A lot of watchmaking history these days comes to us in the form of marketing from big brands that are trying to part us from our money through references to heritage and provenance. There’s still a lot of real history out there, though. A ton of it, actually. And when you find it, sitting in front of you in a large wooden cabinet on the top floor of a building across from some scenic cow pastures in the Swiss Jura, it’s nothing short of awesome. I paid a visit to the Montblanc-owned Minerva manufacture in Villeret, Switzerland, last week and found some pretty amazing stuff.
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