9/16/2023 0 Comments 4810 orbis terrarum ebay![]() ![]() The whole thing is attached to a nicely executed stainless steel chain, whose distinctive shape recalls the ropes used in seafaring. The watch is heavy and perfectly sits in your hand. What could be disturbing for a wristwatch is here an advantage, participating to the perceived quality. The case is entirely polished and weights a lot. Of course a bit larger than a wristwatch, it remains reasonable for a pocket watch, making it easy to wear (don’t forget that today’s clothes tend to be more fitted than before, and thus your pockets are much smaller…). In details, what is the Montblanc 4810 Orbis Terrarum Pocket Watch 110 years Edition, besides being a pocket watch? Well, it’s a 53mm block of stainless steel. Once this barrier surpassed, the result is certainly pleasant. Wearing a pocket watch is something you do knowingly and that has to be matched with the rest of your attitude and outfit. There is something that you have to play with, mixing it with an entire attitude that, compared to old times, will be looked as strange, posh or sophisticated for some. This ritual, which you’ll certainly do less often than just pulling up your sleeve (something that you certainly do a hundred times a day), is what makes a pocket watch both formal, elegant and “ dandy”. It has to be appreciated in a different way: it wears differently, it uses differently, it somehow obliges you to a certain ritual, to pull out a large and heavy object out of your pocket, hold it in your hand and look at it to see the time. Yes, it’s a pocket watch and yes, it does look superb – and somehow totally out of the norm and thus, completely fashionable. The 4810 Orbis Terrarum Pocket Watch shares the same spirit, the same display and the same movement than that of the wrist version but in a totally different case. With the Orbis Terrarum, this is no more the case but still, you’ll enjoy an automatic watch with an in-house developed and assembled world-time module. However, such a complication is usually rather expensive – something we showed to you in a comparative review. In our days of travelling and worldwide meetings, having the entire main 24 time-zones visible in a glance on a single dial is something extremely practical. Basically, it gives the opportunity to enjoy the world-time complication in an affordable way. The Montblanc 4810 Orbis Terrarum Pocket Watch is mechanically based on the Orbis Terrarum wristwatch, a timepiece that we covered, tested, compared and explained several times here, and that we highly recommend. This is the reason why, today, we’re giving our interest to the Montblanc 4810 Orbis Terrarum Pocket Watch 110 years Edition, with its world-time function and a look that is just the right mix between antique and modern. Which leads to the question: wouldn’t it be quite cool to wear something different, something voluntarily outdated and offset, like a pocket watch? And if wearing a 100 years old timepiece on a daily basis is not such an easy task, a modern-built pocket watch with a contemporary look could well be the ultimate hype trend. Every single brand is looking at their past, re-introducing some of their most glorious models. However, in the last 10 years, vintage / heritage / antique are the major trend. In vintage stores, the story is a bit different but still, pocket watches (with only a few exceptions) are not priced to the level of wristwatches, which shows a disinterest of collectors. If you go in a watch store, whether for affordable or extremely high-end timepieces, what you’ll see in the displays will be wristwatches and maybe, just maybe, one or two pocket watches. If they have only one timekeeping device, it will be, without a doubt, a wristwatch. We’re not even talking about mere humans. A vast majority of collectors and watch-aficionado mainly – if not only – have wristwatches in their displays. We’re all used to looking at the time on our wrists. However, with the actual trend of vintage, couldn’t it be distinguished and fashionable to attach the chain of a pocket watch back on your finely tailored suit? That’s what we’re going to look at with the Montblanc 4810 Orbis Terrarum Pocket Watch 110 years Edition, a both modern, practical (display-wise), complicated, elegant and well-priced pocket / table watch. Pocket watches turned into an obsolete object, more prone to adorned collectors’ displays and museums than to be worn. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, along came wristwatches, which through the first half of the 20th century, became the norm. Well, in fact it seems certainly understandable, given they were the only available option to carry the time. ![]()
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