The Orbis Terrarum has been redesigned to slip into Montblanc’s more formal Star Legacy range. Image Credit: Supplied Montblanc has updated its worldtimer watch, the Orbis Terrarum for 2020.

A 1658 map of Iceland, reprinted from Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, includes a sea monster known for catching its fish through cunning. Public Domain The creature was enormous ...

An ichthyocentaur (parts human, horse and fish) plays a viol on a map of Scandinavia from the 1573 edition of Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarum. The sea surrounding Scandinavia showed sailing ...

While the new Star Legacy Orbis Terrarum offers a luxurious dress watch feel and impressive functionality, it will only set you back $7,000. The model is available today on Montblanc’s website ...

The new-for-2022 Star Legacy Orbis Terrarum features a revamped black and grey dial with rose gold-coated continents and meridians, a warm new colour scheme that Montblanc says was created for ...

The map dial is a feature traditionally associated with world time watches — in this case, it corresponds to 24 city that the user can rotate via the 8 o’clock pusher. The time is then easily read in ...

Celebrating the anniversary of the world’s first atlas, Google honored Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius with a Doodle on Sunday. His famed work, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or Theatre of the ...