Six years after the launch of the MB&F Starfleet Machine, the first clock co-created by MB&F and L’Epée 1839, a new expedition is underway. The space station returns in 2020, in a more compact size and enhanced with bright colors, accompanied by a fleet of three small spacecraft exploring the universe; it rightfully bears the name of Starfleet Explorer. Designed by MB&F, the Starfleet Explorer is an intergalactic spaceship table clock crafted by L’Epée 1839, the last remaining Swiss manufacture specialized in high-end table clocks.
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News: Presenting the MB&F HM10 Bulldog. Available in Titanium and Red Gold.
The relationship between man and watch is as nuanced as the one between man and dog. Therefore, MB&F has decided to launch a new timepiece to celebrate this relationship. The new MB&F HM10 Bulldog features a rounded, compact body of titanium or red gold, coupled with a generous ration of sapphire crystal. Two prominent aluminum time-display ‘eyes’, rolling at anyone who dares look its way. A collar studded with projections that allow you to wind the mainspring or set the time. Stout but flexible ‘legs’ that wrap firmly around your wrist. A massive jaw. And above all, a big heart beating steadily at 2.5Hz —18,000vph.
News: Presenting the MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT in Red Gold and in Platinum
First presented in March of 2019 as MB&F’s first ladies’ timepiece ever, the Legacy Machine FlyingT reappears with two brand new iterations, one in red gold and the other in platinum. A watch that took four years to develop when Max Büsser began thinking about making something inspired by the feminine influences in his life. Initially, the MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT was only available in three different versions…
News: MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual Yellow Gold. The Second MB&F Ever in this Metal.
In 15 years at MB&F, only one watch has ever been crafted from yellow gold and that was the LM101 Frost Yellow Gold until now. Today, five years later, the Legacy Machine Perpetual makes its appearance in Yellow Gold. First launched in 2015, the LM Perpetual series is one of MB&F’s best sellers with limited editions in white gold, red gold, platinum, and titanium. The vast majority of these variations are sold out; therefore, it was time to introduce a new 18k yellow gold case with a deep blue face, limited to just 25 pieces just like the rest of the previous iterations that were available with the same limitation with the exception of the titanium one which was available in a limited edition of 50 pieces.
Insider: MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome. Eric Coudray and Voutilainen Create the Most Impressive Triple Axis Tourbillon Ever.
When you combine the names MB&f, Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen in one project the result is simply out of this world. The new MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome is the first-ever collaboration between legends Eric Coudray and Kari Voutilainen and the birth of a totally new proprietary ‘TriAx’ tourbillon mechanism that features 3 axes revolving at different speeds and on different planes, in record-breaking 8 seconds, 12 seconds and 20 seconds. Additionally, the Legacy Machine Thunderdome offers the first-ever combination of Potter escapement, hemispherical balance, and helical hairspring.
News: Introducing the MB&F Legacy Machine 101 Palladium. An 18-Piece Limited Edition in 'Vert d'eau' Color.
The MB&F Legacy Machine 101 may be the most classic Legacy Machine, focusing on the essence of a mechanical wristwatch —hence the ‘101’ name— it is no less a Machine of firsts. When it was launched back in 2014, it housed the very first movement developed entirely in-house by MB&F. Today, the LM101 series inaugurates our very first piece in palladium, a rare silvery-white metal similar to platinum. And finally, the new palladium edition gets another first: a brand new color for the sunray dial plate, which varies between pale blue and green —a color best described in French as “vert d’eau”— sea green or aquamarine in English.
Insider: MB&F Horological Machine No. 7 Aquapod Platinum Red. The Sexiest Jellyfish Out There.
The MB&F Horological Machine No. 7 Aquapod was first released in titanium with a blue bezel and in 18K 5N red gold with black bezel back in 2017. A year after, a third version of the watch was presented in titanium but with a gorgeous bright green bezel. Inspired by a jellyfish and the ocean, the MB&F Horological Machine No. 7 conquers the confines of the ocean and plunges into the water. Right on time for the summer this year, a fourth version in platinum with a bright red bezel was added to the mix. The MB&F is available in a limited edition of 50 pieces in grade 5 titanium with green bezel, 33 in titanium with blue bezel, 66 in 18K 5N red gold and 25 pieces in platinum.
News: Presenting the MB&F + Loupe System Project LpX. The First Collaboration Between the Two.
