial. The model is equipped with hour and minute hands of gold, and a central second hand from Pfinodal - an alloy based on copper. On the 7 o’clock position and between the indices "10" and "11" are the balance wheels, designed to measure the current time and chronological proportions. Next to the wheel, located at the top of the dial, there is a "thousandth" wheel, which rotates around its axis at a speed of ten revolutions per second for subsequent separation of each hundredth of a second into ten equal intervals and receives one hundred pulses during the rotation. The column wheel of the chronograph is controlled at two levels: the first one - start, stop and reset the hundredths of a second, the second one - thousandths.
At the 9 o’clock position on a rotating sapphire disk is second hand, and at the 3 o’clock position – a power reserve indicator with the hand display. The unique dial is closed by the curved sapphire crystal. The back side of the watch is also covered with a sapphire crystal, which allows seeing the work of the manufacturing movement MB TW 02 with manual winding. The diameter of the caliber is 38.4 mm, thickness - 10,60 mm. The total number of parts is 472; it is collected on 45 jewels, the power reserve of the mechanism - 100 hours, the power reserve of the chronograph - 45 minutes. The mechanism is equipped with two balance wheels with a frequency of 18,000 vibrations per hour - to measure the current time, and 360,000 vibrations per hour - for the measurement of the chronograph.
The manufacturing mechanism is equipped with functions of hours, minutes, seconds, power reserve chronograph, one-button chronograph with column wheel with second and minute counters at the 6 o’clock position, the central seconds hand in red, making turns at 360 0 for a second along the round scale in the flange, with divisions 1/100 second, and the pointer, measuring 1/1000 seconds.
The caliber is decorated with the “Côtes de Genève”.
The novelty is complemented with a black alligator leather strap, stitched with red threads and equipped with a gold buckle.
To buy the TimeWriter II Chronographe Bi-Fréquence 1,000 watch is not easy, as it is released a limited edition of 36 items.