Since its introduction in 2015 ? and subsequent award for Best Calendar Watch at the 2016 GPHG ? MB&F’s Legacy Machine (LM) Perpetual has run the gamut of case materials in its various incarnations, all of them very limited in number ? rose gold, white gold, platinum, and titanium. For the latest, founder Max Büsser (the “MB”) and his talented team of “friends” (the “F”) have turned to a more classical precious metal, 18k yellow gold, pairing it with an of-the-moment blue dial for the latest 25-piece limited edition of the LM Perpetual.
The MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual is now offered in yellow gold.
The manual-winding caliber features an array of high-horology finishes.
Designed and developed in cooperation with Irish independent watchmaker Stephen McDonnell, the Legacy Machine Perpetual not only boasts a high-complication movement built entirely from the ground up ? no base caliber, no module ? but also puts its revolutionary design on full display on the dial side, ensconced beneath a large suspended balance. The manually wound, 581-part caliber in the LM Perpetual differs from traditional perpetual calendar movements in a few significant respects. Instead of using a 31-day month as the “default” and fast-forwarding through the unnecessary days in the shorter months, as is the common system, it uses a default 28-day month (as in a non-leap-year February) and adds extra days as required, thus no skipping ahead...