If you?re a watch fan who admires the work of Max Büsser and his team at MB&F, but never seem to have the requisite cash on hand to purchase the latest Legacy or Horological Machine (I think that covers at least 99% of us), a new offering from the M.A.D. Gallery will almost certainly be of interest. MB&F: The First Fifteen Years is a new hard bound 312 page ?catalog raissonè? chronicling every watch and every movement the brand has produced up to 2020. If you?re restricted to admiring MB&F from afar, this book might get you just a little bit closer. 

A catalog raissonè (a ?critical catalog?) is a term used in the art world for a volume that collects all of the work by a single artist in one place, with annotations thorough enough to stand up to academic rigor (these books are used by art historians, dealers, and collectors to determine the authenticity of a piece and deepen their study of an artist). Accordingly, The First Fifteen Years documents not just every watch released by the brand between 2005 and 2020, but gets into granular detail on prototypes and pieces that have previously not been announced publicly. In addition to the high quality photography you?d expect, the book is loaded with details like exact numbers produced for each reference, years of production, and all relevant variants to case metal and dial configurations. It should be a valuable resource for serious MB&F collectors, as well as a compelling thing to simply flip throu...