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MB&F Horological Machine No.2 Pictorial Essay from PuristSPro's Nov. 9th MB&F LA event

By: AnthonyTsai (registered) Saturday, November 10th, 2007 - Photo Nav: View All 21 photo(s)

Last night PuristSPro welcomed Max Busser to Southern California for his debut of MB&F's Horological Machine #2, and here are some pictures of the machine itself!  Write-up of the event will be posted soon.

Cheers,
Anthony

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MB&F Horological Machine No.2 Pictorial Essay

Pictures of Dial

  
Max Busser & Friends Horological Machine No. 2 in red gold w/ titanium back

  
Left porthole is the bi-hemisphere moon phase & retrograde date

  
Right porthole is the time - jumping hours & concentric retrograde minutes

Wrist Shots

 
HM#2 looks great as a dress watch

  
HM#2 can easily fit small wrists - 59mm x 39mm x 13mm

Different Parts of the Watch

  
Pusher for the moonphase

  
Allen wrench type screws

  
Pull-out crown w/ 2 notches

  
Hand finished mirror-polished surfaces and bevelling of the MB&F plate and portholes

  
Upper part of the case is rose gold and lower is titanium so watch isn't too heavy

  
Another view of the personalized crown & satin finishing on the case

Back of HM#2

 
Flying buttresses on the back

 
MB&F's iconic double Hakken automatic 22k rotor


Movement shots

  
Movement is a Girard Perregaux base w/ Aghenor custom module

  
Top side of the movement

  
Doesn't the movement look skull and bones?

  
Movement consists of 349 components

  
Asymemetrical-split-tooth gear design


Deployant Clasp

  
Black hand stitched alligator strap w/ deployant buckle

  
Personalized titanium deployant clasp

  
Bi-fold design of deployant clasp

For VIDEOS of the Horological Machine No. 2 CLICK HERE 

For official specs of the watch CLICK HERE  

For original thread in PuristSPro's AHCI and independent haute horlogerie forum CLICK HERE