MB&F has unveiled the Horological Machine No.11 ‘Architect’, a brand new timepiece impressed by the structure of the Sixties and Seventies.
Powered by a very new motion, the twenty first from the Swiss watchmaker, the HM11 Architect is constructed like a home, with 4 rooms, every of them that includes a special perform.
The extremely advanced case (42 mm diameter x 23 mm top) is fabricated from titanium partitions and a sapphire double-domed roof. The whole construction rotates on its foundations to ship energy on to the barrel.
A central flying tourbillon, beating at a frequency of two.5Hz (18,000 vibrations per hour), kinds the center of the home. From this spinning core, 4 symmetrical volumes attain outwards, creating the 4 parabolic rooms of the home that’s HM11 Architect.
Plates and bridges are colored with a bodily vapour deposition (PVD) course of, coming in ozone blue or the nice and cozy photo voltaic hues of 5N gold, restricted to 25 items every for the 2 launch editions of HM11.
The whole construction rotates on its foundations. The 90° angle of offset between every room means that you would be able to place HM11 with one in every of its rooms straight going through you or with one of many corridors of the home working in the direction of you and rooms obliquely to every facet. This versatility in show orientation additionally has a sensible use.
HM11 Architect is an energy-efficient building. Every 45° clockwise flip is signalled by a tactile click on beneath the fingers and delivers 72 minutes of energy on to the barrel. After 10 full rotations, HM11 is at its most autonomy of 96 hours.
Whereas all 4 rooms share an identical inside — shiny white partitions with a full sapphire crystal window pane — every has a special perform.
The time room is the place you go to retrieve the hours and minutes. Rod-mounted orbs function hour markers, utilizing bigger and lighter polished aluminium orbs for every quarter and smaller and darker polished titanium orbs for the remaining. Pink-tipped arrows level to the hours and minutes.
The following room, 90° to the left, is the place the ability reserve show resides. Following the design schema established by the point room, rod-mounted orbs are paired with a red-tipped arrow to point out how a lot working autonomy is left within the HM11 barrel. Continuing clockwise, the 5 orbs improve in diameter till the ultimate polished aluminium orb, 2.4 mm in diameter, indicating the total 96 hours of energy reserve.
An instrument not often seen in horological contexts is put in within the subsequent room — a thermometer. HM11 makes use of a mechanical system of temperature indication with a bimetallic strip, which can appear quaint on this age of instantaneous high-precision digital thermometers and thermostat-regulated sensible properties. This mechanical system features with none exterior power enter and is obtainable in Celsius or Fahrenheit show variations.
The final room encompasses a tiny spherical badge engraved with the MB&F battle-axe motif, set into the sapphire-crystal window that provides an unimpeded view straight into the motion. That is the time-setting crown of HM11. Near 10 mm in diameter, it opens with a click on.
To guard the watch from mud and water, two units of gaskets are used. Towards the outer fringe of the watch, a big low-friction gasket creates simply sufficient of a seal to cease mud from coming into through the sapphire-crystal window. A watertight gasket, a lot smaller in diameter, is positioned nearer to the centre of the motion, surrounding the crown axis. A complete of 8 gaskets are devoted to the sapphire crown alone.
Making certain the integrity of the case and the motion inside are a complete of 19 gaskets, necessitated by the complexity of the case and its varied exterior elements. The most important gasket utilized in HM11 Architect is of O-ring building, formed in all three dimensions and positioned between the case and the bezel. Water resistance is assured as much as a strain of two ATM (20 metres / 33 ft).
Whereas the peripheral rooms of HM11 are surrounded by exterior partitions of polished grade-5 titanium, the central atrium is open to the sunshine, coated by a double-arched sapphire crystal roof.
Paired with a white or khaki inexperienced rubber strap, the MB&F Horological Machine No.11 ‘Architect’ is priced atCHF 198,000 / Euro 207,000 / US$ 230,000 earlier than taxes. mbandf.com
