Live Auction 12578Important Watches Including NAUTILUS 40 Part III
MB&F. A FINE AND RARE 18K PINK GOLD WRISTWATCH WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOVEMENT
Lot 2817 Since its inception in 2005, MB&F is well known for uniting traditional watchmaking of the highest craftsmanship with futuristic and highly unconventional designs. Heavily influenced by the founder Maximilian Büsser’s childhood vision of a science fiction world, these “Machines” continues to challenge the world of watchmaking with each new release. When MB&F presented their Legacy Machine No. 1/ LM1 in 2011, watch collectors were most surprised by the new creation; unlike the previous timepieces, this watch was given MB&F’s very first classical round case! With Maximilian Büsser joining forces with Jean-François Mojon and Kari Voutilainen, the concept behind LM1 was to imagine the type of timepiece they would have created had the company existed 100 years ago, thus paying tribute to horological traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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MB&F. A FINE AND RARE 18K PINK GOLD WRISTWATCH WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOVEMENT

SIGNED MB&F AND KARI VOUTILAINEN, LEGACY MACHINE N°101 MODEL, CASE NO. 51R12512, CIRCA 2014

Closed28 November 2016

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HKD 400,000

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MB&F. A FINE AND RARE 18K PINK GOLD WRISTWATCH WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOVEMENT
SIGNED MB&F AND KARI VOUTILAINEN, LEGACY MACHINE N°101 MODEL, CASE NO. 51R12512, CIRCA 2014
MOVEMENT: Manual, Cal. LM101, 23 jewels
DIAL: Silvered, two white lacquered subsidiary dials for time display and seconds, Roman numerals, floating bespoke balance wheel with four traditional regulating screws
CASE: 18k pink gold, high domed sapphire crystal, glazed display back secured by eight screws, 40 mm. diam.
STRAP/BUCKLE: Unsigned embossed strap, 18k pink gold MB&F buckle
ACCOMPANIED BY: MB&F fitted presentation box and outer packaging. Furthermore delivered with a Free Full Service & One Year Warranty Voucher from MB&F.

Specialist note

In 2014, MB&F introduced Legacy Machine No. 101/LM101 to the market. The new model with its smaller 40 mm. diameter case, boasts the same floating balance wheel and three-dimensional layering of the dial of LM1. The watch’s originality actually lies in its embodiment of simplicity and the creators’ wish to reduce the wristwatch to its bare essentials of balance wheel and time display. In fact, the most special feature this model is invisible: it houses an entirely new caliber, the movement developed entirely in-house by MB&F.