Sometimes a company widely known for making one product branches out into other areas in order to make profit on its reputation. Montblanc, a century-old manufacturer of mechanical pencils, ballpoint pens and fountain pens, acted precisely that way. In 1997, the company expanded its product line to include jewelry and luxury watches.
Montblanc products are easily recognizable by their white six-pointed star logo with rounded edges, representing the snowcap of the Montblanc mountain. As for Montblanc watches, the logo of the brand can be noticed on the counterbalance of the second hand.
Relatively new to watchmaking, Montblanc has already made considerable progress. Eleven years after the launch of the Montblanc watch line, the company created its own movements – the automatic MBR200 and the manually wound MBR100 calibres. It is a huge achievement for Montblanc – it means that the company has gained enough experience to conceive, design and produce its own movements all the way through, from start to finish.
Over the years, Montblanc has introduced several watch collections, but the one that holds a special place amongst Montblanc watch lines is the Nicolas Rieussec collection. It was named after the Swiss watchmaker who invented the world’s first chronograph in 1822 and comprises chronographs powered by the Montblanc in-house movements. Another watch line of Montblanc, the Sport Collection, is designed for people with an active lifestyle engaging in sports activities. The Montblanc Star 4810 collection includes watches that have an extremely simple and clear design so that it is easy to measure time with them. The product offerings of the company also include the Profile collection comprising timepieces with rectangular cases, the purist Summit Large collection with extremely flat watches, the Timewalker and Star collections, travel timepieces and ladies’ watches.
Clearly, the watches targeted at customers who can spend thousands of dollars purchasing a Montblanc gold fountain pen cannot be cheap. But what choice do those who are not part of this target group have? They can give up their dream and continue using the computer or the mobile phone to check the time, or they can opt for a replica Montblanc watch. Montblanc replicas look exactly the same as the genuine watches. They even weigh as much as the original Montblanc timepieces. The heart of Montblanc watch replicas is as reliable as the in-house movement developed by the watchmaking house. The only significant difference between them is that instead of gold and platinum used to make Montblanc timepieces the materials used to craft replica Montblanc watches only look like precious metals.
This explains the great difference in the price of genuine and fake Montblanc watches. Instead of buying a genuine Montblanc watches, one can buy a dozen Montblanc replicas from different collections and wear them on different occasions.