Over the past 15 years, MB&F creations have transported their wearers to destinations that exist only on maps of the imagination: from star-cruisers to deep-sea jellyfish, Maximilian Büsser’s Machines are the mechanical cartographers of the multiverse. But the greatest journey has yet to be undertaken, and true progress is marked by evolution as the brand presents the new Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO.
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News: MB&F LM Split Escapement 'Eddy Jaquet' Unique Pieces Inspired by Jules Verne's Novels
In the course of its 15-year history, MB&F has partnered with some of the most talented watchmakers of our generation including Kari Voutilainen, Eric Coudray, Stephen McDonnell, Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, and Stepan Sarpaneva, just to name a few. Designers and artists as well, from long-time collaborator Eric Giroud and the iconoclastic Alain Silberstein to sculptor Xia Hang and contemporary painter Sage Vaughn. Now, for the first time, MB&F is putting the work of a traditional artisan in the spotlight, with the LM Split Escapement ‘Eddy Jaquet’ Limited Edition: a series of eight unique pieces featuring the extraordinary imagination and skill of the well-known engraver in depicting the novels of Jules Verne.
News: MB&F Tripod by L’Épée 1839
Three legs; three-sector dial; three insect-like eyes; three-layered movement; three protective shields; three limited editions in yet another amazing collaboration between MB&F and Switzerland’s oldest and most acclaimed clock maker L’Épée 1839. The new MB&F Tripod comprises a minimalist clock face suspended between three delicate insect-like legs. It follows the mighty T-Rex in what will become a trilogy of half-animal/half-robot creations that MB&F calls Robocreatures.
News: MB&F Launches New E-Commerce to Sell Watches, Clocks, and Goodies from their M.A.D. Gallery
The last few months have been challenging, forcing companies across all sectors to rethink their business models. At MB&F this involved finding new ways to stay close to clients without being physically present since 24 out of their 27 points of sale were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Offering customers an e-commerce option has become an essential part of the mix but they are doing that with a twist. Today, MB&F has announced its new e-commerce concept.
News: Presenting the MB&F x H. Moser LM 101 and the H. Moser x MB&F Endeavour Cylindrical Tourbillon
In this crowning expression of the ties binding H. Moser & Cie. and MB&F for more than ten years, Edouard Meylan and Maximilian Büsser have composed a duet recital in the form of an exceptional concerto for devotees of fine watchmaking. For the first time in its history, MB&F is contributing to a Performance Art endeavor flowing in both directions in an entirely reciprocal manner.
News: Presenting the MB&F L'Epée Starfleet Explorer Clock
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.
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.
