MB&F has just released a new timepiece that was three years in the making: the Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt. Inspired by founder Max Busser’s childhood love of model airplanes, the HM4 takes an aeronautic (and perhaps astro-nautic?) approach to luxury watch design. The casing is made of titanium and sapphire, and it takes over 210 hours for these materials to be properly machined and polished. The watch’s engine is 311 pieces and was exhibited for the first time at Basel in March. Considered by MB&F to be the most complex watch in the company’s history, the HM4 is a tribute to MBF’s devotion to combining art and watch making (and, we think, the Millennium Falcon).
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