Reading Time: 10 minutes The Legacy Machine FlyingT was our first-ever Machine dedicated to women – a first that was rewarded by a very warm welcome from the watchmaking world, including the prize for Best Ladies’ Complication at the 2019 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. The launch versions in 18k white gold were joined lastContinue Reading
Reading Time: 10 minutes The MB&F Legacy Machine 101 (LM101) series was first launched in 2014. As suggested by its “101” name, it focuses on the essentials of a mechanical wristwatch, contained in one of MB&F’s most compact Machines with a case diameter of 40mm. At the time, the LM101 movement was also the firstContinue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutes In October 2011, people thought they knew what MB&F stood for. Four Horological Machines had been launched, each one more audacious than the last. MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser decided it was time to do something different – again. How does one go about disrupting a habit of iconoclasm? By turningContinue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutes First presented in 2018, Horological Machine N°9 – nicknamed HM9 ‘Flow’ – was a tribute to the extraordinary automotive and aeronautic designs of the 1940s and 50s. The result was a case like no other that echoed the epoch’s flowing, aerodynamic lines. Despite its striking external appearance, MB&F founder Maximilian BüsserContinue Reading
Reading Time: 8 minutes Springtime 2020, MB&F launches its tenth horological machine. The new machine comes in a very unexpected form, reminding both of a dog and a car. How could this be possible? “The creative adult is a child who has survived” (Rita J. King). So today we are not talking about theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutes Since the first announcement of the LM FlyingT, I was concquered by it. After publishing the release here, I wanted, or better said, it was mandatory for me to get my hand on the MB&F’s first ladies watch. Last spring, the chance smilled to me and I was able toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes MB&F continues the anniversary series with a new surprise. The original prototype of the Horological Machine N°4 was taken back to the light and transformed in the HM4 ‘Kittyhawk’. Please find all the details int he official press release below.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the nice surprises of GPHG 2020 was the Endeavour Cylindrical Tourbillon H. Moser X MB&F as the winner of the Audacity Prize. Even now, a day later I am still thrilled about this result. Because H. Moser X MB&F Endeavour Cylindrical Tourbillon and MB&F X Moser LM101 areContinue Reading
Reading Time: 9 minutes In 2009, MB&F was four years into its creative expression of mechanical art. Horological Machines N°1 and N°2 had established the guiding principles of the Maximilian Büsser & Friends collective: audacious design, transformative micromechanics, untrammelled imagination. Then came Horological Machine N°3; HM3 had everything that HM1 and HM2 had beforeContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes MB&F just released the LM Perpetual EVO, a Legacy Machine to fit an active lifestyle. Not one, but three dial versions were launched: a full black version, a more “expected” blue, and a fun, sporty and daring orange. Let’s have a look at all variants.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 10 minutes 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 byContinue Reading