Announcing the winners of the Montblanc Villeret TimeWriter II contest
As all of us know, this contest was difficult and challenged our community's understanding of mechanical engineering.
But in true PuristS form our members researched and disected the heart of the TimeWriter II Bi-Fréquence 1000 to understand Mr. Gomila's brillant idea.
Out of the all the entries there was one grand prize winner who answered every question correctly.
Please help me congratulate Tick Talk!
Tick Talk will be enjoying an all expense paid trip to Montblanc's workshop in Villeret!
Two other PuristS came darn close. Both Grumio and Izatis answered all but one question correctly. Grumio entered the contest first...so help me congratulate him as the second place winner.
Grumio will be receiving a writing instrument from Montblanc's 100 years collection.
And of course please also congratulate Izatis who will be receiving a custom Montblanc Ipad cover from their leather collection.
As an interesting aside, here is the final distribution of the answers from all the entries combined. As proof of the PuristS concept of 1-7-8, our collective intellect answered all the questions correctly except for the first...and we weren't too far off on that one either!
Again please join me in congratulating the winners and help me give thanks to Montblanc for their immense generosity and support of PuristSPro.
Best, Mike
That was a particularly difficult contest, I have to say.
I agree that our winner and close winners deserve huge congratulations.
Well done, guys.
Best,
Nicolas
Thanks to PurisSPro and Montblanc for running this contest.
Great Contest
Very nice performance from our fellow purists,
Cheers.
Thrilling news!
Congrats!
Excellent contest!
The results speake for themselves and Thank you Montblanc for the challenge
The biggest worry was that no one would get all correct and put the "Purists" honor at stake.
So I thank Tick Talk for saving our honor and Grumio and Izatis for their contribution.
The second and third winners even though they had the same result were chosen based on the time of their response 2nd was earlier than 3rd. The final results was simple and straight forward.
Bill
Congratulations!
Very interesting contest indeed...
Bravo to the winners!
Congrats to the winners
Regards,
ED-209
Congrats to Tick Talk, grumio, and izatis!!
And thanks to Montblanc for this competition and the fabulous prizes!
Cheers,
Anthony
Any questions I can take forward?
A few congratulatory words from Mr. Alexander Schmiedt
Dear Purists,
Thanks for your great participation in this contest. But in fact, I have to thank
the Purist community for this. Because the first inspiration to do this contest came
from your very own ranks. I am regularly visiting Purist- and of course the MB
Forum. When I read KIHs post end August of Bartos presentation of the Bifrequence in
Tokio and saw how the discussion picked up on the "black box" and how the system
works, the idea of the contest came up. As for patent reasons we were only able to
disclose the mechanism on October 18 2012, timing for a contest in September also
seemed perfect.
As the discussion on the Tokio post went already really into rocket science, we on
purpose we wanted to make the contest really technical. Because we really wanted to
get participants involved in the beauty of the construction. So whom better to ask
to drawup the questions than our construction team in Villeret? And they delivered
on what we asked for- the questions were really, really technical!!
Honestly, sometimes in the middle of the contest I feared that we had been almost
overdoing it. Glad to see that we did not- and that Purists lived up to challenge.
So here is a big congratulation to the entire Purist community. You have taken up
this challenge and done very well. Shows the strength of this community and the
passion it brings to the world of watchmaking. We- the brands- should be very
grateful for having you as our supporters- and critics.
Of course my special congratulations go to izatis, grumio and tick talk as the
winners of the contest. You can be really proud of being on top of the "Purist
pyramid" in this contest. And I am very much looking forward to welcoming tick talk
in Villeret very soon.
All the best
Alexander Schmiedt
Congratulations to the winners, and a sincere thank you to Mr. Schmiedt and Mont Blanc
for their generosity in hosting this contest and prizes.
Go PuristS!
TM
Thank you for the contest Mr Schmiedt!
And hope to see you again in the near future. Sorry I couldn't make it to the Santa Monica dinner - had a family emergency to go to that day 
Cheers,
Anthony
Many thanks!
The closeness that the Montblanc team works with PuristSPro really benefits both the Montblanc brand and the very fortunate members of the PuristSPro community.
Many many thanks to Montblanc, Alexander Schmidt, and the whole team for hosting and organizing this momentous contest. We all look forward to the exciting developments at Montblanc, especially when it constitutes tour de force engineering such as the amazing technological watches within the TimeWriter series.