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| Jwlrymachine in purple |
MB&F, founded in 2005, is a small Swiss watch company that makes a limited number of elaborate and innovative wristwatches, known as “horological machines,” that are sold at astronomical prices. Their timepieces straddle the limits of modern-day engineering, architecture and technical mastery. What these watches lacked was a touch of beauty. That’s where Boucheron comes in.
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| HM3 Starcruiser |
In what may seem to some like an unlikely collaboration, the famed 152-year-old French jewelry house was asked to create a refined, bejeweled face for MB&F’s Horological Machine No.3 (HM3). The result is Jwlrymachine, a three-dimensional owl, available either in 18k white gold, with amethyst, diamonds and blue and violet sapphires, or in 18k red gold, with pink tourmaline, rose quartz, diamonds and pink sapphires.
The owl’s eyes are large glowing cabochons, set over the twin cones. Its sparkling wings, wrapped protectively around the HM3 engine, are made of pavé-set with brilliant-cut stones. Its feathered breast is sculpted and engraved from a single block of amethyst or rose quartz. The glowing eyes, sparkling wings and gleaming breast create a carefully choreographed play of light. Beneath the owl’s breast, its heart appears to be beating. The illusion is created by the faintly perceived swings of MB&F’s solid-gold battle-axe-shaped rotor beneath the translucent stone.
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| HM3 Movement |
Innovation has always been the hallmark of truly great luxury companies. But you already knew this.
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