MB&F LM Perpetual Calendar

By Erik Gustafson | 28 March, 2024
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I know this looks like another insane Legacy Machine creation from Max & co, and it is. But it is also one of the most significant updates made to the perpetual calendar complication of the last century. This is ground-up, first principles thinking as applied to keeping track of days in months and leap years.…

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An MB&F LM1 PT Legacy Machine

By Erik Gustafson | 31 March, 2021
MB&F-LM1-PT-Legacy-Machine

The madness at MB&F had to peak somewhere. From 2005 until 2011 we as horology fanatics were treated to an ever-increasing series of ambitiously outrageous designs. In my estimation, this is the near-apex. The LM1 featured a flying central balance, one-off vertical power reserve, and two completely independent time zones. Max Büsser, Jean-François Mojon, and…

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