Maximilian Büsser never said that MB&F would never make a chronograph. What he did say, however, is that “MB&F would never make a chronograph like all the other chronographs out there.” And so, after 17 years, MB&F is introducing Legacy Machine Sequential EVO, its first chronograph and simultaneously MB&F?s 20th movement. Developed by one of the very earliest MB&F collaborators and Friends, Stephen McDonnell, one of the handful of watchmakers who assembled the first few movements for what would become Horological Machine N°1.

The dial plate of the LM Sequential EVO, available in atomic orange or coal black, features two chronograph displays: One has its seconds display at 9 o?clock and minutes display at 11 o?clock. The other has its seconds display at 3 o?clock and minutes display at 1 o?clock. Each of these chronograph displays can be started, stopped, and reset completely independently of each other, using the start/stop and reset pushers on their respective sides of the case. These make up the four chronograph pushers you would usually associate with having two chronograph mechanisms in one watch.
However, there is a fifth pusher, located at the 9 o?clock position: the ?Twinverter?. This pusher elevates the functionality of the LM Sequential EVO beyond any existing chronograph wristwatch. It controls both chronograph systems, operating as a binary switch that inverts the current start/stop status of each chronograph. This ...