MONTBLANC

1858 GEOSPHERE

Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, Puncak Jaya, Mont Blanc and Kosciuszko ‒ these are the seven highest mountains from each continent around the world that make up the Seven Summits challenge, the most difficult mountaineering quest ever, with only 500 athletes having achieved the mission to date. While paying tribute to the 160th anniversary of Minerva, the Montblanc manufacture in Villeret salutes the adventurous climbers who set out on the holy grail of mountaineering with the 1858 Geosphere: upon the rhodium-coated black dial with beige Super-LumiNova Arabic numerals and indexes, the Seven Summits are marked on the globes with red dots. The 1858 Geosphere features a world time complication with two turning domed hemisphere globes ‒ the northern hemisphere at 12 o’clock turns anti-clockwise, while the southern hemisphere turns clockwise, both surrounded by a scale with the 24 time zones, along with a day/night indication in contrasting colours.