Summit

Presented in March 2017, the Montblanc Summit is the brand's first smartwatch and one of the first connected watches to carry the signature of a historic luxury watchmaking manufacture: built on the Android Wear 2.0 platform (the ancestor of Google's more recent Wear OS), it combines digital functions — notifications, Google Assistant, activity tracking, water resistance — with a case and crown that explicitly echo the proportions and finishes of the mechanical watches in the Montblanc catalogue, including the six-pointed star on the crown and several digital dials that mimic the graphics of the brand's analog collections.

The first generation was followed by the Summit 2 and, more recently, the Summit 3 (2022), which adopts the Wear OS 3.0 platform — the first implementation of this system on a non-Samsung device — paired with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100 Plus processor. The case, available in 42 mm titanium in various colorways (silver, black or bicolor), integrates a rotating crown and two pushers that recall chronograph language, while the software and sensors (sleep, heart-rate and blood-oxygen monitoring, Google Pay and Google Play support) place it firmly among the most functionally complete high-end smartwatches. A Summit Lite variant also exists, conceived as a more modest entry point into the brand's digital universe.

The line occupies a particular position in the Montblanc catalogue: unlike 1858, Star Legacy, Heritage or Bohème, which are rooted in mechanical watchmaking and the Minerva legacy, the Summit represents the brand's attempt to remain present in the smart wearables segment without giving up the aesthetic codes and materials typical of Swiss high watchmaking, at a price positioning that, at the Summit 3's launch, placed it at roughly double that of a high-end general-purpose device.