{"id":2088841,"date":"2026-09-24T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2088841"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:06:57","slug":"montblanc-rieussec-chronograph-rose-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/montblanc-rieussec-chronograph-rose-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec: Rose Gold Chronograph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 1, 1821, at the Champ-de-Mars, what mattered in horse racing was not watching time elapse, but forcing a fixed needle to deposit a drop of ink onto a rotating enamel disc the instant a horse crossed the finish line<\/sup>. By naming the device the \u201cchronograph,\u201d from the Greek graphein<\/em> \u2014 to write \u2014, the Acad\u00e9mie des sciences literally consecrated the act of staining the support to capture the fraction of a second<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Montblanc Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph Limited Edition 100 reactivates this semantics of the written trace by inverting the mechanics of visibility<\/sup>. Cut from an entirely polished 18-carat rose gold (750\/1000) case measuring 43 mm, the tiered case houses a dial scenography in which the usual hour markers give way to the original kinematics: the chronograph hands remain motionless, embodied by a horizontal blued bridge, while two rotating lacquered titanium discs \u2014 60 seconds at 8 o’clock, 30 minutes at 4 o’clock \u2014 turn beneath the fixed index<\/sup>. In daylight, the dark surface reveals a discreet urban cartography; in darkness, the luminescent material reveals manuscript excerpts from the patent filed on October 15, 1821, the fa\u00e7ade of the Institut de France, and the technical drawing of the distributing pen<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mise en abyme of handwriting finds its coherence in the very lining of the black calfskin strap, tapered like a pen nib: it depicts the parcel maps of 1821 Paris, linking Rieussec’s workshop at 14 rue du March\u00e9-Palu to the one at 13 rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs where the mechanism’s development was completed<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the reverse, the manufacture caliber MB R200 unfolds a monopusher architecture with column wheel and vertical clutch<\/sup>. Its two coupled barrels guarantee a 72-hour power reserve without compromising the regularity of the screw balance wheel oscillating at 28,800 vibrations per hour<\/sup>. The rhodium-plated bridge with C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve reveals a gear train with specific gold-plated teeth, optimized to transmit energy without parasitic friction<\/sup>. Two centuries after the invention of the ink deposit, watchmaking no longer seeks to print the line: it records the trajectory of an idea that became an instrument<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design and edition:<\/strong> black calfskin strap lined with an engraved vintage map of Paris, rose gold triple-folding clasp. Limited edition of 100 numbered pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case and construction:<\/strong> 18-carat (750\/1000) polished rose gold, 43 mm in diameter by 15.01 mm thick. Fluted onion crown with mother-of-pearl Montblanc emblem, single profiled pusher at 8 o’clock, water resistance to 50 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dial kinematics:<\/strong> black luminescent dial revealing the 1821 archives under UV light. Off-center hours and minutes with a skeletonized 24-hour second time zone (day\/night indicator at 9 o’clock). Fixed chronograph counters with blued bridge over mobile discs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caliber:<\/strong> automatic monopusher manufacture movement MB R200 (319 components, 40 jewels, 4 Hz screw balance), double barrel providing 72 hours of power reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1821, Nicolas Rieussec was not trying to add a complication to the wrist: he wanted to make an instant of a race measurable. The new Star Legacy Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph Limited Edition 100 turns the archive into horological architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2080062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30122],"tags":[53611,78889],"class_list":["post-2088841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watches-and-jewelry","tag-montblanc","tag-single-button-chronograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}