Bohème

Launched in 2018, the Bohème is the main collection Montblanc dedicates to a female audience, conceived more as a style statement than as a simple family of watches: the brand explicitly presents it as the expression of a bohemian "state of mind," made up of self-confidence, creativity and authenticity, rather than as a direct reference to a specific place or artistic movement. Small-diameter cases (30 and 34 mm), jewelry techniques such as guilloché and stone-setting, and interchangeable leather straps have defined its identity since its debut.

The model that best sums up the collection's spirit is the Bohème Day & Night, whose complication — an indication of the cycle between sunrise and moonlight, rendered in an Art Deco graphic language — translates into watchmaking mechanics a theme dear to the brand's aesthetic. The dial, often in white silver worked with traditional decorative techniques, is flanked by eight Top Wesselton diamond indexes in the most precious executions, while the blue calfskin strap with an alligator-scale effect is interchangeable to adapt the watch to different styles.

On the high-end women's watchmaking front, the collection has also offered the Bohème Perpetual Calendar Limited Edition 88 (the number 8, repeated to evoke the idea of infinity and good fortune, recurs both in the run size and in other details), made in 18K white gold with a bezel set with 58 diamonds and a dial in Avventurina glass — a Venetian Renaissance glass containing microscopic suspended copper particles that creates an effect similar to a starry sky. The in-house MB 29.22 movement that powers it, with 378 components, 259 of which dedicated exclusively to the perpetual calendar, is the same technical architecture used in other high-end complications of the brand, here miniaturized and made compatible with a compact diameter.