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Independent brand (collaborative)

MB&F

Also recorded as: MB & F · MBandF · Maximilian Büsser & Friends · Maximilian Busser & Friends

Maximilian Büsser's Geneva 'friends' collective, making sculptural Horological Machines and more classical Legacy Machines.

Maximilian Büsser had run Harry Winston's watch division, where he started the Opus series of collaborations with independent watchmakers. In 2005 he founded MB&F — Maximilian Büsser & Friends — to make watches with small groups of outside designers and watchmakers, credited by name.

Horological Machine No. 1 appeared in 2007, and the series has since taken the forms of spacecraft, jellyfish and racing cars. The Legacy Machines, from 2011, place a large balance above a round dial in a nineteenth-century spirit; the first was developed with Kari Voutilainen and Jean-François Mojon. MB&F's M.A.D.Gallery shows mechanical art by other makers.

Country: Switzerland
City / centre: Geneva
Founded: 2005
Status: Active (independent)
Key people: Maximilian Büsser (founder)

Innovations & specialities

Horological Machines (from 2007)
Legacy Machines with a suspended balance (from 2011)
Credited collaborations with independent makers

Timeline

2005MB&F founded in Geneva
2007Horological Machine No. 1
2011Legacy Machine No. 1; M.A.D.Gallery opens

Works by MB&F in the catalogue

All 13 records →