Introducing Monta Adds a GMT Function with the Noble Voyager

There isn't much watch manufacturing taking place in the United States, but the past several years have seen a strong resurgence in American-based watch brands, such as Nodus, which offers a wide range of timepieces.

Now, let's explore a brand we're discovering together for the first time, the Monta Watch Company. Founded in 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Monta is renowned for its high-quality, Swiss-made sports watches. The brand combines traditional Swiss craftsmanship with modern design and technology, resulting in durable, elegant timepieces.

Originally introduced in 2020, the Noble collection is Monta’s most refined lineup of timepieces. It represents the brand’s take on an elegant luxury sports watch. While the original Noble was a standard time-and-date watch, the brand’s latest release for 2024 adds the utility of a secondary timezone display.

The case of the Monta Noble Voyager is crafted from 316L stainless steel with a brushed and polished finish. It features a high-polished bezel, measures 38.5mm in diameter, 10.7mm in thickness, and has an overall lug-to-lug profile of 47mm. The Noble Voyager includes a flat sapphire crystal with seven layers of anti-reflective treatment, a display-style caseback, and a signed screw-down crown at the 3 o’clock position, supporting a water resistance of 150 meters.

Both blue and green dials for the new Monta Noble Voyager feature a sunburst finish and a radial gradient effect that darkens toward the outer edge, known as “dégradé.” The addition of a 24-hour scale makes the dial display more detail, and there is a date window at the 6 o'clock position. The hands and applied hour markers on the Monta Noble Voyager have a high-polished finish with luminous inlays, using blue-glowing BGW9 Super-LumiNova, except the seconds hand, while the GMT hand is skeletonized and tipped with Super-LumiNova.

Powering the Monta Noble Voyager is the brand’s Caliber M-23 automatic GMT movement, which is also found in its Atlas and Skyquest collections. The Cal. M-23 is essentially Monta’s version of the Sellita SW330-2, running at a frequency of 28,800vph (4 Hz) with a power reserve of approximately 56 hours.

The Monta Noble Voyager features the brand’s standard three-link bracelet, with brushed surfaces, a quick-adjust system, and a deployant clasp. Pre-orders are open now for August 2024 delivery, priced at 8,000 AED.

For more information, please visit Monta official website.