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If you’ve been keeping up with watchmaker MB&F you’ll be familiar with their Horological Machine series, watches that are similar in construction but wildly different when it comes to design.…

The Horological Machine 9 puts a rocket on your wrist

If and when your crypto investments go back up feel free to spend about $100,000 on one of these new creations from the watchmakers at MB&F and noted horologist Stepan…

The MB&F MoonMachine 2 reconnects you with the celestial

Fine timepieces are usually staid affairs. A little gold here, some enamel here, and a nice movement are enough to please some of us but it’s clear that a minority…

The MB&F HM6 Alien Nation will attack your block

Long dedicated to space, spiders, and robots, MB&F has finally come back to earth with the Horological Machine 8, a new watch inspired by the silhouette of Can-Am race cars.…

MB&F unveils the racing-inspired Horological Machine 8

Today in Part 23 of our series entitled Goofy Rich-Person Gadgetry, we present the MB&F Balthazar, a posable robot that tells the time and has a “dark side.” First, a…

Glitzy watch manufacturer MB&F announces the Balthazar clockwork robot

Everyone’s favorite crazy watch maker, MB&F, has just announced a new model, the so-called Arachnophobia. This wild clock hides a L’Epée 1839 movement in the thorax and abdomen of an…

The MB&F Arachnophobia Tells Time Through Fear

As we approach Peak Star Wars at last week’s Comic-Con, I’d like to present something so inexplicable yet potentially beguiling that it seems on the verge of exploding into a…

The MB&F MusicMachine 3 Is A Rich Nerd’s Dream

Arrr! Here be space pirates and where there are space pirates there is need of a $230,000 mechanical watch. Wild watch makers MB&F have just announced their MB&F HM6, a…

Ahoy, Space Pirates, Spend Your Booty On This Crazy Watch

If you’re into drooling over watches that you’ll likely never be able to afford (and I am), then you’ll probably recognize the name MB&F (Max Busser & Friends). The boutique…

MB&F’s New Lamborghini-Inspired Watch Is Beautiful, And ‘Relatively’ Affordable (But Still $63K)
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The MB&F HM3 Goes To The Moon

6:22 pm PDT • May 6, 2012

No self-respecting gadget lover can deny that MB&F’s very high-end artistic wrist machines are overall cool. Most of us can’t afford them, but items like this certain stir our ambitious…

The MB&F HM3 Goes To The Moon

I got to sit down with Steve Hallock, the North American president of MB&F and driving force behind the Swiss watch brand’s western expansion. The watch he brought for us…

As you’ll recall, I’m a big watch fan and a bigger MB&F fan although I am quite pleased I don’t own one of these $77,000+ monstrosities. These watches are for…

MB&F Introduces The Legacy Machine Number 1

The MB&F MH4 looks like a pair of jet engines roaring off your wrist and costs about as much as the fuel needed to power one of those jet engines…

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MB&F HM3 Frog Zr Watch

11:54 am PDT • May 10, 2011

Behold the HM3 Frog Zr, aka “Black Frog,” the newest highly limited watch from MB&F – there will only be 18 pieces. Unless I am mistaken, this is the first…

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MB&F HM2 SV Final Edition Watches Hands-On

8:34 am PST • February 17, 2011

The original HM2 SV was limited to only 25 pieces. That is a really low amount given how popular the watch was – and it was popular for good reason.…

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MB&F HM2 Final Edition Watches

8:51 am PST • January 11, 2011

The MB&F Horological Machine Number 2 has enjoyed a really rich life. The ‘wrist rectangle’ is now going into its final limited edition production with two new models. These are…

As part of high-end watch forum ThePuristS.com’s 10th anniversary, MB&F will offer a (more) limited edition version of their Horological Machine No. 3 “The Frog” watch called “The Chocolate Frog.”…

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MB&F HM3 JwlryMachine Watch

7:01 am PDT • October 5, 2010

For the final exciting iteration of the Horological Machine No. 3, MB&F has partnered with world-renowned Boucheron to create the JwlryMachine. Swiss MB&F who celebrates the art of the machine…

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MB&F Horological Machine 3 Watch Review

7:23 am PDT • September 14, 2010

This watch won’t stop looking at me! I am used to being the one looking at a watch. To many people the ability to tote around an MB&F is a…

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MB&F HM4 Thunderbolt Watch Hands-On

8:35 am PDT • August 6, 2010

Max Busser, founder of MB&F, remarks that the HM4 is the most legible MB&F watch yet. He is actually quite right. It is the only Horological machine with a traditional…

Just in time to make the HM3 I wore obsolete, MB&F has just announced the HM4 Thunderbolt, a unique “aviation-inspired” piece that is just about the coolest thing ever.

In the literature of watch geekdom we often bump up against watches that cost well into the six figures, some even in the seven. I take a populist stance on…

So this is just the inner heart of a new watch movement by makers of the Horological Machine series of watches. That’s right: this thing that looks like an Interceptor…