A Wallet-Friendly Travel Watch That Ticks All the Right Boxes
The Montblanc Heritage GMT looks great on a hike, great in a meeting, and great at dinner—and at $3,000 with the mesh strap, is a great value proposition to boot.
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Originally published by Stephen Pulvirent on Hodinkee.
Every watch enthusiast has his or her favorite complication. Some people are obsessed with chronographs, others go nuts for calendars. For me, if I'm wearing something with more than three hands, it's going to be a travel complication of some kind. And, as far as those go, I'm a man of simple tastes: An easy-to-use GMT hand will serve me just fine, with or without an external bezel to add further utility. The watch we have here today is one of the cleaner, more straightforward GMT watches on the market today, and the fact that it comes in at just a hair over $3,000 on a mesh bracelet only adds to the appeal. The Montblanc Heritage GMT is just the kind of watch for which The Value Proposition was created.
The new Heritage collection was first shown off back in January at SIHH 2019, and we've already shown you the two most complicated models in the family, the Heritage Spirit Pulsograph and the Heritage Perpetual Calendar. The idea with the collection was to create a line of watches that would appeal to people who like more classic, vintage-inspired designs without creating the sort of faux-vintage pieces that have become popular in recent years. It's a third way, of sorts, and I think that, from the case shapes to the typography, Montblanc has done a pretty darn good job across the board.