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Louis Vuitton Cruise 2014 watch collection. Louis Vuitton is well known for its state-of-art leather craftsmanship and specialisation on the leather goods. However, leather goods are not the limit! You can complete with your style with LV a watch!

Louis Vuitton acquired a Swiss watch manufacturer whilst the expanding the LV brand to watch business. This is a very cleaver decision and enables to introduce hand-built automatique watches. The important with the automatique movement is, it is not using a quartz crystal and every single detail is mechanical. In watch business, mechanic movement is more appreciated than quartz movement. The main reason, quartz movement is really low priced to manufacture and has a tendency to show inaccurate time.

The other issue with quartz movement is, it is mass production and nothing is really special with that. You can find the same movement in a cheap and an expensive, so you just pay the extra money for nothing. However, automatique movement is unique and it is designed only for that particular watch.

Louis Vuitton Cruise 2014 watch collection definitely reflects the detailed craftsmanship of leather goods in mechanic watch world.

Montblanc is well-known for its writing instruments. However, it is not the only product range they do offer. Today, I wanted to talk about Montblanc’s new watch, TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph.

I know, Montblanc gave a very long name to this watch but that’s necessary. Like cars, watches are very complicated products. Since they were invented, the fundamentals of the watches did not change that much. Pure mechanics!

TimeWalker TwinFly is also a mechanical watch with MB calibre (MB L100) with automatic movement and chronograph function. The case is 43 mm shot-blasted titanium, so this makes it impossible to destroy. Bezel is fixed shot-biased made from titanium.

The reason for this in-depth detail is to emphasise the characteristics of the TimeWalker TwinFly watch. And show the Montblanc’s dedication to detailed craftsmanship. This is not a quartz watch, runs with crystal. It is pure mechanical.

One of the main characteristics of Monblanc watch is the anti-posing. Posing is intangible, unlike engineering you cannot specify it very easily. A Montblanc watch is not designed to be a posing item and flash in every place you visit. Instead, Montblanc watch shows that you like automatic watches and you don’t wish to show it to everyone.

Some people say, watch is a car that you can wear. In my opinion, Montblanc can be similar to McLaren. Perfect engineering, outstanding quality but only people who really knows that product understands it.

Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech LE888 (107338) – £9,500

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