EDITORS CHOICE... MBandF HOROLOGICAL MACHINE 2: While there are a few exceptional watch designers and makers establishing themselves in the crazy-concept, crazy-price arena, MB and F is one of the most interesting, in that it takes a kind of pop approach to seriously technical workmanship. The brands creator and maker Max Busser (who shook up Harry Winstons horological division before branching out on his own), admits to being a Japanese cartoon fan and refers to his watches as machines. This year marked the final editions of MB&Fs radical Horological Machine N?2, ensuring that the models will be ever collector worthy. The company describes it as a holistically conceived and engineered three-dimensional timekeeping machine. Its complications give you some idea that, behind all the posturing, Busser and his friends (MB and F stands for Max Busser and Friends) are expert designers and technicians. HM2 was the worlds first mechanical movement to offer retrograde date, instantaneous jumping hour, concentric retrograde minutes, bi-hemisphere moon phase and automatic winding. Both of the two final limited-editions of 18 pieces each, labelled Sapphire Visions, feature sapphire case top sections, one version with black titanium case back and one with a red gold case back.
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