At the Haute Time headquarters in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, we had the opportunity to get a detailed look at the new and very unique MB&F HM5. Charris Yadigaroglou, chief communications office for MB&F, says of the piece, “Like all of our machines, we start from an idea. We don’t start from the movement, like most […]

In business for only seven years, Swiss watchmaker HM&F has set out to distinguish itself from its centuries-old competitors with radical designs. Calling his watches “Horological Machines,” founder Maximilian Büsser regards his creation as living sculptures, whose time-telling capabilities are second to their aesthetic concepts. The latest living sculpture is its HM3 Frog Watch, named […]

To say that the ZR012 is complex is an understatement. This experimental piece, of which only 12 will be produced, is made with nitroglycerin (read: the active ingredient in dynamite). It took Urwerk’s Felix Baumgartner and Martin Frei (the men who created the movement); MB&F’s Max Büsser and Serge Kriknoff; and Eric Giroud to create […]

A glance at Frank Buchwald’s Machine Lights shows a dozen mechanical lamps. A second look reveals a dynamic aspect reminiscent of science fiction elements. A third look discredits the previous and ends in an astounded remark: it’s art. The Maximilian Büsser & Friends (MB&F) Mechanical Art Devices (M.A.D.) Gallery hosts this set of lamps scrupulously crafted […]