If you’re a serious watch enthusiast, you have undoubtedly heard of Loupe System —quite simply the most advanced portable magnifying loupes in the world today. Loupe System has teamed up with MB&F to create Project LpX, an intergalactic magnification station enabling accurate viewing of watch movement details, while simultaneously reminding you of the immensity of our galaxy. Synchronous, forward-thinking imagination knows no boundaries.
News: MB&F Presents the T-Rex Clock in Collaboration with L’Epée 1839
At the beginning of July 2019, MB&F unveiled a Piece Unique called ‘Tom & T-Rex’ for the‘Only Watch’ auction. As explained at the time, it was the first example of a new series of clocks called ‘T-Rex’, which launches today. T-Rex is the eleventh co-creation between MB&F and expert clockmakers L’Epée 1839, who master the engineering and peerless manufacturing. To create the piece, Max Büsser worked with another Max, namely designer Maximilian Maertens who modeled the clock’s legs from actual Tyrannosaurus Rex bones.
News: Presenting the MB&F Legacy Machine No. 2 Red Gold Blue. Limited Edition of 12 Pieces.
Initially launched in 2013, the MB&F Legacy Machine No. 2 was only available in 18K white gold with dark grey dial, 18K rose gold with silver dial, a limited edition of 18 pieces in platinum with blue dial and in an 18-piece limited edition in titanium with its strikingly beautiful vivid blue greenish dial. Then, a fourth iteration of the MB&F LM2 was released last year 2018 in white gold with an unconventional purple dial. MB&F started using purple as far back as 2011 in their winding rotors on the HM3 Frog Zr, HM5 CarbonMacrolon and on the HM8 Only Watch. Today, six years later from its original launch and less than a year later after the release of the purple edition, MB&F presents the last edition ever of the Legacy Machine No. 2 in an 18K red gold case with a striking blue dial.
News: MB&F Tom & T-Rex Clock. A Collaboration with L'Epée 1839 for ONLY Watch Auction.
All previous MB&F Machines created for the ONLY Watch Auction up to date were unique pieces from existing collections that incorporated visual elements related to the auction. For this year’s ONLY Watch Auction, MB&F and L’Epée have teamed up yet again, to make an incredible clock never released before. The clock seeks to highlight the special nature of the auction. The unconventional, highly metaphorical table clock was created with a small sculpture of a young boy named Tom who represents the children living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy —the cause behind this auction and a degenerative disease that causes the gradual loss of basic motor functions, including the ability to walk. Tom rides a T-Rex friend, who carries him away into fantastical realms as a symbol of the hope offered by the ONLY Watch Auction to the children affected by the disease.
News: Introducing the new MB&F HM7 Aquapod Platinum Red. A 25-Piece Limited Edition.
Having captivated the world with its soaring tourbillon and perfect symmetries over the last two years, the jellyfish-inspired HM7 Aquapod emerges from the depths for a new outing in 2019, this time in the most precious of metals and an arresting new shade. Platinum, which sits at the apex of the hierarchy of noble watchmaking materials, makes its debut in HM7, its bright silvery white hue an emphatic counterpoint to the vividly crimson red unidirectional rotating bezel. Used for the first time in any MB&F creation, red is not a color that immediately comes to mind when thinking of marine life.
Insider: MB&F Legacy Machine Split Escapement Titanium Green. A Watch with an Incredibly Iridescent Dial.
First released in 2017, the MB&F Legacy Machine Split Escapement is now also available in grade 5 titanium, sporting a sun-ray CVD green dial and in a highly exclusive 33-piece limited edition. With an incredibly iridescent green dial that depending on lighting conditions appears blueish or even pinkish like a mother-of-pearl dial, the new MB&F Legacy Machine Split Escapement Titanium Green features a 14 mm wide balance that seems to oscillate on its own without any visible escapement wheel and anchor. Turning the watch over reveals the escapement and its components concealed almost 12 mm below, hence, the name ‘Split Escapement’.
Presenting: MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT. The First MB&F Ladies Timepiece Ever.
The unexpected and a very surprising move by MB&F when they shared with us what is their first ladies timepiece ever. The creative process behind the just released MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT started four years ago, when Maximilian Büsser began thinking about making something inspired by the feminine influences in his life. “I created MB&F to do what I believe in, making three-dimensional sculptural kinetic art pieces that give the time. But at some point there came a desire to create something for the women in my family. I’ve been surrounded by their influence all my life, so I gave myself the challenge to do something for them” says Büsser. “The last thing I wanted to do, was to take a masculine timepiece, resize it, put a different color on it and call it a ladies’ watch.”
