The State Hermitage Museum Collaborates with Montblanc Watch Manufacture
In 27 June of this year, the General Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and Director of Montblanc Russia Anton A. Kuzin will sign an agreement "On the conditions of preparation and implementation of the cooperation program for the conservation of cultural heritage and the development of the State Hermitage for 2013 - 2015."
Manufacture Montblanc plans to promote the development of scientific restoration lab of watches and musical arrangements of the Hermitage. In addition, it will fund the restoration of some of the exhibits. Montblanc will share many years of experience with the staff of the restoration laboratory, learn about the traditions of their own watch manufactory. Due to the presence of a large stock of parts for the production of watches, the company will supply items, materials, tools and equipment required for the restoration of the calibres.
"Chesmenskaya chernilnitsa" – a unique set of letters for the era of Catherine II
The State Hermitage Museum and Montblanc have expressed their intention to cooperate in other areas related to the storage, restoration, study and presentation of the State Hermitage Museum of applied arts.
The cooperation of Montblanc and the Hermitage will begin with the restoration of one of the Hermitage exhibits - "Chesmenskaya chernilnitsa" - a unique set of letters for the era of Catherine II. Catherine II in Paris commissioned this inkstand with gilt bronze watch and painting on enamel in 1775 to a jeweler and enamellist Augustin Barnabée De Mailly (1723 - after 1793).
Official site of Montblanc.
Written by Angel
