MB&F “Legacy Machine FlyingT” – Baselworld 2019

by Abdon FLORES

Another year and another breathtaking timepiece by Maximilian Büsser and Friends (MB&F). For this Baselworld edition, the so called horological laboratory is releasing the Legacy Machine FlyingT, an astonishing artifact that recalls an UFO but whose purpose is not traveling across time but telling time.

This women’s watch is a three-dimensional creation, with a steeply cambered bezel and slender, beveled lugs on a round case that is fully set with diamonds. The high, convex domed sapphire crystal hovers over a curved dial plate. An asymmetric opening frames a raised flying tourbillon escapement, the carriage of which is topped by a single large diamond. A dial of white or black lacquer with blued gold hands sits on a 50° tilt at the 7 o’clock position.

 

 

It has a mechanical automatic MB&F flying 60-second tourbillon, sun-motif rotor made of 18k gold, titanium and platinum, 18,000 vph, and a 100-hour power reserve. The watch is set with either round-brilliant (168 o 558 stones) or baguette diamonds (294 stones). The case is made of 18k white gold, high domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides and a sapphire crystal on back. Limited edition, of course.