MB&F and Sarpaneva Join Forces for the MoonMachine 2
SIHH 2018 is finished. Kaput. Done for. That doesn’t mean that we still don’t have plenty of new watches to discuss. One of the most interesting collaborations we saw last week in Geneva was between MB&F and Sarpaneva. MB&F, as you probably know, is one of the world’s foremost producers of avant-garde timepieces. However, Sarpaneva is a brand that you might not be familiar with. The brand is run by Stepan Sarpaneva, a Finnish watchmaker with a bit of a thing for moon phase displays. This is the second lunar-focused collaboration between the two independent brands, joining the original MoonMachine from 2012.
Sarpaneva, who previously worked with brands such as Piaget and Parmigiani Fleurier, and with watchmakers like Vianney Halter and Christophe Claret, before starting his own brand in 2003, has become known for three signature themes: moon-phase indicators with distinctive, expressive ?faces,? based on his own face, engraved on the moon; the use of stars and constellations from the northern sky of his native Finland; and the use of a crenellated case shape that he refers to as ?Korona.? What makes the MoonMachine 2 unique compared to Sarpaneva’s previous watches is that rather than a traditional engraved moon phase indicator, it has the world’s first projected moon phase display. This projection is made possible through an optical prism, which refracts the hours, minutes, and moon discs in their flat positions so they appear perpendicu...
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