Montblanc 1858 Small Second 0 Oxygen

Montblanc reimagines the 1858 Small Second 0 Oxygen in a new, smaller 38mm size, complemented by a vintage-inspired aesthetic to bring together modern watchmaking techniques and materials with timeless design codes.

The timepiece features a lacquered dial with luminescent Arabic hand and indexes, a colour-matched date wheel behind a beveled aperture at 3 o’clock, and a symmetrically positioned sub-dial for the running seconds. The traditionally styled "railroad" minute-track around the outer edge of the dial is punctuated with numerical markers at the five-minute positions. This is echoed by the same surround for precise reading of seconds on the sub-dial.

Meanwhile, the Super-LumiNova®-filled cathedral hands harken back to expedition watches of the 1920s and 30s. Completing the vintage-inspired look is a fixed bezel with a black ceramic insert that includes luminescent cardinal compass points accented with small triangle direction indicators in between.