Insider: MB&F Medusa Clock in Collaboration with L'Epée 1839. The Horological Jelly Fish.
The tenth collaboration with Switzerland’s premier clockmaker L’Epée 1839 and a clock where MB&F plunges into warm ocean waters to create the Medusa, a dual-configuration clock, housed in hand-blown Murano glass, that can be ceiling mounted or stood upon a desk. With its central mass formed by a large transparent dome of hand-blown Murano glass that evokes the bell-shaped body of a mature jellyfish. Two rotating rings, one displaying the hours and the other displaying the minutes, are visible through the dome, and the time is read off a single fixed indicator that extends over the rings. Like a jellyfish glowing in the abyss, Medusa glows in the dark thanks to superluminova. A 2.5Hz —18,000vph— mechanical movement beats underneath the time indication, forming the pulsating heart of this mechanical creature.
SIHH 2019: MB&F Horological Machine No. 6 Space Pirate Final Edition. Live Pictures & Pricing.
We brought you the news before the SIHH 2019 about the new MB&F Horological Machine No. 6 Space Pirate Final Edition but there’s no real feature unless it’s accompanied by some of our live macro pictures. Therefore, here we go again. Originally released at the end of 2014, the Horological Machine No.6 —HM6 Space Pirate— came out with an announcement that MB&F would manufacture only 100 movements in total for this watch. The HM6 was first launched in titanium in a limited edition of 50 pieces, followed by 18 pieces in rose gold and then two 10-piece SV/Sapphire Vision editions, one in platinum and the other in rose gold. In 2017, four unique pieces were presented as the ‘Alien Nation’ crafted entirely in sapphire crystal, each with its crew of miniature aliens. Today, the HM6 Final Edition comes in a highly exclusive 8-piece limited edition in stainless steel.
SIHH 2019: MB&F Medusa Clock in Collaboration with L'Epée 1839
In what is now the tenth collaboration with Switzerland’s premier clockmaker, L’Epée 1839, MB&F plunges into warm ocean waters where the beautiful and ancient jellyfish proliferate. Medusa is a dual-configuration clock, housed in hand-blown Murano glass, that can be ceiling mounted or stood upon a desk. In the form of one of the most compelling yet mysterious creatures of the sea, Medusa blends exceptional artisanal skill with Swiss horological precision, and introduces new frontiers in both. The central mass of the MB&F Medusa is formed by a large transparent dome of hand-blown Murano glass that evokes the bell-shaped body of a mature jellyfish.
Pre-SIHH 2019: MB&F Horological Machine No. 6 Space Pirate Final Edition. An 8-Piece Limited Edition in Stainless Steel.
Back in November 2014, when MB&F launched the Horological Machine No.6 —HM6 Space Pirate— they announced they would manufacture only 100 movements in total of this watch. Today, less than a week from the SIHH 2019 —Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie Genève— they are presenting the HM6 Final Edition. The MB&F Horological Machine No. 6 Space Pirate was first launched in titanium in a limited edition of 50 pieces, followed by 18 pieces in rose gold and then two 10-piece SV/Sapphire Vision editions, one in platinum and the other in rose gold. Then in 2017, four unique pieces were presented as the ‘Alien Nation’ crafted entirely in sapphire crystal, each with its crew of miniature aliens.
Eye Candy: MB&F Legacy Machine No. 1 Platinum. Avant-garde Design Combined with Traditional Watchmaking Principles.
After the successful launch of the Legacy Machine No. 1 in white gold and red gold came the LM1 platinum in a limited edition of 33 pieces more than four years ago. A wild, extreme, outrageous, unrestrained timepiece with a traditional and classical round shape. With its monumental central balance; completely independent dual time zones and unique vertical power reserve indicator the MB&F Legacy Machine No. 1 —LM1— is a watch that combines the most avant-garde design with the most traditional watchmaking principles and finishing. But above all, an authentic three-dimensional MB&F Machine like no other.
Insider: MB&F Horological Machine No. 9 'Flow'. Hands-on with a Crazy Awesome Looking Timepiece.
Released at the end of September 2018, the new MB&F HM9 Flow in two limited editions of 33 pieces each was conceptualized by Max Büsser and designed by mastermind Eric Giroud. With Guillaume Thévenin who developed the movement, Camile Fournet who worked on the strap and Jean-François Mojon who collaborated on the precision turning of wheels, pinions and axes, amongst others, the HM9 Flow is heavily influenced and inspired by the aerodynamic DNA of the late 40s and 50s automotive design as well as by mid-century aviation design.
